Sentences with phrase «literal center of the painting»

I have long admired Mumford's virtuosic ability to push the paint around, and one of my favorite passages in this work is found at some distance from the kneeling American soldier who is the narrative if not literal center of the painting.

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Here, the artist initially painted rectangular «frames» of color extending to her pictures» literal edges; within a few years, however, she began pulling these frames back toward the center of the canvas.