Sentences with phrase «elements of painted canvases»

Not exact matches

I have long remembered the remark of a notable art critic — though I have forgotten which one — that many modernist paintings could be understood as fragments of classical painting blown up for their own sake, displaying the formal and technical elements by which painting is accomplished but eschewing the narrative depiction within which such patches of paint on canvas would earlier have had their place.

I took off my large canvas from the mantel, and I added some awesome neutral elements, a large skull and of course my watercolor painting to my fall mantel decor.

Marshall's subdued, slightly melancholy, slightly hopeful canvases are often allegories — they rethink various art - historical genres, such as history paintings and self - portraiture, by applying elements of African American culture to them.

Part of a series of 102 silkscreened canvas panels conceived as one painting with multiple components, in this piece there are elements that call to mind Franz Kline's investigations into calligraphic compulsions.

Wilson removes the color from each nation's flag and replaces all of the graphic design elements — stars, stripes and symbols — with black acrylic paint on raw canvas.

Over the past twenty years, she has employed a diverse array of techniques and vocabularies, ranging from the cheerily clumsy figuration of folk painting to imitations of digital image editing (an interest that has also extended to the incorporation of digitally printed wallpaper and conversational text elements into her canvases).

Perhaps it was the vast canvas expanse of «Rebus» in my peripheral vision that brought to mind Butler's use of fabric as an independent element, or perhaps it was something deeper; like Rauschenberg's Combines, there is something simultaneously serene and mad about these paintings.

The division of many of his canvases into areas of slightly shifted perspective add an element of cubism to paintings that also provoke thought.

At ABMB, Pace showed (and sold, at prices ranging from $ 75,000 to $ 1m) 16 signature black Louise Nevelsons; Mitchell - Innes & Nash gave a wall to Jessica Stockholder's 14 - element assemblage; Rosalyn Drexler's canvas collages of magazine strips took over Garth Greenan's Survey booth; a Kiki Smith white car - painted bronze anchored Timothy Taylor's space; Noga, the sole Israeli gallery (why?)

He later invented his Texturologies — abstract paintings which adapted the traditional Tyrolean technique used by plasterers: Dubuffet covered his canvas in layers of tiny droplets of paint, and combined it with materials including collaged elements and sand.

Lerma uses layers of figurative as well as abstract elements, charcoal and colours, text, the blank canvas and smudges of paint to create vibrant, erratic compositions in which you recognize cartoonish figures, mysterious calligraphic signs, and vegetal varieties.

Dana Miller, curator of the upcoming Whitney show, says, «She was right there dealing with the same issues that Stella and Kelly played with, using the structure of the painting and the canvas edge as a formal element to riff off.

Painted patches of canvas and linen are applied to the painting surfaces to add a specific element of interest and spontaneity, maintaining energy at peak level with unexpected shifts in process.

Some of his most well - known works consider passing time, utilizing dried paint «skins» from the tops of paint cans or paint trays as collage elements or subjects on canvas.

Aldrich pursues an open - ended exploration of painting and uses its fundamental elements — canvas, stretcher bars, paint — to interrogate and celebrate the intellectual and sensual conundrums of the art form.

She often cited natural elements as inspiration, and her signature style reflects the influences of Henri Matisse, Josef Albers, and Wassily Kandinsky — featuring loosely painted yet meticulously constructed canvases, filled with latticework of bright color creating patterns from negative space.

Decidedly literary and personal, Aldrich's paintings are deeply interconnected, as he draws together elements of the studio, the cosmos of canvas scraps and books that fill it.

Some of the works feature kinetic elements, and the sculptures interact so beautifully with Whitney's lyrical, energetic paintings that the dialogue reminds me of that between David Smith's canvases and 3 - D works.

Murray's most recent paintings, in which individual curvilinear canvas panels slide behind or in front of each other, are not only balanced between abstractions and representation, but contain elements of both painting and sculpture.

But soon the spray paint became a part of her visual vernacular and it was no longer a defacement of the work but a vital addition to the elements at play within the environment of the canvas.

The exhibition is composed of three elements: a suite of six monotypes, two large paintings on canvas, and the third (and most exciting) is the wall drawing Mr. Row will produce at the museum April 17 - 20, 2001.

Martinez is known for his large - scale, energetic canvases in which densely built - up layers of oil and enamel paint are punctuated by elements of collage.

Kosuth has also coloured the gallery walls as part of his montage that yields meaning and visual effects not only within individual elements, but also from the collision of, say, a gashed Fontana canvas, the blown - up definition of the word «red», and a wall coloured in Benjamin Moore household paint, an industrial medium favoured by Frank Stella and Andy Warhol.

Stephan uses the humble elements of painting — the stretched canvas, the brushstroke, color, the illusion of three - dimensional space — in straightforward ways, no painting tricks.

Watercolors on paper related to sculpture; tabletop sculptures; a series of mixed media paintings that incorporate collaged elements and his newest work: abstract acrylic paintings on canvas or watercolor paper.

