These minimal compositions may look familiar today, but it helps to recall that the dawn of the 20th century was still the time when Monet obsessively rendered his water lilies and Seurat fastidiously labored over the Grand Jatte one
paint dot at a time... This was a time of the industrial revolution, broad social and political changes that found their reflections in the changing pictorial and musical themes of the first decades of the 20th century.
Not exact matches
Instead of the standard orange pencils, Make and Tell shows how to make your child a set of multicolored confetti pencils for them to use
at school this year by
painting standard pencils with confetti
dots.
These pumpkins are hand
painted one
dot at a time and made from polyresin to last a lifetime!
Dress up plain galvanized buckets with spray
paint and polka
dots to give your kids the most stylish Easter egg «baskets»
at the hunt.
WOLFGANG JOOP grew up a little this season - reining in the multicoloured
dots to vaguely more sensible checks, but there was still plenty of colour: black and white vertical stripes were roughly
painted onto cotton coats and tights and then daubed with yellow and green and red squares
at random.
I decided to try something TOTALLY different than I usually do
at home... I wanted to give the «bold patterns» AND «neons» trend a try and so I
painted my nails with the Chills & Thrills color and then took the end of a bobby pin and put neon green polka
dots on top of the blue with the Vices Versa color!
Designed for the U.S. road structure, the system uses a monocular camera mounted on the upper portion of the windshield to identify
painted lanes, Botts»
Dots and Cats eye markers
at speeds between 45 mph and 90 mph.
Designed for the U.S. road structure, the system uses a monocular camera mounted on the upper portion of the windshield to identify
painted lanes, Botts»
Dots and Cat Eye markers
at speeds between 45 mph and 90 mph.
Not only is this free - spirited fest famous for its musical roster of international eargasms, it's also where you'll find giant floating structures illuminated by lanterns and candy - coloured sunsets, sand - in - your - toes dance floors
dotted with flower garlands and
painted faces, and even a sacred fire burning throughout the night... Well, this year the boho beach party is coming to Bali,
at no other than La Brisa!
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Digital screens, halftone
dot patterns, emoticons, and other typographic symbols comprise the imagery in Jacqueline Humphries's new series of large - scale
paintings on view
at Greene Naftali through June 20.
At 16 by 20 inches, the majority of Butler's new
paintings are small scaled and have a recurring motif of
dots and dashes.
«Polka
dots would cover my fingertips to the top of my head, expanding to the window and finally covering up the whole room,» says the artist, 84, whose latest solo show of new
paintings and installations, «I Who Have Arrived in Heaven,» is on view
at David Zwirner in New York through December 21.
Artist Laurie Nye's other - worldly
paintings filled with omnipotent female cyborgs and organic geometric shapes feature
at the current group show
at The
Dot Project in London.
A few weeks before, Gagosian had challenged one to see the «complete»
dot paintings of Damien Hirst (with complete very much in quotes), and anyone who checked in
at all eleven branches worldwide received a free work of art.
In his 1968 lecture
at MoMA, critic and scholar Leo Steinberg stated, «When Roy Lichtenstein in the early sixties
painted an Air Force officer kissing his girl goodbye, the actual subject matter was the mass - produced, comic - book image; benday
dots and stereotyped drawing ensured that the image was understood as a representation of printed matter.»
(Another
dot painting has landed
at the Armory Show, under modern.)
By hand -
painting the usually machine - generated
dots, and recreating comic book scenes, Roy Lichtenstein changed the way we look
at our world but didn't use that to cultivate his celebrity.
Featuring an alluring woman in uniform whose skin is colored with his signature hand -
painted Ben - day
dots, the piece was purchased on November 9, 2015, by an anonymous buyer
at Christie's New York for 95.4 million dollars.
The
painting, a series of vertical red and blue lines subtly graduated in width, went to a private American collector for # 2,561,250 ($ 5.1 million), almost double the record established
at Christie's London earlier that year by the artist's
dotted canvas Static 2, 1966, which brought # 1,476,500 ($ 2.9 million), far exceeding its # 900,000 ($ 1.8 million) high estimate.
