A painter from Serbia, Milan Hrnjazovic is known for his oil
on canvas paintings often depicting female figures.
Mainly produced in his home studio in Brooklyn where he has lived since the mid-1960s, his acrylic
on canvas paintings often appear to vibrate and swirl with emotion, still full of that expressionistic vigor from the days of his youth.
Not exact matches
Mendocino's dramatic location is a natural magnet for artists, and you can
often see them, easels propped and
paint palettes out, capturing the scene
on their
canvases.
I
paint for the love of it and I
often impress myself with the results
on the
canvas.
Soutine's thickly
painted canvases, which
often harness the physical properties of his medium to depict carnage and meat, are currently
on view at the Jewish Museum in New York, in a survey aptly titled «Flesh.»
Williams works for the show were drawn
on a computer and printed
on canvas, then stretched, and
often painted some more.
Arguably — and
often labeled — the greatest painter of his generation, Luc Tuymans signals in every
canvas the necessary limits of the medium, even the coda to its drawn - out death: his reliance
on fleeting photographic and filmic imagery, his refusal to spend more than one day
on a
canvas, and perhaps most of all, his indifference to craft bring the Belgian artist into head -
on confrontation with
painting, and endow his subjects — from the untouchable (the Holocaust) to the pedestrian (flowers, pigeons)-- with an unmistakable air of violence inflicted.
Domenick's work also focuses
on mark - making of all kinds, from the line of a pen to the scratches in a linoleum countertop, a material Domenick
often uses as a
canvas in his object - like
paintings.
As the term says for itself, Action
Painting is a style used in painting — a style that emphasizes the process of making art, often through a variety of techniques that include dripping, dabbing, smearing, and even flinging paint on to the surface of the
Painting is a style used in
painting — a style that emphasizes the process of making art, often through a variety of techniques that include dripping, dabbing, smearing, and even flinging paint on to the surface of the
painting — a style that emphasizes the process of making art,
often through a variety of techniques that include dripping, dabbing, smearing, and even flinging
paint on to the surface of the
canvas.
Hoyland
often made
paintings from the inside, standing
on the
canvas and flinging
paint around, sometimes straight from the can, in the manner of Jackson Pollock, and here this practice is visible at its most emphatic.
Jamian Juliano - Villani creates
often - gigantic
paintings on canvas — she works with brush and airbrush to render scenes that are surreal hodgepodges, reminiscent of James Rosenquist or Peter Saul's bizarre compositions.
Between 1946 and 1950 he shuttled between Paris and Le Cannet
on the Côte d'Azur, and then settled in Paris for almost a decade,
painting often in monochrome like Jean Dubuffet, some of the
canvases worked edge to edge with figures suggestive of the then recently discovered drawings of the Lascaux cavemen.
Many of German - born Silke Otto - Knapp's
paintings, drawings, and prints are inspired by the choreography of ballet and modern dance; her compositions are
often populated by flat figures that appear to float
on the surface of her
canvases.
Each «Controlled Substance»
painting such as «Morphine Sulphate» — often painted on irregularly shaped canvases — corresponds to a «Controlled Substance Key Painting
painting such as «Morphine Sulphate» —
often painted on irregularly shaped
canvases — corresponds to a «Controlled Substance Key
PaintingPainting».
She expresses her compassion in playful compositions of acrylic
paint, mixed media and resin
on canvas, balancing organic shapes, while
often masterfully incorporating delicate ink drawings.
(He
often pours resin
on a
canvas and then
paints images over it, or douses fabrics with lacquer before sketching patterns
on top of them.)
«His
paintings are
often short bursts of intense optical energy that fizz
on the
canvas, visual zaps that do not appear to interrogate much of what has gone
on before in art history.»
Painted on canvas or wood supports these
paintings explore an illusionary space, their seductive
often highly tactile surface enhances the experience.
Her works are
often created through the manipulation of the
canvas: she pours
paint directly
on to the board, and, through movement, intuitively makes images.
Each «Controlled Substance»
painting («Opium»)-- often painted on irregularly shaped canvases — corresponds to a «Controlled Substance Key Painting
painting («Opium»)--
often painted on irregularly shaped
canvases — corresponds to a «Controlled Substance Key
PaintingPainting».
The problem persists in a lower key in other works of the period, including pictures made in 1953, while Diebenkorn was teaching in Illinois: the Urbana series, like the Albuquerque
paintings,
often gives the viewer the illusion of looking down at a distant landscape, as though from the harness of a parachute, rather than across at the matter
on the
canvas.
From her
paintings on canvas to her room - sized installations, Yayoi Kusama creates vision - encompassing experiences,
often through brightly colored and obsessively repeated motifs.
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.
A member of the so - called Mission School in San Francisco together with such artists as Barry McGee and Chris Johanson, Alicia McCarthy makes
paintings that blur the line between street art and gallery work, using found wood as
canvases and
often imprinting them with the same intricate rainbow motif that she graffitis
on her city's walls.
More
often, though, they appear indirectly at best, as in a tub of mist by Rafael Lozano - Hemmer with Max Estrella, folds in monochrome
paintings by Karin Schneider with Lévy Gorvy, or blood red splashed
on big
canvases by Hermann Nitsch with Marc Straus.
