Sentences with phrase «not shaped canvases»

Not exact matches

Gottlieb, for instance, tells Goodnough that painting is «not only a matter of colors and shapes on canvas, but images made visible and integrated» (p. 58) while Baziotes gives a contradictory statement, remarking that «reference to existing objects is not particularly helpful in contemporary painting.»

It isn't true, as has been alleged, that Kelly invented the shaped canvas.

(No, shaped canvases aren't rare, but they are unconventional.)

I had not recognized the light that Dorothea Rockburne can bring to shaped canvas.

This is not, however, to say that there is no visible progression in Poliakoff's work, for the series of four canvases on the main wall, each titled Composition abstraite (1968) and each linked by a recurring claw - like shape, are undoubtedly the most accomplished of the show.

Kelly's shaped canvases would not survive such a stringent test; they are dependent on the spaces where they are displayed.

With its placement in chevrons, circles, stripes and shaped canvas motifs that Mr. Noland favors, it has no truck with symbolism or storytelling, and certainly not with a message of any kind.

However they use a wider range of colors, and are his first works using shaped canvases (canvases in a shape other than the traditional rectangle or square), often being in L, N, U or T - shapes.

Their art does not need shaped canvas to reshape the rectangle.

The older canvases on view were specifically by the Washington Color School artists, now remembered mostly for their dyed - canvas technique and status as an armament in Clement Greenberg's about - face on Abstract Expressionism, and included revelatory shaped paintings by Kenneth Noland, an almost - not - there Helen Frankenthaler, and this megawatt Jules Olitski.

Katharina Grosse applies it to canvas and aluminum with a spray gun, where scale and electric hues supply an energy that the arbitrary shapes and drips may not.

I keep coming back to that hybrid, not solely with shaped canvas and its heirs.

No one is going to match the rigor, energy, and humor of Frank Stella and Elizabeth Murray with actual shaped canvas, and that does not count the sheer feat of its construction.

For a take on shaped canvas, although a canvas shaped not by a stretcher, but by bare hands and its own weight, one might turn instead to Al Loving.

Vicente's palette lightened in the»50s and»60s, with canvases like «N» from 1959, which includes passages of electric green, orange and yellow, or «Princeton No. 5» from 1966, with its vaguely biomorphic collagelike shapes vibrating in a bright field.

Artie Vierkant works with shaped canvas, except that it is not shaped and not canvas.

«A single facet or canvas may have its own color, or the shadow across it may serve as color -LRB-...) Sometimes the color solely belongs to the edge of a work, or so it seems, until one notices that Hinman has painted the back -LRB-...) He is not just shaping an object, but also taking it out from the wall.»

This statement applies more, if not most, to the five darker paintings stretched on canvas than it does to the two far superior pieces tacked to the wall on un-stretched canvas which feature lighter cloudlike shapes on an otherwise white background.

Not strictly a minimalist, he has made a number of monochrome paintings on shaped canvases and single color rectangular panels.

These large - scale, dark - toned pieces usually contain ominous, organic voids at their centers and are made from patching together accumulations of shaped canvases, leather, porcelain curios, wire mesh, conveyer belts and muslin recall nests.

The shape of KAWS's Snoopy canvases is not derived from the straight forward abstraction «post-painterly» artists championed but from guration; they are abstracted cartoon silhouettes not clearly rendered within the pictorial eld.

Interestingly, Smirnova doesn't just stick to cotton canvases; she also loves to stitch interesting patterns and shapes onto clothing and home accessories, adding interest to jumpers, cardigans and cushions.

Justine Hill's «Paper Doll 3 (Tiki)» (2015) required not just a good deal of forethought but also a disciplined application of craft, shaping a wood panel into a ragged ovoid before wrapping it in canvas and applying acrylic, pastel and pencil.

You had to stand in front of the blank canvas, you couldn't know in advance that there was going to be a yellow shape over there.

Mangold became known for his use of shaped canvases, often creating works of art that weren't merely square, but that incorporated the shape of the piece in order to enhance the painting.

To comment on the fastidious geometry of Stella's work is not to claim its total austerity; his works luxuriate in explorations of endless combinations of colors and forms, often on unconventionally shaped canvases.

