Mokha Laget's new work creates illusions of 3D structures floating in space Mokha Laget is excited about the direction her work has taken this year and thrilled to be showing
her latest shaped paintings at David Richard Gallery in the show «In Shape, In Color,» which opens on September 8.
Not exact matches
I haven't mentioned Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald, edited by Welty biographer Suzanne Marrs and Macdonald biographer Tom Nolan (the most touching collection of letters I've read in years), or the
latest volume in The Complete Letters of Henry James, or Catherine Lampert's superb Frank Auerbach: Speaking and
Painting (which the painter Bruce Herman will be writing about for Books & Culture), or James Curtis's fascinating and beautifully produced William Cameron Menzies: The
Shape of Films to Come.
The document stresses both mothers» and fathers» importance as educators, making clear that when fathers and mothers talk, play, read,
paint, investigate numbers and
shapes or sing with their children it has a positive effect on children's
later development — and that mums» and dads» involvement in reading is the most important determinant of their child's early language and literacy skills.
You could also use plain blue construction paper and let them go crazy with the puffy
paint and then cut them into cloud
shapes later or leave the paper as is.
Sadly, it just some concept artwork and not any actual screens from the game, which isn't slated to release until 2010, but it still
paints a (pretty) picture of how the
latest addition to the series is
shaping up.
He revolutionized
painting in 1959 and 1960 with his stripe
paintings and
later his
shaped canvasses.
Even earlier works like Fable II and Rite, both from 1957, earn their titles by the nonspecific figurative connotations of their bunched
shapes; it would take only a little bit of further manipulation to turn those forms into the kind of stylized figures found in the
paintings that Jan Müller was making around this time, or Bob Thompson just a little
later.
And so at the moment about two dozen of Ms. Crockett's sparkling
late paintings, with their bright tangles of jazzy lines and
shapes floating on pale, brushy backgrounds, form a surprising exhibition at Meredith Ward Fine Art.
Throughout Resonating, viewers will note Green's various uses of a fan
shape: in early works such as For All & None (1978), the fan acts as an essential symbol, suggestive of deeper spiritual meaning; in Taxes (1993), one of her
later black and white
paintings, the fan
shape becomes a central formal element that unifies the composition; in She Dreams (1996), the fan
shapes create a complex formal variation which co-exists with other images.
Murray introduced her first serious series of thickly
painted,
shaped canvases in the
late «70s.
Nearly all the
paintings in this show of recent work by Geoff Hippenstiel, a Houston - based painter in his
late 30s, feature a single massive
shape occupying most of the available space.
Characterized by mathematically complex compositions of color,
shape and dizzying pattern, the term «Op Art,» was first used by artist Donald Judd in his review of Julian Stanczak's «Optical
Paintings,» and was
later popularized by a 1964 Time magazine article, catapulted the term into main - stream use.
The Subject and Me tells the story of the turbulent events that
shaped Alice Neel's life, through a retrospective of drawings and selection of
late paintings.
Active in the Post-Sense Sensation events from the
late 1990s, his work has explored a wide range of mediums from
painting to film, installation and sculpture as he gradually
shaped a unique artistic approach that has garnered increasing acclaim across the world.
The earliest examples — the Aluminium
Paintings (1960) and Copper
Paintings (1960 - 1961), were followed by works that extended the concept of the
shaped canvas, including the Irregular Polygon canvases (1965 - 67) and the
later Protractor series (1967 - 71).
In Twisted Figures, his third solo show at 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, Hughes's
latest series of acrylic
paintings pushes this language into a new phase in which the
shapes on the canvases continue to self - confidently assert their own presence, yet begin to move beyond an earlier, more matter - of - fact reliance on organic and visceral associations.
Their formal appearance of window
shapes bring to mind Max Beckmann's
paintings from his exile years in the United States in the
late forties, which often depicted window tableaus.
Following the developments of Cubist and Futurist
painting — in which the natural world was translated into a stark pictorial language of
shapes, lines, and angles — Russia was one of the primary breeding grounds of pure abstraction, with Wassily Kandinsky doing much to popularize geometric art before gravitating to the gestural camp in
later years.