When his work was shown
at Salon 94 a year ago, it won fulsome admiration from the New York Times, which compared their optically dynamic
dots and lines to Bridget Riley's
paintings, «except more so.»
[12] He imitated the
dotted effect of commercial newsprint by painstakingly
painting each
dot with the rubber
at the end of a pencil.
At Bloomberg, Martin Gayford writes that it's a bit like seeing a whole display made up of nothing but Damien Hirst's
dot paintings: instantly attractive and numbingly repetitive.
There was also increased recognition for significant artists whose importance might have been overshadowed previously, such as 84 - year - old Sam Gilliam, whose abstract «color field»
painting at New York's Mnuchin gallery sported a red
dot sticker — meaning it was sold — early on.
With the four
paintings on view
at Oko, visitors will enjoy an opportunity to connect the
dots across decades and locate Schnabel's indelible mark on the evolution of art since the late 1970s.
Three auction houses will offer 11 Hirst lots during November postwar and contemporary sales in New York, yet only one work will be included in an evening sale: a 2007
dot painting with a $ 400,000 - to - $ 600,000 estimate range
at Christie's.
Therefore, of course, Damien Hirst's
dots paintings and Alexander Calder's mobiles, ubiquitous
at the majority of fairs, were there too.
Yayoi Kusama's ultimate Instagram exhibit is back in New York City tomorrow
at David Zwirner — featuring two new infinity rooms, new flower sculptures, 66
paintings, and a polka -
dot room.
This is also evident in With All My Love For The Tulips, I Pray Forever (2011), a sculptural installation — shown for the first time in the United States — in which oversized flower - potted tulips in fiberglass - reinforced plastic are
painted with the same red polka
dots as the floor, ceiling, and walls, creating an all - enveloping viewing experience while
at the same time diminishing the appearance of depth.
Her work on show
at Victoria Miro in London pleasingly shows a richer body of work we rarely see, with bright, almost compulsively created
paintings, which is probably her real interest, along with obsessively putting
dots on everything.
His
paintings of small elliptical brightly colored
dots arranged on a ground of intense colors done in the «60s established his reputation and led to his first solo show
at the Green Gallery run by Richard Bellamy in 1962.
Among the works that did well were Lot 16, a charming small sculpture, one of three examples down in 1945 - 6, by David Smith, shown above, that sold for $ 220,000 (not including the buyer's premium) and had had a high estimate of $ 150,000; Lot 5, «Atantolone,» a gloss household
paint on canvas of colored
dots on a white field that sold for $ 170,000 (not including the buyer's premium), well over its high estimate of $ 120,000; Lot 14, a large 1943
painted wood and wire sculpture, «Constellation,» by Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) that sold for $ 1,982,500 (including the buyer's premium), more than double its high estimate, and Lot 24, a larger Calder sculpture, «Trepied,» that sold near its low estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 20, a large and very interesting and abstract but not very colorful 1953 Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992), «Two Figures
at a Window,» that sold above its $ 1.2 million high estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 27, «Tour III» by Brice Marden (b. 1938) that sold within its estimates for $ 1,487,500 (including the buyer's premium), tying the artist's record; Lot 41, «Grillo,» by Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) that sold for $ 1,102,500 (including the buyer's premium), also within its pre-sale estimates; and Lot 31, «Vierwaldstätte See,» a large black and white 1969 landscape by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) that sold for $ 1,047,500 near its low estimate of $ 1 million.
Better Abstract Expressionism is
at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery booth, which showcases the stormy
paintings of Norman Lewis, and in the Manny Silverman Gallery, where you'll find a jazzy composition of
dots and crosses by Bradley Walker Tomlin.
Cheyney Thompson, «Birdwings and Chambered Shells»
at Andrew Kreps Gallery Cheyney Thompson's sixth solo
painting show
at this gallery — with its systemized colored
dots and dashes arranged in patterns that are just beyond the grasp of cognition but scintillate the eye, the mind, and mingle with processes that feel primary and ever - changing — made me want to marry one of these
paintings.
