Sentences with phrase «enormous canvases»

He painted on enormous canvases so that the edge of the canvas was not within his peripheral vision and so he was not confined by the edge of the rectangle.

But it was Lichtenstein, working in comic - book style, who had already emblazoned enormous canvases with unvariegated swathes of primaries licked with black outlines against his mechanical dots.

His experimentations led to the development of his famous «drip» technique, in which he energetically drew or «dripped» complicated linear rhythms onto enormous canvases, which were often placed flat on the floor.

«[Kerry James] Marshall's «Garden Project» series, five enormous canvases produced in 1994 and 1995, is one of the great painting cycles of our period....

This is John Hoyland, whose enormous canvases are filling the Whitechapel in just that way which makes it look so often the grandest gallery in London.

by Tara Plath The Harvard Art Museums» inaugural exhibitions following a massive renovation by renowned architect Renzo Piano includes an incredible presentation of Mark Rothko's Harvard Murals, enormous canvases made specifically for the Harvard Campus in 1961 - 62.

Enormous canvases filled with vibrant colors and bold strokes typify Schnabel's paintings.

Mark Flood's enormous canvas situates a gauze fabric veil at the picture plane, behind which a chasmic depth is inferred; Christopher Wool's intimate monoprints blot a bright red mark atop a printed black and white background, condensing or collapsing the space of the image.

Brodsky's style channels the heightened realism of 19th century landscape painters; whereas the historical paintings were created on enormous canvases that echoed the vast American landscape, Brodsky's contemporary take condenses the visual impact into a token - sized work that fits in the palm of a hand.

Lightly painted with masterful brushwork and luminous color, the enormous canvases appear to have been painted wet - on - wet, in one go.

Katz next blows up the drawing into a «cartoon,» sometimes using an overhead projector, and transfers it to an enormous canvas via «pouncing» — a technique used by Renaissance artists, involving powdered pigment pushed through tiny perforations pricked into the cartoon to recreate the composition on the surface to be painted.

Passersby lay down and marked their presence onto the enormous canvas covering the floor, which gradually became a drawing - field.

This superlative show is huge in every sense: big themes, giant icons of mid century art, enormous canvases, and no small amount of ambition on the Royal Academy's part, tackling an often shied from movement — or «ism» — which was last explored in such a survey in the UK back in 1959.

Cy Twombly could not have been more different in his approach to art, completely abstract, and often on enormous canvases.

This enormous canvas provided the painter with his big opportunity to realise his vision of making «energy and motion» visible on a larger - than - life scale.

In 12 enormous canvases, each measuring 9ft 10in x 9ft (3m x 2.75 m), as well as a series of works on paper using pen and ink and watercolour, Baselitz offers his upturned head wearing a white cap emblazoned with the word «zero», the name of his paint supplier.

What is stunning is the vitality of these 10 enormous canvases, several as much as 10ft square.

My Light Series paintings from the 1980s, enormous canvases that appear to be rocks floating in space, found that light and energy on an artistic cosmic level.

I just returned from FOG and Untitled Art Fair in San Francisco and was really impressed by Mehretu's new monumental commission for SF MOMA involving two enormous canvases that flank the staircase in the museum's atrium.

One of his specialties was mountain landscapes painted on enormous canvases: for example, Rocky Mountains (1863, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York).

of Modern Art, New York City) frequently consist of floating rectangles of luminous color on enormous canvases that manage to simultaneously convey a deep sensuality and a profound spirituality.

At ninety years, Katz can still surefootedly drag a 12 - foot wet line across an enormous canvas with an outcome so crisp and faultless, it seems to eschew human intervention.

Mural (1943), commissioned by the legendary collector Peggy Guggenheim to cover an entire wall of her Manhattan townhouse, is an enormous canvas of restive curls that jostle in a tangle of colour.

One idea we do like, however, is the enormous canvas layered in front of wood panelling, fronted by an antique desk.