In Meyer Vaisman's paintings the volumetric stacking of canvases or layering of compositional elements, and the ersatz texturing of surfaces - a photomechanical imprinting of a magnified reproduction of canvas weave borrowed from a commercial Letratone ¨ pattern sheet - parody the modernist ethos about flatness and truth to materials.

In these works, Stella recalls several of his most marked and insurgent artistic elements; the shaped canvas, the absence of color, the use of household paints, mysterious geometry and highly ambiguous titles.

In this new body of work, Parrott incorporates sculptural elements within her paintings in order to explore the canvas as a type of barrier.

For Fonda, the formal qualities of painting — the emphasis on color, line, shape and texture — are equally as important as the conceptual elements being interpreted on the canvas.

Their built - up layers of paint and collage elements make them the most time - consuming works Bradley produces, as does the sculptural, three - dimensional way in which they are painted: on the floor, tacked to the wall, and on the back of the canvas, picking up studio detritus along the way.

A combination of acrylic and spray paint canvases, dyed interactive soft sculptures, and a concrete block plant installation, the show's multi-medium elements serve as a whimsical juxtaposition to the modernist architecture of the space.

In other works, by contrast, Gaman introduces elements of geometric influences that echo Ad Reinhardt's black paintings from the 1950s in pieces such as Untitled 2014 (pigment print on canvas).

Although they are made of stretched canvas and assembled by hand from smaller elements, they are not quite paintings and not quite sculptures.

Various materials — embroidery, acrylic paint, fabric and canvas — are sewn together to become continuous, integral elements of the work.

Challenging the confinement of the rectangular plane, Smith expanded the three - dimensional elements of his canvases, warping them outwards, adding various shapes to their edges, and dispensing of stretchers all together, hanging sheets of painted canvas like giant kites.

These elements in the drawings offer clues on how to read the painting, which also bears the words «in» to the left and «out» to the right, inviting the viewer to walk along the canvas from left to right and perceive it over time, as one would a piece of music.

Inspired by pop culture and cartoons, Jamie Powell's paintings incorporate elements of chance and improvisation as she manipulates the canvas by dyeing, cutting, and tying pieces to create sculptural forms, revealing the underlying frame.

From experimentation, accidents, and even repairing the fragile, sculptural elements of his paintings, Hollingsworth has recently come across a new technique in which he paints directly onto the plastic wrap of store - bought canvases.

Physical space is dispensed with as an element in painting — even the dimensions of the canvas do not represent measurements inside which relationships are set up, but rather only determine the ends of the image.

With Nelson's work, there has long been a preoccupation with the basic material elements of painting: canvas, stretcher, and paint, which comes out of a Minimalist idea of specificity.

For her first solo exhibition in Italy, La Kermesse Héroïque, the Brussels - based Lucy McKenzie has made a group of new works, including mural paintings on canvas, painted objects, sculptures and figures - combined with elements of decor (such as lighting and furniture) to explore the relationship between style, ideology and value.

Klosterman has been developing her own process of contrasting elements, on one side the hard materials of the sculptural series and on the other side the soft delicate silks and fabrics of her canvases, meticulously hand painted, drawing from imagery she creates inspired by the Fibonacci Sequence.

He would also smear sand, broken glass, and other textural elements on the canvas, while painting in a fluid motion from all sides of the canvas.

Of this new approach, she says, «I had to be really in tune with the materials — how paint was going to react with the canvas, how formal elements such as color and form were going to behave as more paint was added.»

Among these are several small paintings with elements that look as though they were drawn by squeezing tubes of acrylic paint directly onto the canvas.

Energetic and raw, his paintings employ an aggressive use of color and texture with various combinations of oil, enamel, spray paint and collage elements on canvas.

Because Kline sketched and painted this photograph so many times, he acquired such a familiarity with it that he could apparently sketch it blindfolded in less than thirty seconds.39 This skill necessarily involved what Kline had described in 1956 as the process that had led to his breakthrough to abstraction: «breaking down the structure into essential elements».40 In the photograph, the posture of Nijinsky in absolute terms and relative to the frame has a striking structure of a kind that persists in Kline's abstract work, in which there is a tension between the composition internal to the painting and the limits of the canvas.

He also explores the works» sculptural presence, both in the boxes of the System of Display series, each a few inches deep, and the Black Dada paintings, which are literally printed with sculptures and text elements that activate the edges of the canvas.

Although Piper's early and student work made use of traditional fine art media such as paint and canvas (such as The Body Politic, 1983), [3] from the late 1980s he became primarily associated with technically innovative work that explored multi-media elements such as computer software, websites, tape / slide, sound and video within an installation - based practice.

When he started to paint again in the mid-1940s, Newman sought a new style of mystical abstraction, and it was at this time that he made his first works using his signature vertical elements, or «zips,» to punctuate the single - hued fields of his canvases.