Sentences with phrase «edges of the canvas»

The circular edge of a canvas becomes part of the work's geometry and plays against the design within.

The painted lines reach to the very edges of the canvases.

The artist's signature and the date («Martin Creed 2011») is written in pencil on the reverse bottom edge of the canvas.

The tacks on edges of canvas give it extra personality also.

Even in his freest inventions he restored the flat, physical reality of the surface by letting his pigment clot or by slapping the unsized edges of the canvas with his paint - dipped palms.

Ingram cares about the surface and edge of canvas as defining elements, although not in the manner of all - over painting.

This work is related to his well - known «Open» series (started in 1968): newly spare paintings in which a partial rectangle of black lines descends from the top edge of the canvas into a field of color.

Its cutting, flame - like forms swirl around the left edge of the canvas threatening to envelop the smaller white form that floats at the right.

My daughter, Dylan, also showed them a painting with a single figure to the far right edge of the canvas and the rest of the (24 x 30) canvas seemingly contained negative space; but if you held it up to the light, as Dylan explained, you could see another solitary figure that is not visible just by looking at the painting itself.

Here, however, each layer of paint is applied from the far edges of the canvas working inward toward the center, thus resulting in an illusionistic depth, the lighter tones of the composition acting as a framing device.

Indeed, the slightly mounded «peaks» near the upper edge of the canvas provide the only vestige of the artist's hand.

One of the hallmarks of that type of abstract painting is the «all - over» composition, in which the paint reaches all four edges of the canvas equally, and the eye roams through the picture in a nonhierarchical way.

The back edge of the canvases is probably the best as then it'll not get separated from the painting (though it may get hidden if the paintings are framed).

He embraces different states of paint, from thin to gloppy, with the outer edges of the canvas often containing few or no layers.

The North Gallery contains a baker's dozen paintings, that engage with abstraction through pleasing geometries: Alice Neel's Sol Alkaitis, 1965, is a male half figure whose angular pose seems to press against the four boundary edges of the canvas while Alex Katz» Dorothy, 1974, presents a hieratic head fit for a coin of the realm.

With a set of sixteen canvases called Primary Light Group from 1964, Baer takes on Greenberg's figure / ground fetish with a resounding severity: gleaming, «empty» white fields are hemmed in by black frames that run the literal edge of the canvas.

Her new paintings continue her recent shift away from the hard - edged geometry that ruled her earlier work and present a single, attenuated rectangle with irregular sides, which rests at the bottom edge of the canvas.

The artist's signature and the date («Martin Creed 2011») is written in pencil on the reverse top edge of the canvas.

On their face these final drawings, and the one painting that was their result (Homage to Mondrian, 2001 — 2003), are composed of just two broad bars of color, one an elongate rectangle hugging the lower left edge of the canvas, the other swung upward as if hinged to form a raised horizontal axis bisecting the canvas left to right slightly above center.

The creator of panoramic vistas stretching to the very edge of a canvas, he showed on paper a fondness for the largest mountain, tree, or rock at a compositional dead center.

Lot 281 Hassel Wendell Smith Untitled 1961 Oil on canvas Signed and dated upper right edge of canvas; signed and dated verso; retains Ferus Gallery, Hackett Mill, and Hackett Freedman Gallery labels verso; retains Pasadena Art Museum and Pomona College Gallery exhibition labels verso Canvas: 68 ″ x 48 ″; Frame: 69 ″ x 49 ″; (Canvas: 173 x 122 cm) Estimate: $ 20,000 — $ 30,000

Lay out your crayon pattern along the edge of the canvas.

Using a hot glue gun, attach crayon by crayon along the top edge of the canvas.

These can be summarized as: the way his picture moves towards the edge of the canvas in centrifugal waves filling to the brim; his completely impulsive use of pigment as a material, generally thick, slow - flowing, viscous, with a sensual attitude toward it, as if it were the primordial material, with deep and vibratory color; the absence of any effacing of the tracks bearing the imprint of the energy passing over the surface.

Generally I sweep from one edge of the canvas to the other.

Now clearly a gaggle of witches, they enact a Matissian dance around the edges of the canvas.

Strips of fluorescent color painted on the edges of the canvases bounced off the white walls and created a sense of movement, rhythm, and vibration.

It's the pose, the composition, the colour, the light on the face, the untold narrative and the suggestion of movement in the figure, how the figure reaches beyond the edges of the canvas; the whole kit and caboodle.

The figures themselves sometimes running off the edge of the canvas letting us know there is more to their lives; a world Neel does not permit us to see.

Active areas of color are either entirely surrounded by rectilinear geometric frameworks or are placed above a pristine narrow stripe positioned at the bottom edge of the canvas.

His paintings mentally continued beyond the edges of the canvas are «abstract icons», a counter-images to reality, the result of his «transcendental experiences».

One gets the scale, the immersion in oil, the pull to the edge of the canvas and back toward the center, and a personal insignia.

But the curious will be rewarded, especially when the «figure» of the triangle wraps around to the edge of the canvas (she used green edges to give a halo on the wall behind certain paintings).

Color also gains mass, anchored to the bottom edge of the canvas.

He sticks to an easel scale and blends colors, as Georges Seurat said one should not, right up to the edge of the canvas.

Like both artists, Amy Cheng combines species in a single flower, with patterning in oil that leaves the edge of the canvas to break its intricate symmetry.

They also retreat from the edges of the canvas, leaving nothing but white, while works on paper resemble cels in an abstract comic strip of indecipherable signs.

Conversely, I once saw a very small painting by Jake Berthot, a pocket - book - size picture that was a complex layering of different greys with some wonderful reds breaking through the field and also at the edges of the canvas — it seemed like I was looking at something almost infinite in its dimensions.

Time and time again in her work, we see an artist pushing the boundaries, in some cases quite literally with lines and forms racing off the edge of the canvas, yet somehow she always manages to maintain a sense of stability and produce works that are visually engaging.

Like others, he also flattened form as he pushed to the very edge of the canvas.

The concentrated mass spreads to the edges of the canvas; this is a development from his earlier paintings where Guston coiled the mass more tightly in the center.

Sadie Benning and Julia Rommel connect with the hard - edge color - field abstraction of the 1960's, pushing outward against the edges of the canvas through their innovative use of materials.

For this new series, titled «Mimbres,» she picks up on her studies of tiles while also injecting this new cultural reference, painting the geometric Mimbre designs on the edges of the canvases.

Often, the bright, contrasting color appears on the edges of the canvas, where reflections vibrate on the gallery's white walls.

The cross formed by the edges of the canvases also offers a subtle play on the relation between surface and object.

By the late 1990s, as their shapes smooth out and they increasingly seek the edge of canvas, they deny Pollock's gesture and symmetry more rigorously than ever.

One of the nicest touches in these large - scale paintings is the little cliffs of oil paint that hang precariously off the edges of the canvas.

In those dark works from the 1960s and 1970s, Marden would work oil and beeswax into one another, up to and over the very edge of the canvas.

The shapes are big, practically reaching the edge of the canvas.