Sentences with phrase «on an easel scale»
For some time, gestural abstraction has promised a sure route to academic drivel, especially on an easel scale.
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A more crowded show allows more work on an easel scale, too — two approaching pure abstraction.
The gallery ranges over much of Stanczak's career, but it sticks to works of his on an easel scale, down to the bits of color that infiltrate a dense canvas.
Not exact matches
Prior to 1950, monumentally sized art was generally reserved for mural paintings in the narrative tradition and abstraction was explored on an easel - sized scale.
A dozen works range from easel paintings to his usual large scale, as if he is trying them on for size.
Consequently, the relatively small, easel - scale paintings of the Southern Californians revealed a freshness in their coming to terms with reductive form that occurred on a much different level than the physical / material emphasis of Minimal art in New York.
A cross between Western geometric abstraction and the geometric ornamentation of Islamic art, it combines the visual impact of easel painting with the physical experience of design on an architectural scale.
Abstract painting was not new, but large — scale abstraction was the breakthrough of this group — artmaking was no longer confined to the canvas on an easel.
He moved on, at the end of the 50's, to flat, near - life - size cutouts of painted aluminum that stood upright like sculptures (one of his son, Vincent, holding a fish toward the viewer is in the Farnsworth show), and then to easel painting: single and group portraits of a scale and approach dramatically different from those of the miniaturized collages.
More often than not, my paintings take on the domestic scale of easel painting and I value the way the form seems to allow for a bit of searching and contemplative vision rather than over-confident public address.
McLaughlin's easel paintings, never more than 4 or 5 feet on a side, also dispense with the public scale of a mural, which New York School painters demanded.