Sentences with phrase «image upon canvas»
Commencing with the belief that rendering an image upon canvas limits the experience of the viewer, Erisalu has produced a series of paintings utilizing language, words, numbers and letters, which identify the subject rather than drawing or painting it.
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The somber dark palette of his Chapel paintings recalls Malevich's The Black Suprematic Rectangle, 1915 (better known as «The Black Square») where the canvas serves as a screen upon which the viewer projects his own thoughts and images.
What is at stake in this work is not so much representing a figure and giving it flesh, but the staging of an image's life — as if the image was taking revenge upon the portrait and pushing its way to the surface of the canvas, with the help of curtains and shadows, pictorial marks and brushwork.
Executed in oil on canvas from a digital image, the paintings incorporate layer upon layer of fine lines of colour to create architectural - like forms, suggestive of a dense, abstracted cityscapes.
His canvases manifest his ability to transmute images steeped in commodity - culture and perceived as commercial or quotidian art into lovely visions, both separate from and contingent upon the emergent mass media which originally produced them.
Drawing upon historical movements such as baroque, pop art, and abstract expressionism, while referencing contemporary developments in graffiti and photo - realism, the duo create intricately layered canvases in which linear narrative falls prey to the chaos of our image saturated times.
In past work, the paint more dramatically creased, pinched, and folded as the artist piled layer upon layer of oil skins on the canvas, further abstracting the image.
In a series of square canvases, Stingel examines painting's capacity to translate and transform a photographic image, dilating a split - second moment into a meditation upon time and memory.
Upon first glance, Cook's abstract canvases may seem neutral and derivative, but are actually teeming with well - constructed ideas regarding artistic credit and the image itself.
Neils Møller Lund, Newcastle upon Tyne from the East, 1898, oil on canvas, image by courtesy of Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, (Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums)