Sentences with phrase «often smaller canvases»

Ms. Hafif, who is 80, is much more associated in my mind with bright colors and often smaller canvases.

Not exact matches

This superlative show is huge in every sense: big themes, giant icons of mid century art, enormous canvases, and no small amount of ambition on the Royal Academy's part, tackling an often shied from movement — or «ism» — which was last explored in such a survey in the UK back in 1959.

Patrick is well known for his large, high key colour canvases in acrylic, often in series and in a vertical format, but he also works on a smaller scale on paper, continually experimenting with small groups of paintings, acrylics on paper, collage, studies for larger paintings or prints, groups of etchings, silkscreen prints and woodcuts.

Next to it are a series of small canvases called Women's Words, each emblazoned with often derogatory names given to women and parts of their bodies, from the affectionate Love to the Village Bicycle, from Bit of Crumpet to Dirty Old Slapper.

In these playful, environmental works, such as spinach and banana (2013), Estna arranges her paintings in various positions, tilting them against walls, hanging them, and placing them on their sides; she often extends patterns to fabrics heaped on the floor and small spheres placed on pedestals, or drills holes into canvases so that light shines through them.

It's Baruchello's paintings and drawings, however, that are most representative of his imagery: large canvases with tiny, concentrated drawings, populated by small characters and objects often mapped together according to an invisible internal logic.

«Thus, with their symmetry, tidy execution and minimal gesture the small works on paper often seem to be more quintessential Rothko than many of his canvases.

The artist often did small studies on paper in both watercolor and acrylic before making a much larger version of the painting on 8 or 9 foot canvas.

Her sitters often seem a little uncomfortable, their bodies appearing smushed or contorted to fit the relatively small format of Joffe's canvases.

Often paired in alternating duotones, hundreds of small triangles cover these canvases, creating in each a dynamic visual rhythm that shifts and pulsates.

Often blurring the lines between figurative and geometric abstraction, the canvases from this period are characterized by painterly brush strokes and expansive compositions, often broken into smaller geometric regions of color and patOften blurring the lines between figurative and geometric abstraction, the canvases from this period are characterized by painterly brush strokes and expansive compositions, often broken into smaller geometric regions of color and patoften broken into smaller geometric regions of color and pattern.

I hesitate to say «image» because these small paintings have so much materiality about them, the paint often over spilling the edges of the canvas.