Sentences with phrase «expanses of blank canvas»

The other major series are «Florals,» whose hues seem to bud from a central point; the self - explanatory «Stripes,» prefiguring late -»60s minimalism; and the «Unfurleds,» in which vast expanses of blank canvas are framed by rivulets of color.

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Depicting nothing more than the straight white lines and wide arks across the blank green expanse of the pitch, these canvases perform a subtle yet playful doubling, as the artist mischievously mirrors the action of the line painter.

Stella's early stripe paintings demonstrate Stella's acute awareness of the issue of objecthood insofar as those paintings explicitly took painting about as far as it could go (without being a blank expanse of stretched canvas hung on the wall) toward objecthood without declaring their existence as mere objects.