Richard Tuttle's «W - Shaped Yellow Canvas» (1967), a dyed, unstretched canvas cut into a shape suggestive of a long, open rectangle folded over on itself, retains a handmade quality not associated with the term «minimalism.&Canvas» (1967), a dyed, unstretched canvas cut into a shape suggestive of a long, open rectangle folded over on itself, retains a handmade quality not associated with the term «minimalism.&canvas cut into a shape suggestive of a long, open rectangle folded over on itself, retains a handmade quality not associated with the term «minimalism.»

In 1968 I had been doing my own aggressively shaped canvases which projected from 2D to 3D, influenced not by Noland but by Richard Smith... of whom I wrote — «The final step in the development of what are now amongst the best paintings being made, was the increasing use of three dimensional frontal depth perspective, which allowed the colour to take its place in the surface, which could be shaped and bent in perspective and geometry.

He didn't stay within the academic confines of shaped canvases, like Stella and so many others.

A half - dozen shaped canvases that helped make Lukin's reputation show here what all the fuss was about: not just the fact of the wall - to - floor connection, but the powerful, sensuous, and often funny shapes and weird palette, balancing luminous hues with shades of gray, he commanded with such authority.

Part II: Unreasonable Sized Paintings at SVA Chelsea Gallery does not, in this instance, refer to unorthodox variations in canvas shape or size, but rather to particular occasions where painters, who otherwise produce larger works, feel compelled to make paintings approximately within this modest scale — occasions that are often less influenced by reason than by the need to concretize, without limitation, pure emotion or spontaneous thoughts.

Heron is only one of many who realised that flattish abstract shapes on a canvas look a bit like maps or aerial views (there is a thematic show on somewhere about this, isn't there, with Lanyon and Davie and other glider enthusiasts?).

I have moved on since then, but seeing one of Richard Smith's big multiple shaped canvases at Tate Britain recently, I found I still liked it, and liked it more than Noland's Another Line, on display in the same room, along with a vast, vapid Olitski spray painting, more than 20 feet long, not nearly as good as the ones I've illustrated above.

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.

The artist also used the pointillism method, a technique developed by impressionist artist George Seurat and Paul Signa.From afar your eyes would only notice a composition of perfectly aligned contrasting shapes on canvas, but once up close you will see the different textures and hidden colors you weren't aware of.

Although she is not at the center of the image, her presence is unmistakable, determining the complex shape of the canvas.

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.

Since a museum's schedule is booked years in advance, Grynsztejn won't get to organize her first big show until spring 2004, a retrospective of American postminimalist Richard Tuttle, though she has just installed an unstretched shaped canvas by Tuttle in the permanent galleries next to the Smithson.

In the 1960s, he used aluminum and copper paint and began making differently shaped canvases; not using the typical, and readily available, rectangular or square shapes.

«It was supposed to be one painting, but it was so large I had to wrap it around the corner of my studio and in that process it messed up the middle, where I couldn't get the canvas to go back to the shape.

The syntax and pacing of this elegantly hung exhibition includes not just the polysyllabic nouns of the large verticals (90 1/2 by 59 inches) but small - scale conjunctions of shaped canvases (a mere 11 by 8 1/4 inches in one case).

It wasn't clear to me because there were no shaped canvases that I was aware of in the world at that point; but the work had that quality.

Paul Reed has created luminous paintings — stretched, not stretched, square, rectangular and dynamically shaped, on canvas, muslin and paper — that explored transparency through a range of subject matter spanning mandalas, biomorphic shapes, discs and geometric abstractions.

There seemed at that time to be no emotional need that could not be satisfied by the chevron, the diamond, the irregularly shaped canvas and, as of 1967, the long, narrow, horizontal striped images that stretched out forever.

While Laget doesn't plan out her colors in advance, she does make her own swatches of colors and consider them carefully before applying paint to a shaped canvas.

Rail: Other painters have reconfigured the shape of the canvas in the seventies, such as [Ron] Gorchov and [Ralph] Humphrey, not to mention [Ellsworth] Kelly.

But I knew where I stood, and wasn't afraid of the problem... Although these are the most radically shaped of the canvases they are also the most rectilinear in a way.

... I don't think it was an accident that I started shaping canvases at that crisis time in my life.

The abundance of personality makes it look like Murray is working backward from abstraction toward representation, not in terms of imagery per se, but in terms of energy; some shapes seem ready to jump right off the canvas and strut away.

The latest — a bright panoply of Op Art, shaped paintings and stained canvases — features artists known, sort of and not at all, including Richard Anuszkiewicz, Alvin Loving Jr., Paul Jenkins, Julian Stanczak and Bill Komodore.