Sentences with phrase «mere paint on canvas»

Their methods are also diverse, spanning a wide range of possibilities afforded by mere paint on canvas.

Not exact matches

Though this particular painting is on wood panel, it could just as well have been on cotton or linen canvas thus showing that the truth of the matter is that no matter the slightness or grandness of a picture, it is enacted on a mere piece of humble cloth.
Working directly on canvas with no preparatory drawing, Essenhigh's imagery is often triggered by random associations to find the most «convenient» narrative, with entire paintings emerging from the mere hint of a shape.
In «Finger Paintings (YSL, faux CILS)» (2015), with black coloured traces of fingertips on the brownish canvas, these fingers are used as mere mediators that make aimless traces on canvases.
Stella's early stripe paintings demonstrate Stella's acute awareness of the issue of objecthood insofar as those paintings explicitly took painting about as far as it could go (without being a blank expanse of stretched canvas hung on the wall) toward objecthood without declaring their existence as mere objects.
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