Sentences with phrase «huge canvas»

Both paintings were done on huge canvases that would typically be used for history paintings.

Later, when art materials were available, he enjoyed painting huge canvases and achieved great success.

Her vibrant, colourful, abstract works are painted onto huge canvases often with children's toys and other small objects stuck to them.

The walls of the gallery were hung with five huge canvases covered with white - on - white infinity nets.

I liked doing motions to spray huge canvases while the police were on your tail.

This was his probably the most provoking exhibition, held in the hall right behind the Mona Lisa, and consisting of a series of huge canvases of a replica of Mona Lisa in the center, and portraits of Ming's father and the artist himself in a state of death.

Saatchi can afford to experiment with rooms full of wooden headstones, each with a human nuance (and each ramming home the same point), just as he can afford to buy half a dozen huge canvases by Makiko Kudo, who incorporates wide - eyed manga dollies into landscapes so exactly like those of Peter Doig that one wonders if some intellectual copyright isn't being infringed.

In a nutshell, what originally seemed extreme — she trowels buckets of paint onto huge canvases with palette knives and squeegees — now looks like a parlor trick.

I got into online business to pay for my expensive creative hobbies (buying huge canvases and driving them home at 2 am on my scooter.)

Bruce Rubenstein specializes in large - scale artworks, using huge canvases to tell his stories.

In this gallery hang huge canvases full of a frenzied mix of colorful and cotton eye - candy fun imagery.

Huge canvases declare redemption and...

He did away with easel stretchers, preferring to drape huge canvases like laundry on a line.

I went at it, stretching huge canvases and smearing on colors, hoping the instincts that had gotten me into the program would now work to keep me there.

Not unlike the religious painters of the Renaissance, Hughie O'Donoghue often paints on a monumental scale, creating huge canvases and charcoal drawings that have reminded some art critics of «the Abstract Expressionism of the fifties in their heroic scale and intention.»

Typically, this featured huge canvases containing large areas of colour which were designed to «envelope» the viewer and engender an emotional reaction.

Working mostly in France after the late 1950s, she challenged the primacy of New York as the art world's center, and made huge canvases that rivaled the testosterone - driven scale of the Jackson Pollock days.

Influenced by the events of the Arab Spring, the artist, who was born in 1970 in Addis - Ababa and works in New York, has again filled huge canvases with skeins upon skeins of architectural plans, city maps, darting lines and free - flowing, undulating attacks of ink that are more powerful than ever, abstractly suggesting wild rivers, treacherous mountains and bombed - out landscapes.

He goes back to 1950s action painting: huge canvases violently attacked with red paint.

Jackson Pollock's turbulent yet elegant abstract paintings, which were created by spattering paint on huge canvases placed on the floor, brought abstract expressionism before a hostile public.

Hurvin Anderson's huge canvases of foliage and trees are at once familiar and overlaid by complicated memories of other places — Jamaica and Trinidad.

It was in the winter of 1948 - 9 that Rothko stumbled across his multiform concept, in which blocks of contrasting but complementary colour pigments are arranged vertically on huge canvases, in order to overwhelm or envelop the spectator.

They were just paintings — huge canvases covered in bright abstract expressionist swirls but which were then raggedly covered in tarp, so that some of the painting still peeped through round the peeling edges of the plastic sheets.

Like an artist sketching in broad strokes on a huge canvas, Paul in the first 11 chapters of Romans has traced with great intensity God's patience and persistence at making peace with humanity.

His style is frequently poetic, his methodology like a painter sketching his vision onto a huge canvas.

«The penny has dropped recently that, love or hate Edward Snowden, he has laid out a huge canvas of issues that concern us all,» he said.

That is one huge canvas you have to work with.

I bought a huge canvas and spent two days painting it in the kitchen while listening to music to get me in the creative mood.

It appears to be a photo, blown up on a huge canvas.

On that second day I walked to Chelsea alone and did my own kind of praying in front of huge canvases painted by a pregnant woman from Brazil.

Camping fans can pitch up at Sleeping Trees, whether they want to literally sleep in the trees, or do it safari style with a huge canvas tent kitted out with its own wooden double bed.

This is a huge canvas and every time I work on it I have a different imagery in mind that I want to incorporate in this piece.

You'll see a huge canvas colored plain green, toilets splotched together with masking tape, and paintings that look like someone splashed together twenty colors over five minutes and displayed it as a joke on artistic snobbery.

They didn't prime their huge canvases before putting on their paint.

The huge canvases and vivid, autobiographical swagger of Abstract Expressionism would have been at odds with her own impulses.

In May 1927, twenty - two of his huge canvases were installed permanently in the Orangerie in Paris, Claude Monet's gift to the people of France.

His huge canvases remind me a little of a Brothers Grimm fairytale or something shaggy, like no knead bread before you bake it.

My lovely local printmaker Daniel putting the finishing touches on a special order - a huge canvas print for a customer in the USA

The huge canvas, unstretched, and flat to the wall, has the grandeur of a Renaissance fresco.

Red Grooms is pushing a baby carriage across Third Avenue with a huge canvas in it.

I once went to an artist's studio and they had a huge canvas displayed on the floor.

«We had these huge canvases that we had to fold over and press together so that the paint was evenly distributed on both halves of the canvas.

With his huge canvases and genius for colour, John Hoyland burst onto the British art scene in the 1960s to become our greatest abstract painter.

With its pale pink blushes, glowing ochres and delicate blue and green stains, we're not invited to read this huge canvas, painted when she was just 23, as one depicting nature exactly, but, like Pollock, there is a sense of the elusively figurative, the organic and the primordial.

«The Big Picture,» an exhibition of seven huge canvases on view at the New York Academy of Art, puts a simple premise to work, with unexpectedly riveting results.

The calm was broken with the 11th - hour revelation, emanating from science fiction addicts with long memories, that a huge canvas by Glenn Brown borrowed heavily from a 1974 Pan book jacket by Anthony Roberts, for a novel called Double Star.

While shows such as the Tate's 2010 «Art and the Sublime» chose the more marketable monumental expressions of the Romantic Sublime — the huge canvases of John Martin or Francis Danby — this exhibition chooses to focus on what curator Matthew Hargraves describes as the «quiet transformation» of landscape in the late 18th and early 19th century.

The series of works depict sea battles, with actual miniature leaden craft attached to huge canvases that are thick with gunky layers of paint and plaster, hung with barbed wire and embellished with tall stalks of dried sunflowers.