Sentences with phrase «in vast canvas»

For secrecy, it is draped in vast canvas shrouds that hide everything but its tail, which is that of the Army's familiar Redstone rocket.

Not exact matches

Its morally ambiguous characters and unflinching tone are echoed in the 21st century's most acclaimed films, but in the 1960s they stood in bold defiance to America's long - upheld traditional Western, the kind with clear, laudable heroism, vast canvases, and a noble spirit.
Working with a mix of technical collaborators old and new, Villeneuve has once again delivered an impeccably well - crafted film, not least in Deakins» arresting widescreen lensing, which alternates between vast aerial canvases that capture the epic sprawl of the border land, and closeups so carefully framed and lit as to show particles of dust dancing on a shaft on sunlight.
In today's video games, the open world is now commonplace - a single, continuous gameplay area that offers a vast canvas for developers to populate, to varying degrees of success.
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.
Brodsky's style channels the heightened realism of 19th century landscape painters; whereas the historical paintings were created on enormous canvases that echoed the vast American landscape, Brodsky's contemporary take condenses the visual impact into a token - sized work that fits in the palm of a hand.
Then in an improvisational approach she unfurls these memories and ideas onto her vast canvases weaving them together to inform the meta narratives which emerge in the spontaneous approach she takes in creating her large scale «abstractions».
Created as part of SFMOMA's new art commissioning program, this site - specific diptych's two vast abstract canvases flank the main staircase in the soaring Haas, Jr..
She is known for her vast and vivid improvised painted canvases, which in her early career were inspired by Jackson Pollock.
Perhaps it was the vast canvas expanse of «Rebus» in my peripheral vision that brought to mind Butler's use of fabric as an independent element, or perhaps it was something deeper; like Rauschenberg's Combines, there is something simultaneously serene and mad about these paintings.
Robert Irwin, who began his career in L.A. in the late fifties as a robust abstract expressionist, modeling vast canvases, today confines himself to spare gestures - subtle manipulations of line, scrim, light - specifically suited to the particulars of the site and context of each new project (the University Art Museum itself will play host to such an installation early next year).
These texts share a room with two vast canvases covered in Cornish clay and Avon mud.
With sheer, confident power and force she channels her energy in an allover onslaught on vast canvases, whose scale also reference the abstract expressionist painters.
The new American painting, by contrast, meant vast canvases by Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, Clyfford Still and others, with a gripping energy and directness, and an emotional impact that, in Rothko's case, reduced some viewers to tears («they are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them,» Rothko explained).
Colen's more recent work with gum strikes out in a new direction: in All Mops and Brooms and Marbles in My Mouth (both 2015), vast quantities of gum have been melted into a sludge - like paste to daub the vast, panoramic canvases.
With its vast vibrant canvases, the Royal Academy's latest exhibition — the first survey of abstract expressionism in Europe in more than 50 years — sheds fresh light on the movement's origins
Using a palette knife loaded with several colors, Sonia applied vast sweeps of paint across her canvases in sensuous, energetic full - body movements.
Color Field painting, which emerged in the United States in the 1950s, is characterized by pouring, staining, spraying or painting thinned paint onto raw canvas to create vast chromatic expanses.
Kenneth Noland, Following Sea, 1974 Acrylic on canvas, 98 x 98 inches February 29 — May 26, 2008 Color field painting, which emerged in the United States in the 1950s, is characterized by pouring, staining, or spraying thinned paint onto raw canvas, creating vast chromatic expanses.
This exhibition presented a vast array of Wu's output: cartoon drawings for newspapers, book cover designs, sketches and portrait paintings made during his five years of study in Paris; poetry, calligraphy, watercolour paintings and oils on canvas, mostly arranged chronologically and organized by media.
Her poetic canvases, vast semi-abstractions in which mosaiclike patches of color were linked by lines into labyrinthine compositions, interested artists of the American Abstract Expressionist school, who first saw her work in New York in 1946.
The visual history of the African diaspora is annotated through the inclusion of three African - American artists, two of whom were born in the 1930s: Mississippi - raised Color Field painter Sam Gilliam shows vast draped canvases saturated in a gradient of color washes.
I have moved on since then, but seeing one of Richard Smith's big multiple shaped canvases at Tate Britain recently, I found I still liked it, and liked it more than Noland's Another Line, on display in the same room, along with a vast, vapid Olitski spray painting, more than 20 feet long, not nearly as good as the ones I've illustrated above.
Painted in 1991, the painting demonstrates one of the most well - known phrases from the artist's celebrated series of joke paintings rendered in silkscreen ink upon a vast, mulberry pink - hued canvas.
Though he felt fenced in at the University of Houston, the vast state spawned a passion for big ideas and a big canvas.
Yet very often the action is all one sees — colossal brushmarks, vast expanses of colour, leviathan swirls, a tundra of impasto, the canvas like raw denim in places, or bearing pounds of pigment in others.
He started working with very large canvases in the late 1960s, hanging vast pieces of painted cloth across walls and ceilings to emphasize the relationship between the work and its environment.
A vast and vertiginous painting by Robert Mangold at Armand Bartos of New York offer the illusion that the wall is falling away — shaped canvas and elliptical calligraphy on a level that make it special in Mangold's oeuvre.
Solo exhibitions include Nest of memories at Vermont studio center, In the vast valley of my heart there is a place..., Green Cardamom gallery London, Placed displaced, misplaced at Rohtas gallery Lahore, There is no hero, Canvas gallery, Karachi.
The newly concentrated dimensions of his canvases and sheets of paper, now being made in a studio measuring just 12 x 14 feet, stand in marked contrast to the vast colour fields and poured monoliths of the 1960s and»70s, demonstrating an artist committed to experimentation with both medium and scale.
Rosenquist worked as a commercial artist and sign - painter in the late 1950s and put this training to use in vast, billboard - style canvases which appropriated images from advertising.
In order to create these semi-abstract paintings the artist applied vast swathes of household gloss paint to the canvas.
In two vast paintings on loose cloth and smaller works on stretched canvas, Grosse continues her use of stencils either to filter or completely block out areas of negative space.
By suspending a stretcherless, often vast length of painted canvas from the walls or ceiling of an exhibition space, Gilliam transformed both his medium and the contexts in which it was viewed.
Twombly made the large - scale work, Treatise on the Veil (Second Version) in the same year, as a vast canvas painting of nearly 33 feet (10 metres).
A small white cloud floats in the upper right, casting a shadow on the ground below, creating a feeling of vast open depth across a real span of canvas that measures about 5 feet.
When interior designer Mallory Mathison Glenn was tasked with decorating a 14,000 - square - foot blank canvas, the spirited designer, known for her pretty punches of color, was more than ready to bring the homeowners» colorful vision to life in their vast Buckhead estate.
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