Sentences with phrase «literal shape of the canvas»

The paintings starkly contrast the literal shape of the canvas stretcher with the depicted shape painted on it.

Not exact matches

Titled the «Wooster» series for the location of this revelation, these geometric forms with hard edges furthered the artist's exploration of shaped canvases, formalist elements of the line, and literal as well as depicted shapes.

Among the dominant trends in the Post-Painterly Abstraction are Hard - Edged Painters such as Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella who explored relationships between tightly ruled shapes and edges, in Stella's case, between the shapes depicted on the surface and the literal shape of the support and Color - Field Painters such as Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis, who stained first Magna then water - based acrylic paints into unprimed canvas, exploring tactile and optical aspects of large, vivid fields of pure, open color.

The shaped canvases of the Copper and Aluminum Paintings (completed between 1960 and 1962) are just as funny as their black counterparts, if not more so — especially «Avicenna» (1960), made from aluminum oil paint on canvas with a literal hole in its middle.