Sentences with phrase «edge of the painting»

Or, our living room could use some love - 12 ft ceilings and I am afraid of heights - top edges of the paint job don't look to pretty.

It too includes a tire, in this case connected to the lower edge of the painting but also resting on the floor.

Paintings are sometimes hung at an oblique angle to the floor or with the bottom edge of a painting positioned at eye level on the wall.

With great focused strength and sharp edge of paint application executed alongside the subtlest and most gentle gradations of color and light, he creates the atmosphere of his beguiling compositions.

However, what stands out most about Pax is the tension between the carefully controlled edges of the painted frame juxtaposed with the expressive marks of the center composition.

It's a worthy honor for the abstract painter, who imbues his often monumental canvases with both pointed social commentary and a variety of collaged materials as he continues to break down the hard edges of the painted grid.

With a grand use of white space dominating the work, one can't help but feel the push and pull — of the artist's intention and of the suggested action beyond the physical edge of the painting.

While «formulaic,» something I railed against in the late 1960's and early 1970's Minimalist - Conceptual art world, I find the process surprisingly interesting, particularly passing it through the filter of non-taped edges of the painted form.

«While «formulaic,» something I railed against in the late 1960's and early 1970's Minimalist - Conceptual dominated art world, I find the process surprisingly interesting, particularly passing it through the filter of non-taped edges of the painted form.

Once by the edges of the pool, twice by the surface of the water, and thrice by the actual edges of each painting.

Barely perceptible traces of the paint linger on the exposed canvas, but especially at the slightly ragged edge of the painted surface.

Bee enjoys the way the soft outer edges of the paintings feel optically; which enhances the mysterious effect produced by her oil paintings.

While the paint is still thoroughly wet, a brush loaded with black oil paint is dragged horizontally in a straight line from the top left edge of the painting almost to its right edge.

In his acrylic 1961 Untitled (72» x 38»), Boardman places his shapes at the bottom of the rectangular canvas, interacting with both the space above and the actual bottom edge of the painting.

It's through works like Homage to the Square — works that existed over a long period of time, adapting to the ever - changing environment in which they were conceived — that the sharp edges of a painting, of a poem, of a dancing body, became smoother, if not legible.

And Peter uses a fresh take on classic landscape painting by overlaying soft and hard edges of paint to imitate what the viewer sees.»

Placed in the upper half, and held in place by the physical edges of the painting's top and flanking sides, the ghostly bands float above a subtly inflected surface that we look at, as well as into, unable to settle comfortably in either domain.

I followed the edge of the painting up and around; skipping, for now, the faces — the focal point.

Even here [pointing to a painting in the middle of Ted's studio], are those pieces of wood on the edges of that painting?

How do you treat the edges of your paintings?

The title formulation is one Jaray has used before — in 2013, she curated a group exhibition at Megan Piper titled The Edge of Painting — and it is clear that Jaray is interested in the definitions of painting, printing and the boundaries between different media.

The distribution of marks across the surface can seem almost random, and yet at the edges of the paintings you are likely to find, threading in and out of their tangled skein, elegantly graphic decorative patterns.

By marking the edges of the paintings, she calls attention to their shape as significant, while the nebulous contents of the pictorial field — lacking the order and legibility of the grid — offer few clues to its inner structure and encourage the viewer to lose sight of place.

They lack that instinctive push to the edge of his paintings at their best.

There were little burrs on the edge of the paint that were so miniscule and then sometimes at the end of the line there was a little spiral of curled up paint that had been carved out through the incising.

They cleverly, all at once, bend, break up and refract the edges of the painting back into itself.

This would not seem particularly remarkable were it not for the fact that Haggerty breaks this linear formation at the edges of the painting — and occasionally also at the symmetrical center of the composition — by bending the lines in a different direction as they approach the boundaries of the painting support.

Not only the space within the painting, but the space or the environment that the painting occupies, which sometimes has arcs and columns that seem to refer to and echo the edge of the painting.

Larger circles in fact look like the edges of a paint can, as if left there in the studio by accident.

Yet even here, bands of black enamel radiating concentrically from the center of the composition push your eye out to the edges of the painting and beyond.

She also started exploring the potential of symmetrical paintings which was the first time Frankenthaler was interested in the edges of her paintings.

Liz Glass: Visible at the end of a short hallway at the DIA, in Alex Katz's Ann and Billy (ca. 1981) peer in various directions toward the edges of the painting's frame.

As is often the case with Innes» work, our attention is drawn to the edges of the painting, where puddles of pure colour gather at the peripheries.

Is the man engaging in oral sex, fulfilling some act of pleasure just outside the edge of the painting?

Two faces, or perhaps two halves of one face stretched apart, frame the edges of the painting as a figure stands in the center, depicted from the knees up.

Piper Gallery, until 30 December 2013 If you were a fan of Tess Jaray RA's ambitious curatorial feat at the RA's 2012 Summer Exhibition, where she created a wave of small works swooping across the Academy's grandest gallery, then I recommend you pop down to «The Edge of Painting, the show she has curated for the Piper Gallery this December.

But De Kooning remained within the edges of the painting whereas Still exploded beyond them.

-- works that existed over a long period of time, adapting to the ever - changing environment in which they were conceived — that the sharp edges of a painting, of a poem, of a dancing body, became smoother, if not legible.

In the mid-1960s, he arrived at another distinct aesthetic idiom characterized by colorful brushstrokes around the edges of his paintings surrounding nearly empty white space within.

In Untitled 2/72 the orange centre of the composition is framed by four pink bands, each of which is the same width as its distance from the edge of the painting.

In the catalogue for the group exhibition Made in L.A. 2012 (Hammer Museum, 2012), which included Miller's work, Kurt Mueller points out that «Miller's interests and affinities lie at the edges of painting's history,» and that it focuses on three divergent possibilities:» optical (Edouard Vuillard), pictorial / linguistic (René Magritte), and material / spatial (Lucio Fontana).»

Meanwhile, behind the rulers, the square linoleum tiles are rendered to appear parallel to the top and bottom edges of the painting, while converging inward.

I was becoming more and more preoccupied with the edge of the painting, and how it functioned as an object.

Fabric, cardboard, and other studio fragments are attached to the edges of each painting, like mysterious satellites at the borders of indeterminate topographies.

The edges of the paint are hard but the fields of color look as if they were dragged across the surface with a board exposing the underpainting.

From the late 1940s, Bolotowsky used canvases shaped as diamonds, circles, and ovals to show how the edge of the painting could change the visual effect of the lines and angles within.

They reach the same height as each other but the block on the left extends slightly lower, or closer to the bottom edge of the painting, than the block on the right which is wider.

The edges of his paintings are clear evidence of the care with which he organized the beginning and end of his work, but the struggle between control and freedom which animates the picture surface can not be missed by the spectator.