In many ways, Yamaguchi's
latest paintings appear to be a departure from her past work, but upon reflection her concerns are similar — how to merge
shapes and textures into a seamless composition.
Influences converged, passion and intellect were engaged, and seminal moments occurred to help
shape the process: in 1962 when Irving Blum (who had taken over Kienholtz's position at the gallery) gave Andy Warhol his first solo gallery exhibition ever at Ferus (the Campbell's Soup Can
Paintings); in 1963, when Hopps moved to the Pasadena Art Museum and presented the first retrospective of Marcel Duchamp in the US; in 1966 with Ed Kienholtz's epochal retrospective at the LA County Museum; and in the decade from the
late fifties to the
late sixties when Ed Moses, Billy Al Bengston, and Ed Ruscha among a handful of others were on center stage.
One of the pioneers of Color Field
Painting, Rothko's abstract arrangements of
shapes, ranging from the slightly surreal biomorphic ones in his early works to the dark squares and rectangles in
later years, are intended to evoke the metaphysical through viewers» communion with the canvas in a controlled setting.
This exhibition, specially conceived by the artist for the Lisson space, will include two of the
latest wall
paintings within the main ground floor gallery that will face each other across the L -
shaped exhibition space.
The exhibition is one of Stella's largest to date, spanning around 100 works and his entire career, from the «Black
Paintings» that propelled him into the art historical canon, to his
later works, controversially exuberant mash - ups of
shapes, gestures, and styles.
The early
paintings are blocks of color and
shapes that are based on things and scenes that Judd saw,
later he moved to abstract
shapes without the references and this in turn became
shapes on fields.
His
later paintings returned to the pared - down balance and stark
shapes of previous years, often touched with hints of surrealism, yet always recognisably his own.
During the
late 1960s, Guston became frustrated with the limitations of abstraction and returned to figurative
painting, amassing a potent language of motifs whose roots can be seen in the forms and
shapes of Traveler III, and illustrating what Christoph Schreier refers to as subcutaneous figuration.2 Following his 1966 exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York, Guston relocated to Woodstock, New York, embarking on what would become a two - year hiatus from
painting.
Running alongside the EY
Late Turner exhibition until the 25th of January, this new series of
paintings in the form of doughnut
shaped canvases are Eliasson's response to these seven works by J.M.W. Turner.
By the
late 1950s, he taught at Hunter College in New York City and he developed a singular style of
painting that focused on intense color and simple geometric
shapes.
The first
shaped canvases have a scale, creepiness, and beauty that stand out compared to the fussiness of her
paintings from the early 1970s and of her
later work as well.
Youngerman began working with these elegantly carved
shapes in the 1970s; the piece at the Parrish combines the gestural form that is reminiscent of his earlier work, with the boldness of color and central configuration of his
later plywood
paintings.
While his first
shaped canvases were determined by the silhouette of a single depicted object, as in the Smoker series,
later works such as Nude with Lamp are
shaped according to their own logic, rather than that of the
painted image, utilizing the blank space of the bare wall behind.
Highlights of the exhibition include mixed - media works from his Great American Nude and Still Life series» of the 1960s,
shaped «Smoker» and «Bedroom
Painting» canvases from the 1970s and «80s and his inventive cut - aluminum wall works and
later «Sunset Nude»
paintings, which paid homage to artists that Mr. Wesselmann admired.
Many of his
later paintings and works on paper shifted toward «romantic symbolism», and their titles can be interpreted visually through
shapes and forms and words.
Effulgent in their gorgeous, low - toned palette of greys, mauves, greens and a whole range of pinks that are Avery's trademark, these
late paintings appear modest and even simple — the
shapes flattened and nearly blunt, but balanced in the most elegant compositions.
His
paintings of hawsers, lobster buoys, anchor chains and boat gear now look like a farewell nod to Guston,
late Guston in which the master piled natural forms — cherries in a nod to Chardin's strawberries — and geometric
shapes arranged with a startling muscular logic.
