The exhibition will present two sets of related images: some shot as a formal still life on a white ground and others shot in
motion on a black ground.
In an enormous visual blur created by great smears of white
paint on a black ground, dissolution has been stopped in its tracks.
So is a self - portrait by Jack Whitten, remarkable for being all but abstract: an explosion of mosaiclike squares of blue and white
color on a black ground — pure, atomized energy.
The largest of the pennants, which hung down from the second floor into the museum's lobby, was emblazoned with the name of a fictional town, «Griffin, KS.,» in big white
letters on a black ground.
Martin: Yes — I had a crisis of belief, and for several years began working only with white
lines on a black ground.
A black and white polka - dot camisole + a black pinstripe skirt or a floral
skirt on black ground + a cover - up.
The lively bedding features an allover eye - catching floral pattern in bold pink, red, yellow and white
hues on a black ground.
Six Images from Banner Multiples Calendar for 1969: After Various Artists: Jim Dine (American, b. 1935), Two Red
Boots on a Black Ground; Robert Indiana (American, b. 1928), Flag; Nicholas More...
The space is shallow, close to the surface, and, in the case of the five white paintings of the first show, achieved by innumerable small arcs superimposed
on a black ground which is muted with a final wash of white.»
So is the conceptual artist David Hammons, whose coruscating body prints — a black figure with various
props on a black ground — include the punningly titled Three Spades.
Depicting a lone figure executed with white
pigment on a black ground, «Coach» is a rare example of the artist's unique body print technique and is estimated to sell for $ 300,000 to $ 500,000.
It's a big change from the white
dot on black ground paintings that I last saw a few years ago.
That's where he painted «Plant I,» his first use of a white
form on a black ground, and produced his first lithographs, collages, reliefs and shaped - wood cutouts.
Rainbow
bands on a black ground multiplying from left to right, until at the right hand third the space is completely filled, and the space itself seems to bend and deepen towards that side.
In giant white block
letters on a black ground, it proclaims, «Blind Idealism is Reactionary Scary Deadly,» with the words reactionary and scary overlaid by red crosses.
Rabbits, a wolf, a cat, a deer and the dominating peacock with tail in full fan are described with white
lines on black ground — a 32 - foot long paper «curtain.»
Only one study, Untitled, Study for
Painting on Black Ground, replicates the composition and the palette of the painting itself, and even this is quite different because it was rendered on an underlying black background.