Sentences with phrase «on enormous canvases»

One of his specialties was mountain landscapes painted on enormous canvases: for example, Rocky Mountains (1863, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York).

He painted on enormous canvases so that the edge of the canvas was not within his peripheral vision and so he was not confined by the edge of the rectangle.

Cy Twombly could not have been more different in his approach to art, completely abstract, and often on enormous canvases.

Brodsky's style channels the heightened realism of 19th century landscape painters; whereas the historical paintings were created on enormous canvases that echoed the vast American landscape, Brodsky's contemporary take condenses the visual impact into a token - sized work that fits in the palm of a hand.

Not exact matches

Made between 1961 and 1985, the eight enormous acrylic - on - canvas paintings by Gene Davis in this show - all composed of vertical bands and stripes - testify to the artist's devotion to color.

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.

In Lee Bontecou's mechanistic, protruding canvases or the enormous, graffiti - inspired fabric bundles of Shinique Smith, we witness the physical demands of sculpture — welding, carving, cutting, twisting, collaging, stitching, pouring, pulling, stuffing — none of it on a screen.

Harkening back to his early days as a multi-purpose experimenter, Schneider presents several large - scale prints on canvas, collages, and an enormous multi-panel abstraction printed on self - adhesive fabric.

Thankfully on the other walls, Chris Martin's enormous October, 2016, high - fived Julian Schnabel's smaller, pyramidal yellow - and - orange canvas Untitled, 2013, perhaps engaging in soul - advancing, psychic negotiations to promote tranquility, the way good canvases can.

My Light Series paintings from the 1980s, enormous canvases that appear to be rocks floating in space, found that light and energy on an artistic cosmic level.

His work speaks to the enormous confidence of an artist who held back nothing, leaving it all on the canvas.

His experimentations led to the development of his famous «drip» technique, in which he energetically drew or «dripped» complicated linear rhythms onto enormous canvases, which were often placed flat on the floor.

Several of Accardi's canvases and gouaches, filled with the flatly rendered colored signs that characterize her work, are included in the exhibition, as are several works painted on transparent plastic called «sicofoil» — a series that revolutionized painting in Italy and beyond and had enormous influence on several sculptors from the «arte povera» group, including Luciano Fabro and Mario Merz.

In 1959, he worked with Ralph Rumney and Robyn Denny on Place at the ICA, in which canvases were positioned on the floor to create a labyrinthine environment; he was included in the Situation group show in 1960 at the RBA Galleries, which celebrated the impact of American painting on the British; and he featured in the enormous Painting and Sculpture of a Decade 54 - 64 at the Tate in 1964.

Paintings on scrap wood, cardboard, and canvas hang on the walls or sit on the floor, while a spray - painted banner, reading «Do Your Part for the Resistance,» and an enormous black - and - white photograph dominate the upper portions of the space.