Sentences with phrase «nearly bare canvas»
Mr. Elderfield opens by pairing Jasper Johns's 1982 «In the Studio» with Picasso's 1928 «The Studio,» a great match given their intimations of real and depicted bodies and their shifting combinations of white paint and bare or nearly bare canvas to depict walls, art and studio table.
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At the start is the deathly glamour of Stella's Black Paintings — bands in matte enamel, separated by fuzzy pinstripes of nearly bare canvas — which shocked everyone with their dour simplicity when they appeared in a show at the Museum of Modern Art, in 1959.