LDW works less well when lane markings are old, or when the lane markings are raised dots, rather than 20 -
foot painted stripes.
Not exact matches
In 1972 Davis created Franklin's Footpath, which was at the time the world's largest artwork, by
painting colorful
stripes on the street in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the world's largest
painting, Niagara (43,680 square
feet), in a parking lot in Lewiston, NY.
A gorgeous case in point is «Little Rouge» (1969), a
painting roughly 4 by 9
feet, topped by four narrow
stripes (one simply a thin red line) over a broad expanse of mustardy sand color.
Densely hung in the gallery's living room - size main space, the large
paintings, which are all seven
feet tall and five and a half
feet across, swarm you with their edgy, jagged energy... in «Raft,»... the vertical
stripes run from top to bottom, with two horizontal sets constrained within shield - like shapes on the left and right, calling to mind Walker's fascination with Aboriginal and African art.
One of the most daunting works in the show, Vertical Landscape
Painting, is a 13
foot high plank that towers far above one's head and is swathed in subtle gradations of green and blue that vibrate between countless
stripes and undulate above the tonal shifts of wood.
Rising 165
feet and
painted in striking black and white
stripes the current lighthouse is actually the third attempt to illuminate the perilous stretch of coast from Cape Hatteras to Currituck Beach, known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic.