The Black Paintings were Hedrick's protest against the Vietnam War in which he took about 50
of his early canvases and painted them in heavy layers of black oil paint.
New Yorkers can see Corse's work at the Guggenheim Museum, where one
of her early canvases appeared in «Surface, Support, Process: The 1960s Monochrome» [closes today] or visit the Lehmann Maupin Gallery in Chelsea to bask in the quiet glow of her newest paintings [on view through March 10].
The curator Elizabeth Armstrong has included 10
of his early canvases in «Birth of the Cool» at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, opening Sunday.
At the time, they were already fans of the artist, but were astonished to discover a mass
of early canvases they'd never known about.
[10] Hedrick took «about 50» [60]
of his early canvases and painted them black.
Evoking the rebellious post-Pop aesthetic of New York, Laska often incorporates recycled waste materials and found objects into her paintings, sometimes reworking parts
of earlier canvases entirely.
Some of them were kind of spiritual, like Simon Hantaï, who was actually Hungarian, Catholic, and wrote the Catholic liturgy onto the ground
of an early canvas.
She returned to New York and adapted the sprawling vortex of dark lines and shapes characteristic
of her earlier canvases into a denser structure that floats equivocally across a field of white.
Not exact matches
I have long remembered the remark
of a notable art critic — though I have forgotten which one — that many modernist paintings could be understood as fragments
of classical painting blown up for their own sake, displaying the formal and technical elements by which painting is accomplished but eschewing the narrative depiction within which such patches
of paint on
canvas would
earlier have had their place.
Promising that the film will be as hyperreal and hallucinatory as his
earlier work, Odoul sees the film as «following a subjective point
of view and a trajectory, crossing a landscape rather than giving us a broad
canvas or attempting to depict the battlefield.»
Also ported over are features on the history and development
of «Tarzan,» among them segments on the Deep
Canvas Process, Production Progression Demonstration, three publicity trailers, From Burroughs to Disney, an
Early Presentation Reel, a short feature on the Research Trip to Uganda, six segments on creating The Characters
of Tarzan, a three - minute bit on The Making
of the Music, Building the Story and Storyboard to Film featurettes, 10 minutes
of deleted and alternate scenes, and a couple tidbits on the international / intercontinental aspects
of «Tarzan.»
At an
early age, a fragile Lewis overcame the physical challenges
of crippling arthritis to lift brush to
canvas without any formal training.
But as Ronnie Scheib — who reviewed Monday Morning for the Reader when it showed at the Chicago International Film Festival last fall, declaring it a masterpiece — aptly noted, «Though often compared to Tati, Iosseliani depends less on a central comic actor than on limpid compositions
of collective portraiture, like the social
canvases of Bunuel or
early Jean Renoir.»
Set in Paris in the
early 1990s, this terrific drama is a large -
canvas, richly coloured docudrama about the
early members
of the French branch
of Act Up, the Aids activism group.
Defender Concept 100 Sport takes all these key design cues and adds to them the spirit
of freedom first embodied by the
early canvas - roofed Land Rovers with their fold - down windscreens.
Instead
of the Ford's folding
canvas top, the Lincoln Mark X had a retractible roof, which seemingly every manufacturer was trying to build in the
early 2000s.
The
canvas Morse had prepared measured six by nine feet, making it greater in size than his House
of Representatives
of a decade
earlier.
Brand, Business Model
Canvas, Business Models, Due Diligence,
Early Stage Startups, Economic Moat, Innovation, Intangibles, Intellectual Property, Investment Analysis, Margin
of Safety, Persuasion, Strategy, Venture Capital
His
early dyed - and - sewn
canvas pieces, which sold for $ 450 in the 1960s, now bring $ 200,000, while wood works that sold for $ 450 in 1965 are reaching $ 450,000, and a 1966 installation
of the 26 letters
of the alphabet, composed
of soldered tin, sold at auction to MoMA for $ 1 million.
In the
early years his imagery fixed on actual objects — workmen's tools, bathroom appliances, household appurtenances, pieces
of clothing — affixed on blank
canvases or incorporated in constructions that proved both theatrical and daring.
John Yau, however, recently noted that the forms in Held's
early 60s paintings, such as The Yellow X, extend beyond the picture plane, creating an awareness
of the environment beyond the
canvas edge.
Opening: Sadie Laska at CANADA Following her group show at Gavin Brown's Enterprise
earlier this year, Sadie Laska (who performs in the sound band I.U.D. along with artist Lizzie Bougatsos) will display more
of her explosive abstract
canvases in her third solo show to date.
Frankenthaler, energized by Jackson Pollock's all - over method
of painting, pioneered the technique
of pouring paint onto unprimed
canvas early in her career.
In the center
of the booth is the 1963 piece Untitled (Four Fur Cutting Boards), a large construction, in the form
of a moving, folding screen, that became the backdrop to Schneemann's
early and iconic experiments using her body as both
canvas and material.
The assertion that the Cubist depiction
of space, mass, time, and volume supports (rather than contradicts) the flatness
of the
canvas was made by Daniel - Henry Kahnweiler as
early as 1920, [12] but it was subject to criticism in the 1950s and 1960s, especially by Clement Greenberg.
It includes paint on
canvas and bronze sculptures, both staples
of earlier abstract art.
Her latest
canvases in bold, colorful patterns, which she completes at a ferocious pace, retail in the mid — six figures at New York's Gagosian Gallery and London's Victoria Miro; one
of her rare
early paintings sold at auction in November 2008 for $ 5.79 million, a record at the time for a living woman artist.
