Sentences with phrase «flat canvas»

The second uses actual folds to create light and dark, with flat canvas strips woven into squares.

Now painting could show itself as it is, marks on an essentially flat canvas.

Typically the ground appears lighter or brighter than the foreground image, and one can choose to identify that with flat canvas or light scattered off stone.

Everything appears in motion; from flat canvases that play tricks on the eyes to erected rods and cones, everything spins, plays with light: every image moves.

In the early 1940's, a painter by the name of Jackson Pollock began developing a technique that allowed him to spontaneously drip enamel paint onto flat canvases, resulting in...

Instead, it is a perfectly flat canvas covered in red, whose edges were cropped to imply perspective; the picture plane ends up suggesting flatness and three dimensions at the same time.

Pascali's other works involving canvas include «Grande bacino di donna, mons Venus», and «Labbra rosse», these works were large flat canvases that became three - dimensional sculptures through the use of wooden structures, paint, and other materials, though they were still able to be hung on the wall.

By warping the edges, corners and straight lines of the traditional flat canvas, these three dimensional works become perceptually disorientating when viewed.

Garth Weiser exhibition will present several artworks that built up tension between the intricate layers of color and flat canvas surfaces.

Long before scientists were studying the properties of neurons, artists had devised a series of techniques to «trick» the brain into thinking that a flat canvas was three - dimensional or that a series of brushstrokes was actually a still life.

These pictures read as both abstractions — dots on a flat canvas, and deep illusionistic paintings of the night sky.

On a flat canvas painted forms appear sculptural and his three - dimensional works are painterly.

Stella's occupation with formalist concerns has led to intensive and rich explorations of line, color, texture and the potential of the pictorial surface to reach beyond the flat canvas to the realm of volume, space and light.

«Skechers shape ups work (sad)» is the Skecher shoe after having been dissected and placed onto a flat canvas.

These painters create works both representational and abstract that simultaneously accept and challenge the limitations of the flat canvas and the rectangular picture plane.

The surfaces of the paintings are flat and three - dimensional all at once: hot pink and fluorescent green geometric shapes appear to float above and protrude from the flat canvas.

Her spot - covered paintings, from the early Infinity Net paintings to her current, ongoing series, My Eternal Soul, bring a universe of sprawling, endless dots and webbed shapes to flat canvas.

Since then, his work has never stopped changing and surprising: The flat canvases developed into reliefs that later became three dimensional objects.

This is not merely Malevich's anarchic redux or Clement Greenberg in spite of himself, as the iridescent pigments on even her flattest canvases demonstrate.

It's as if the paint rises from the flat canvas.

While Jackson Pollock is considered as the most well - known painter who created his abstract pieces by dripping paint onto a flat canvas, many before him experimented with this method as well.

As a closed form, the circle hovers slightly above the center of the painting and transforms into something completely different, into an almost linear rotation, whose course again increasingly expands breadthwise, opens up and penetrates the immobile material of the flat canvas.

In part a reaction against the pretty pictures of Impressionism, a style which held no intellectual interest for Picasso, Cubism refocused attention on the essential 2 - D nature of the flat canvas, overturning conventional systems of perspective and ways of perceiving form, in the process.

The two 32 - year - old twins and Cooper Union grads were keen to avoid the tendencies of Renaissance masters to distort an image by displaying it on a flat canvas.

According to the New York Times, «Mr. Ortman, who was deeply influenced by Surrealism, came of age in the heyday of American abstraction but chafed at the limitations of the flat canvas.

While Remi's art has always been about creating dimension within the depths of a canvas or a wall, his new works have taken that idea in an exciting new direction, by transforming a three dimensional object such as a skull through the application of paint and by extracting complex shapes from the flat canvas into sculptural forms.

Different artistic movements related to modern painting, such as Cubism, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism, each sought to further achieve this goal of creating a purely optical world that exists only on a flat canvas.

Motherwell would load his brush with paint then vigorously whip the brush onto the flat canvas, an exercise in force against resistance that created visually striking images paralleling the same kind of slapping motion of sea waves against the bulkhead.

The paint texture, marks and subtle variations in color, and bleeds / drips / rips of paint similarly create their own interference, breaking the illusion of depth and space within the pattern, and bringing the eye back to the surface of the paint, the «skin» covering the flat canvas.

Hot pink and fluorescent green geometric shapes appear to float above and protrude from the flat canvas.

Encapsulating his distinctive «push and pull» technique of implying space while asserting the primacy of the flat canvas, Auxerre demonstrates the robust way in which Hofmann's paintings dramatize the dynamic oscillation between volumes and voids on the one hand and two - dimensional color planes on the other.

Did you start with more traditional painting: flat canvases on the wall?

In all of these paintings, Guérin builds dense, fleshy surfaces that rise from the flat canvas, besmear it, and transform it into a vision all her own.

When I felt like I was ready for the real thing, I dug out a four pack of 8.5 x 11 flat canvases that I had purchased from Ross for the whopping cost of $ 4.00.