Characterized by straight and curving shapes of color and the use
of tondo (round) canvases, by the 1960s Smith's circular explorations culminated in his shaped, multi-part Constellation series of paintings and drawings, among his most exuberant and inventive compositions.
While Jorden's work nods to what came before it (let's not forget the prevalence
of the tondo in Renaissance art!)
By 1967, convexity had become the dominant feature in a series
of tondo - shaped paintings made from aluminum and acrylic discs that project out from the wall.
Scarlet poppies fill the foreground
of this tondo - shaped work.
Each artist will be represented by multiple paintings including a new series
of tondos by Lenaghan and four pastels by Jacquette.
Not exact matches
We are conscious
of the fact that a lot
of well
tondo people in Yoruba land also have their cattle breeding contracted to the Fulani herdsmen, we therefore implore all Yorubas in this category to withdraw their cattle with immediate effect and establish ranches, pens or byres for their cattle breeding.
This exhibition
of marble
tondos, each inscribed with one
of the «13 Tenets
of Future Feminism,» is elegant and subdued.
Caroline Kha uses the term «transcriptive painting» to describe parts
of her practice that include small silverpoint
tondos of islands found on Google Earth, monochrome paintings
of mountainscapes sourced from websites, and transcriptions
of Rembrandt paintings made at The National Gallery in London.
In 2005 he won first prize and the resulting commissioned
tondo of Kids Company founder Camila Batmanghelidjh is now part
of the permanent collection.
They help Ben Gocker, whose thickly gessoed circle converts an unfinished Renaissance
tondo into finished wreckage
of its own.
His Adoration
of the Child (c. 1495 — 1500), a portrayal
of the Virgin praying before the infant Jesus, has been given emphasis at the Frick through the clarity
of its lighting, the centrality
of its location and the concordance between the oval gallery in which it is displayed, and its
tondo format.
The exhibition at Telfair Museums features a selection
of soundsuits made in the past decade, as well as two
tondos — large circular works evoking the night sky and the cosmos — and two recent videos documenting the soundsuits and their use in performance.
Think
of a Renaissance
tondo, or circular painting — or a medieval Crucifix.
In other recent works Smith paints
tondos of broken plates.
Much
of it works perfectly well as abstraction, including
tondos, or round paintings, that might serve as bundling for characters unseen.
Indeed, among the highlights are some captivating pieces by women, such as the
tondo Black and White II (1960) by Cuban - born New York painter Carmen Herrera, who, at age 100, will be the subject
of an upcoming retrospective at the Whitney Museum
of American Art.
More unexpected still, Howardena Pindell creates a
tondo from hole - punched paper and smears
of color.
Of the five distinct Rondinones in this exhibition, one contributed three very large tondo paintings (all works 1999 — 2000 or 2000): concentric bands of color à la Kenneth Noland but executed with a spray gun so that the circles look blurred, out of focu
Of the five distinct Rondinones in this exhibition, one contributed three very large
tondo paintings (all works 1999 — 2000 or 2000): concentric bands
of color à la Kenneth Noland but executed with a spray gun so that the circles look blurred, out of focu
of color à la Kenneth Noland but executed with a spray gun so that the circles look blurred, out
of focu
of focus.
The
tondo has been present in my work for a little while, so when I gave these a second look it was a case
of Pass The Parcel.
In Scirocco... there is a print
of one
of these leftover Wasabi hotpots that is really a vortex
of fork - scraping isolated in a sad little
tondo.
Micchelli writes: «The thickly painted, brightly buzzing circles, rectangles and trapezoids in Analogue Future — which includes conventionally rectilinear canvases as well as several
tondos — derive from the 8 - bit graphics
of primitive computer programs and video games... While the works in this show, at first glance, come off as paint - as - paint, the longer you look at them, the more their evocation
of memory and lost time deepens their impression, even if you are unaware
of their origins.
For the quilted
tondo Untitled (Farm House), Millet used a Japanese Art Deco — style piece
of fabric to engulf a simple house shape, resulting in a kind
of ukiyo - e dream world in which the house could provide shelter in a vortex.
KAWS, [not yet titled], 2013 Acrylic on canvas; 96 inch
tondo Courtesy
of Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong, Paris, New York Photo: Farzad Owrang
He often merges the codes
of street culture (stickers, graffiti) with the codes
of high traditional art (the round canvas: the
tondo) in works expressing a loss
of any fixed definition.
Edward Clark's abstract expressionist
tondo The Big Egg (1968) establishes the artist among the earliest American painters to experiment with oval forms (later explored by artists like Jasper Johns), while works by the 1970s black artist collective AfriCOBRA — who operated loosely as the visual arts arm
of the Black Arts Movement, and whose influence can be found in the work
of Kerry James Marshall and David Hammons — are given prominence.
In a show full
of passionately polemical paintings — Alice Neel's heroic portrait
of the union organiser Pat Whalen, fists bearing down on the newspaper headlines; Mussolini as a green - faced jack - in - a-box; Guston's horrifying Guernica
tondo — Wood's lyrical ruralism still holds its own.
Objects decorated with mussel shells (including a stunning
tondo titled Cercle des moules (Circle
of Mussels), 1966), eggs and coal — all
of which Broodthaers sourced from a local restaurant — became simple visual puns on Belgium's suffocating heritage (mussels and fries, for instance, is Belgium's national dish, while «Moule» is also French for «Mold»).
The circular canvas acts as a container for the circular pattern
of the fibrous imagery, which increases in complexity from the
tondo's center outward, growing into an almost absurdly intricate pattern
of interlacing lines before exhausting itself inches away from the canvas edge.
The NYOC Gallery is pleased to present IMMEASURABLE LIGHT, a solo exhibition
of Karen Fitzgerald's luminous
tondo paintings.
Mason's Yard In the ground - floor gallery at Mason's Yard, The Indifferent Owl, a
tondo painted in a disquieting mix
of browns, purples and blues, will overlook a group
of paintings
of flowers and plants that suggest innocence and newness, their mood a stark contrast to the owl's world - weary, unappeasable gaze.
Higgs, the director
of White Columns, asked twelve artists to paint a
tondo, then he tethered appropriate books to the paintings.
Over the years she had produced various works on the subject
of Jewish identity, such as the wonderfully sarcastic Jewish Star Painting (1973 - 74), a small
tondo with «Louise Edith Fishman» demurely inscribed in pink paint beneath the Star
of David.
Krasner's «Stop and Go» from 1949, a
tondo, is a tight web
of lines evoking hieroglyphics.