The artist retained the irregular forms of his «
shaped canvases» of the
late 1960s, but replaced the minimalism of his earlier
paintings with three - dimensional reliefs that project forwards from the picture plane into the surrounding space.
Gund decided to give a Frank Stella star -
shaped painting called Plant City, which had roosted beside the fireplace, to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in memory of its
late director Anne d'Harnoncourt.
Rather than
painting thickly with opaque
paint, Frankenthaler used oil and then
later, acrylic
paint, thinly like watercolor, pouring it onto raw canvas and letting it soak and stain the canvas, flowing into
shapes of flat translucent color.
Made by cutting and tearing
shapes from paper hand
painted by his assistants in a range of bright colours, Matisse began experimenting with this cut - out method in the
late 1930s, adopting it wholeheartedly by the
late 1940s when ill health prevented him from
painting.
Mark Rothkoâ $ ™ s search to express profound emotion through
painting culminated in his now - signature compositions of richly colored squares filling large canvases, evoking what he referred to as â $ the sublime.â $ One of the pioneers of Color Field Painting, Rothkoâ $ ™ s abstract arrangements of shapes, ranging from the slightly surreal biomorphic ones in his early works to the dark squares and rectangles in later years, are intended to evoke the metaphysical through viewersâ $ ™ communion with the canvas in a controlled
painting culminated in his now - signature compositions of richly colored squares filling large canvases, evoking what he referred to as â $ the sublime.â $ One of the pioneers of Color Field
Painting, Rothkoâ $ ™ s abstract arrangements of shapes, ranging from the slightly surreal biomorphic ones in his early works to the dark squares and rectangles in later years, are intended to evoke the metaphysical through viewersâ $ ™ communion with the canvas in a controlled
Painting, Rothkoâ $ ™ s abstract arrangements of
shapes, ranging from the slightly surreal biomorphic ones in his early works to the dark squares and rectangles in
later years, are intended to evoke the metaphysical through viewersâ $ ™ communion with the canvas in a controlled setting.
In the
late 1960s, he began making oil - on - linen
paintings on distinctive saddle - like stretchers, at once concave and convex, featuring one or two biomorphic
shapes against differently colored backgrounds.
Paul Cézanne's
late 19th - century
paintings reduced the world to basic
shapes — spheres, cylinders and cones.
Pindell revolutionized
painting from her early, radical explorations of color and
shape to her
later work that expanded to address human rights injustices such as war, famine, homelessness, racism, and the AIDs crisis.
The two exhibitions pay tribute to the
late artist, whose idiosyncratic
paintings have helped to
shape the course of art since the mid-20th century.
His output in the 1940s focused primarily on geometric
shapes, advancing to
paintings rendered in a single color after which he developed his signature black
paintings in the
late 1950s.
Dubuffet had a capacity for self - renewal and his
paintings continued to evolve, but it was only in his
later years that they became less constructed and more fluid, every surface covered with dense colors,
shapes, and images.
While his first
shaped canvases were determined by the silhouette of a single depicted object, as in the «Smoker» series,
later works are
shaped according to their own logic, rather than that of the
painted image, utilizing the blank space of the bare wall behind.
Noland's final solo exhibition, Kenneth Noland
Shaped Paintings 1981 - 82, opened on October 29, 2009 at the Leslie Feely Fine Art Gallery on E. 68th St. in New York City and was scheduled to close on January 9, 2010, though the closing date was
later extended to January 16.
Black -
painted and Gilt - lettered «MISS M.F. HASKINS MILLINERY» Trade Sign, America,
late 19th century, double - sided
shaped sign with rounded ends, ovolo corners, and chamfered edges, the lettering More...
A few steps
later, you realise that the figure is also facing a long black stage, which is covered with a collection of other creepy objects: an immensely long stuffed man, drooping miserably across a large, badly
painted canvas of two more nasty figures; a paper human head
shape containing thoughts of a shit - smeared builder, and below, his bared bottom; a gathering of toy babies; a cartoonish
painting of a little boy hitting a drum.