The surfaces are hard, flint - like, with the array of colored
dots creating a palpable sense of space — not the shallow Cubist space of Abstract Expressionism or the aerial space that defines Color Field
painting — but a gravelly surface riddled with innumerable pits and ridges that's
at once dazzling and forbidding.
Wade is working in what by now is a pretty venerable tradition, against the conventional idea of
painting» (A. Temkin quoted in, R. Smith, «
Dots, Stripes, Scans: Wade Guyton
at the Whitney Museum of American Art.»
Her grid
paintings might have a decided visual beat, but they never have the syncopated feel that Gonzalez, even
at his most systematic, gets with his eye - dropper approach to applying
dots of color.
He began teaching
at Rutgers University in 1960, and by 1961, he had created his first
paintings of cartoon and comic strip icons with his trademark use of Benday
dots.
With these signature
dots, the New York — based artist flouts the stringent orthodoxies of vanguard
painting that dominated art schools when she was a student
at Yale University in the late 1960s, opting instead for an unapologetically unconventional mode that also includes glam sprays of glitter, exuberant color, and labyrinthine passages of stitching.
The works, which often show a density of cut and
painted circles like confetti, refer to Pindell's childhood experience of segregation: in the 1950s she noticed her glass
at a root beer stand was
painted with a red
dot to indicate «for coloureds only».
In Bellicose Binary, pictured here,
at lease one layer is intricately
painted with a skin of minute
dots that bring to mind Ben - Day patterns or Matrix-esque waterfall s of binary code.
Picture precise abstractions on found paper,
paintings on rocks and dry leaves, or every key on a vintage typewriter hammering away
at a single character, producing an intense black
dot.
Opening: «Jonathan Horowitz: Occupy Greenwich»
at the Brant Foundation Art study Center Though he scored a big hit with his project of paying 700 people $ 20 each to
paint black
dots on white canvases
at last year's Frieze New York, Jonathan Horowitz is best known for his post-Pop art appropriations, consumerism critiques and politically engaged installations and videos.
I worked other signs of spring into this
painting that I noticed during my residency
at Wave Hill, such as the purple glory - of - the - snow flowers and hungry robins
dotting the lawns.
Executed on unprimed canvas and attached to rollers, it differs from conventional
painting by exploring the question of time: the near - invisible tiny
dots made by the gun hover on the verge of existence, suggesting «a coming into being» when they accumulate with others; and by rolling the canvas up and down, Latham was able to make
painting a temporal exercise in a process analogous to memory, aimed
at exemplifying the experience of past, present and future.
This was followed by the abstract red - ochre
dots and hand stencils discovered among the El Castillo Cave
paintings, dated to 39,000 BCE, the Neanderthal engraving
at Gorham's Cave, Gibraltar, and the club - shaped claviform image among the Altamira Cave
paintings (c. 34,000 BCE).
At the same time, the artist's frame is joyously decorated with all over yellow polka
dots imbuing the entire object with a sense of levity and turning an otherwise two - dimensional
painting into a near - three - dimensional tableau.
At the time she described these ground - breaking
paintings in personal, psychological terms as «white nets enveloping the black
dots of silent death against a pitch - dark background of nothingness».
A show of his early acrylic
paintings and later photo grids
at Lisson connects the
dots with elegance and an invigorating hit of color.
Charles starts his
paintings with anything
at all, simple
painted shapes of animals and other images, or collaged materials of all sorts and big fat spills of
paint, which liver when dry, providing a complex, wrinkled terrain that he then covers with tiny lines and
dots of sign - painter's enamel, squeezed from little bottles.
Conversely, Motonaga's work feels sweet and idealistic, as in his delightful early oil
painting of a bumpy mountain topped with lyrical little
dots or a 1959
painting called Kiss, of tall, blue and red dynamic brushstrokes that almost touch
at the top.