Sentences with phrase «like bare canvas»

More often than not, what looks like bare canvas holds washes of oil.

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.

Those thin outlines are white, not bare canvas, because Williams does not derive his image, like a proper formalist, from the art object, but rather from experience.

Like a considerate and attentive storyteller, Svenja Deininger often leaves a portion of the canvas bare of paint.

A 1995 work, so cartoon - like that you almost expect a caption, is mostly a big, tilting expanse of bare canvas — a floor — extending toward a far - off green wall dotted with numerous tiny paintings.

She worked within a grid, like the color charts of Josef Albers, or with brushstrokes separated by horizontal rules and bare canvas.

Her signature graffiti - like markings, often bright flashes of neon, are here executed in quick, curved black outlines that penetrate through faux pixels, atop a bare canvas surface.

In the strongest work in this show, what look like cut - up scraps of painted canvas are really thick swaths of acrylic paint, peeled off a flat surface and draped over bare wood stretcher bars leaning against the wall.

They want badly to be more than paintings — see how many of the scalloped shapes lift off the support like feathers summoning flight while exposing not bare canvas but reflective Mylar — but they air that complaint in whispers, not stage screams, despite Yates» parallel practice making indie - rock posters.

A bare canvas scrawled with snaking clouds of smoke, explosions, Roman and Arabic numerals, and what looks like a vagina dabbed with vermillion paint, the piece has an asking price of $ 12 million, according to Nicholas Acquavella, scion of the namesake proprietor.