Sentences with phrase «into bare canvas»

Also of critical importance was Louis» introduction to Helen Frankenthaler (by Greenberg) and his viewing of her painting Mountains and Sea (1952) in which she had explored the possibilities of staining thinned colors into bare canvas.

In the black pourings Pollock was sometimes letting the paint bleed into bare canvas — and this was a precursor to Colour Field painters, such as Helen Frankenthaler Hon RA.

Not exact matches

Those curved areas may look back to Henri Matisse as well, pressed against a painting's edge like the leg and torso of a grand nude — even as that very edge takes on a touch of bare canvas that seems to change its dimensions and to divide a painting into two slightly misaligned panels.

They include Ryman's impasto white oils from before 1960, which turn the bare canvas into another element of color.

Well into the 1990s, glazes cover some of the curves, emphasizing the layering and translucency of oil, and Marden never, ever accepts bare canvas or linen.

He shoots directly into the sun, giving space between the trees the reality and potential of a drip painting's bare canvas.

Anne Doran displays the bullet - ridden torsos of police target practice, Linder treats female nudity to Pop Art and Surrealism, Stephen Irwin converts its scars into slashed canvas, and Naomi Uman strips it bare of everything but a picture tube.

The «split» Veils reveal bare canvas between the poured bands, and the «triadic» Veils resemble a triptych, as the two braces of the stretcher leave vertical lines that divide the canvas into three sections.

In one instance, two works hanging side by side: Sign (potentially the most minimal in the show, a series of pencil lines on bare white canvas) and Date act as a visual diptych, the former's clean diagonals echoed as murky chemical smears, nighttime urbanity congealed into acrylic.