Bradford (b. 1961)-- a Los Angeles — based artist and MacArthur Foundation «genius» award recipient — works in a variety of media but is best known for his
often enormously scaled collages
on canvas, which are akin to abstract
paintings.
But it was Kazimir Malevich who today is
often viewed as the forefather of geometric abstraction, beginning with his seminal 1915
paintings of black shapes — a circle, a square —
on a white ground, and his legendary white - square -
on - white -
canvas 1919 monochrome.
His confederate, El Lissitzky,
on the other hand,
painted lively compositions with shapes that
often seem to dance
on the
canvas, using precise balances of shapes and colors to tell spatial stories — for instance, suggesting that a static shape is actually in the process of falling, or rising — or even convey political propaganda.
IKB's visual impact comes from its heavy reliance
on ultramarine, as well as Klein's
often thick and textured application of
paint to
canvas.
His
paintings are typically radically simplified abstract
canvases,
often based
on the architecture and proportions of particular spaces.
Mitchell worked for the most part
on large - scale
canvases and multiple panels, striving to evince a natural rhythm that emanated from the expansiveness of gesture and from uninhibited use of color; Chamberlain's emphasis
on discovered or improvised correlations between material and color rather than a prescribed idea of composition have
often prompted descriptions of his work as three - dimensional Abstract Expressionist
paintings.
Often rendered
on unusually shaped
canvases with
paint layered so thick it seems three - dimensional, Murray's decision to stick with
painting an a time when it had largely fallen out of favor with modern artists — along with her choice to ignore many of
painting's traditional boundaries and labels — helped her to stand out.
There followed a number of dark
paintings with irregular or mottled surfaces,
often with relief effects produced by placing pieces of fabric or newspaper
on the
canvas and then
painting over them.
A multiple installation —
often referred to as «white
paintings» (1991) and so far rarely shown — can be seen
on the main building's first floor: eleven white
canvases that are embedded into the wall, virtually becoming one with it.
Her thinly
painted canvases exploited a web of suggestive drawing,
often on a large scale, in works that absorbed influences from English watercolours and Cézanne to Jackson Pollock.
Stained Color Field Abstraction was pioneered by Helen Frankenthaler.She diluted her
paints and poured them onto
canvases often lying
on a floor or table.
Often integrating mixed media materials into her large - scale acrylic -
on -
canvas paintings, Parsons pushes the formal aspects of her practice just enough to let the luxuriant palette and seemingly, but not simply, whimsical content hold center stage, while proving that she has true skin in the game.
In Britain, where Tate Modern owns only one
canvas, it
often feels as if there are more biographies in print than
paintings on permanent display.
Dripping, smearing, slathering, and flinging lots of
paint on to the
canvas (
often an unprimed
canvas) is another hallmark of this style of art.
Elizabeth Magill has developed a novel technique for her oil
paintings,
often starting off with a photographic image
on the
canvas, which she proceeds to work
on, applying and scraping away layers of
paint, until she achieves the mood in the
painting which she is seeking.
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.
Drawing
on inspirations ranging from Buddhism and American modernist
painting to psychedelia and Amy Winehouse, Brooklyn - based painter Chris Martin (born 1954) «lets the
paintings make themselves,» with
often generously scaled
canvases characterized by flat yet textured planes of bright, saturated color, frequently incorporating found materials and highly personal paper ephemera.
The self - portraits are also based
on photographic images that have been screenprinted onto
canvas; in both groups of
paintings, the varying tones of black, gray, and brown enamel are
often overprinted several times, simultaneously accentuating and obliterating the contours of the source imagery.
Though Ofili's detractors
often state that he «splatters» [7] elephant dung
on his pictures, this is inaccurate: he sometimes applies it directly to the
canvas in the form of dried spherical lumps, and sometimes, in the same form, uses it as varnished foot - like supports
on which the
paintings stand.
Cordy Ryman
often paints stripes
on recycled wood, as if
canvas had fallen away to leave only the stretcher that once gave it shape.
Humidity plays havoc with oil
paints which sink faster into the
canvas, but he seems to have shrugged and let them go their way, appearing thinner and even patchy
on the surface of some
canvases,
often leaving the weave visible and occasional gaps between blocks of colour.
Her utterly gray -
on - gray abstract
paintings that are
often - times in mammoth scales stem from singular efforts in which she meticulously plans her gestures and uninterruptedly applies onto
canvas.
Working in oil
on canvas, ink
on paper, and mixed - media collage, Krasner produced works characterized by a sensuous painterly style, her large - scales collages
often formed from the artist's own cut - up
paintings and drawings.
Beginning with a rough sketch
on bare
canvas, he pinned segments of raw
canvas cut by a razor onto a supporting
canvas coated with a mixture of
paint and glue,
often shifting the collage sections to alter the formal relationships within the composition.
Working directly
on canvas with no preparatory drawing, Essenhigh's imagery is
often triggered by random associations to find the most «convenient» narrative, with entire
paintings emerging from the mere hint of a shape.