Among the exhibition's many highlights are bold, groundbreaking paintings by Matisse from his most adventurous years, as well as highlights from nearly every phase
of Diebenkorn's oeuvre from the
early 1950s to 1980 — including several monumental
canvases from his Ocean Park series, a renowned exploration
of color, light, and space.
Built with wood, cardboard,
canvas, foam, and various found or store - bought items, these 3 - D works are the physical manifestation
of her 2 - D imagery, exuding a comic and clunky theatricality that one might associate with
early Claes Oldenburg.
Unlike her
early paintings, this small group
of works shows West's increasing experiments with more varied compositional patterns and the drama
of forceful brushstrokes, usually black against white unprimed
canvas.
The whereabouts
of the painting after the Armory Show is unclear, but in 2005 the work was exhibited in a major Bluemner exhibition that Barbara Haskell organized at the Whitney Museum
of American Art in New York, and while the accompanying catalogue indicates that the painting is one
of the 1911 — 1912
canvases that Bluemner reworked in 1916 — 1917, it does not identify the
earlier painting as the one that was in the Armory Show.
That year, Stella also exhibited a series
of 30 - year - old sketchings he made in Spain in the
early 1960s that disclosed how he worked out ideas about shaped
canvases.
Highlights range from the artist's Social Realist paintings and drawings
of the 1930s and 1940s, to major Abstract Expressionist
canvases of the 1950s and 1960s, and finally to the geometrically inspired paintings
of the 1970s and
early 1980s.
Take Michel Majerus's Tron 3 (ocker Pantone 143)(1999), which dovetails a silk - screened vignette
of early digital - era graphics into the corner
of a square
of yellow emulsion: if you removed the silk - screened
canvas and completed the square, it could have been a wall painting by Günther Förg, an artist
of the gallery's original programme.
As in
earlier works drawing is achieved via construction, lines are real, the edges
of joined or overlapping parts but the plywood gives the «drawing» more precision, more clarity when compared with lines created in
earlier paintings by joining or grouping
canvases, which are inherently softer.
At yesterday's press preview, Massimiliano Gioni, the museum's artistic director and co-curator
of the ambitious exhibition, recommended that the works be viewed beginning on the second floor where
early canvases for which Ofili is best known are on view, and then progressing on to the third and fourth floors.
Despite the strong presence
of artists like Franz Kline in her abstractions
of the
early - to - mid-1950s, Betty Parsons, the legendary Manhattan - based art dealer, saw enough in Martin's
canvases to take her on in 1957; she also encouraged the artist to move to New York.
ACQUISITION In
early January, the Brooklyn Museum announces the acquisition
of its first Beauford Delaney painting, «Untitled (Fang, Crow, and Fruit),» a 1945 oil on
canvas still life (shown above), purchased from Michael Rosenfeld Gallery with money from the museum's African American Purchase Fund.
It has become a commonplace that Stella peaked too
early, and that the deep - thinking black paintings and other inexpressive
canvases of the 1960s have more virtue than the hulking late works, whose swooping forms seem more pedestrian.
Tracing the evolution
of Green's work from monochromatic
canvases of the
early 1970s to recent explorations
of black and white, the exhibition includes 18 paintings and 52 works on paper, including works borrowed from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Corcoran Gallery
of Art in Washington, D.C. Resonating emphasizes Green's complex understanding
of painting that is based on a combination
of Aboriginal and Modern Western approaches.
Although a better understanding
of Oh's work would be a comparison with Richard Tuttle's
early career, which smacked
of formalism (the shaped
canvas pinned to the wall, bent wires with false shadows) but in the end were completely intuitive.
While
early practitioners such as Robert Mangold embraced a minimal sensibility, the next generation
of artists such as Elizabeth Murray and Ralph Humphrey further evolved the practice; Murray's
canvases are explosive and energetic, and Humphrey's paintings are tactile, with thick and textured surfaces.
Understood in their broadest definition, the drawings and photographs assembled here include a wide range
of material, among which are an 1864 photograph
of the forest
of Fontainebleau by the little - known French photographer Constant Alexandre Famin; a pastel completed
earlier this year by Jasper Johns; a 3 x 5 inch Cezanne figure drawing; a new 6 1/2 x 10 foot landscape drawing by Ugo Rondinone; a digitally - manipulated photograph
of the musician Björk by Inez van Lamsweerde; a small piece by an outsider artist known as the «Philadelphia Wireman,» who carefully bound his drawings up with bits
of wire so they are barely visible; a recent charcoal on
canvas by Gary Hume; and a 1949 sketchbook by Tony Smith.
The first group
of paintings are constructed from stretched
canvas and linen bags once used for transporting currency; they are reminiscent
of Robert Rauschenberg's Combine paintings from the
early 1970's.
Rich, flat fields
of color fill many
of her
canvases, reflecting the influence
of two
of Green's
early teachers, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell.
FAITH RINGGOLD, Installation view
of «Black Light Series # 10, Flag for the Moon: Die Nigger,» 1967/69 (oil on
canvas), was on view in «Faith Ringgold's America:
Early Works and Story Quilts» at ACA Galleries in New York.
Covering the full breadth
of her practice, this extensive exhibition will reveal Martin's
early and little known experiments with different media and trace her development from abstraction to grids and striped
canvases that became her hallmark.
This array is a development from KAWS» exhibition at Kaikai Kiki Gallery
earlier this year, where that melange
of shadowy body parts is endlessly abstracted by their shaped
canvases here.
The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore present an exhibition featuring works from every period in painter Alma Thomas's career, including rarely exhibited watercolors and
early abstractions, as well as her signature
canvases drawn from a variety
of private and public collections.
I think
of early tacked on
canvases of Richard Tuttle but then there is a hint
of Arte Povera,
early Minimalism, and even Color Field.