Sentences with phrase «paint on a stretcher»

Formalists long spoke of art as object, especially in paint on a stretcher.

You can see the lines of the pencil, because I don't work with the painting on a stretcher, I put it against the wall to create a hard surface, and then I just paint from the lightest to the darkest colour.

After this purge, the remaining works — 60 paintings on stretchers, 150 loose canvases, two portfolios with approximately 90 pen drawings, and between 100 and 200 crayon drawings — were piled onto a pushcart and taken to a local flea market, where they were sold according to size and «prettiness» for a penny or two each.

Not exact matches

John Zurier mounts a painting on a canvas stretcher at his Oakland studio.

After all, a painting is made of paint, and Benton is one of those painters who seem to be trying to overcome that as though that were an unfortunate drawback, Sometimes avant garde people say things like that, like Donald Judd who's quoted as saying that the trouble with a painting is it has four corners and it's flat on the wall or something like that, or that it's mounted on stretchers or it hangs up.

I knew that Jackson Pollock painted that way and it was appealing to me because it was so much more immediate than working on stretchers.

Trockel has become best known for her machine - generated «knitted paintings» — knitted woollen material placed on a stretcher — in which she challenges traditional notions of painting, feminine roles in society and culture at large, as well as art making itself.

These artists have indulged in stretchers, and even their collage draws on painted fabric.

Frank Stella (b. 1936) Lettre sur les sourds et muets I signed and inscribed «F. Stella» 75» (on the stretcher) synthetic polymer paint on canvas 141 x 141 in.

Rather than assembling a group of artists who are concentrating on the demise of traditional painting supports — torn, shredded or punctured canvasses, exposed stretcher bars, paintings hung backwards, oddly shaped canvases, painting as sculpture, etc... this exhibition will focus on works that address time as a subject, or are time - sensitive.

I paint in oils on linen with aluminum stretchers too, and that stuff is not cheap.

A smaller painting embedded into the stretcher depicts a possum sucking on a rave pacifier.

At that point, Albers — Josef Albers — saw me struggling in my painting booth on improvised looms that were not looms; they were just stretchers — painting stretchers that I used to tie yarns into tension, and he said he would take me home and introduce me to his wife.

Simon Denny, Canvas Work Game of Life Cover, 2017, Royalpainting.com commissioned painting (oil on canvas), UV print on canvas, custom stretchers, 45 1/4 x 65 x 3/4 inches.

Stellas's canvases were on thick, three - inch stretchers and the painting therewith became an object.

Schori rings the changes on detaching painting from its stretcher, while still identifying it with its support.

The artists» work comprises mixed media paintings, collage, and pieced fabric on stretchers.

Composed of arched stretchers, joined to irregular polygonal shapes, an interior shape was defined in precisely painted on raw canvas.

Inspired by the current artworld appetite for process - based abstraction and the related trend of collectors buying such works to flip them quickly for a profit, Lund appropriated imagery from paintings by other emerging artists and installed a GPS tracking device on the stretcher bar of each painting so that he could track the whereabouts of each painting on his website (flip-city.net).

Gilliam was a critical figure within the colour field school and is recognised for his unique idea of draping a canvas, painting on it as it hung without a stretcher.

Lund will install a GPS tracking device on the stretcher bar of each painting so that he can track its movements and approximate whereabouts.

A woven canvas on a wooden stretcher, Slice II resembles a conventional abstract painting at first glance.

Along with others active at this time, these three artists questioned, for example, whether a painting had to be a flat, rectangular object mounted on a stretcher, affixed to a wall, and viewed from one vantage point; that paper was only a surface to be painted, printed, or drawn on, rather than a medium for creative manipulation in its own right; or that there was only one way for a work of art to be installed.

Polke painted the cartoonish outline of a jeep on polyester treated with resin to give it transparency (so the wood stretcher shows through).

On the back, there are stretcher bars that run along the outside of each painting and sometimes cross as supports in the middle.

In Untitled [black painting with portal form] the canvas does not wrap around its stretcher on all sides.

Canvas is wrapped around 2» stretcher and painted on sides.

Monochromatic and painted on canvas, Jennifer Boysen's most recent works are distinguished primarily by the originality of the structures that serve as their stretchers, objects that she has either found or made, and that present a certain variety in terms of shapes, dimensions, and materials — wood, copper, steel, aluminium.

Cordy Ryman often paints stripes on recycled wood, as if canvas had fallen away to leave only the stretcher that once gave it shape.

(on the stretcher) gloss household paint on canvas 83 7/8 x 92 1/8 in.

Unique woodcut printed in five colours on linen, attached to two painted hand - carved stretchers

The heavier, browner palette is found in Wilson's Hammer and Tongs (1972) with its meticulously worked drapery study, and the architectural complexity of the workbench in Stretcher Pliers (1972), which is a damn sight more complicated painting than it seems at first because it balances several planes from foreground to middle ground to a second stage of the middle ground on a tilting shelf surface.

Rutault stayed with painting, but followed his «de - finition / method,» using store - bought canvases on stretchers — circular, oval, and rectangular, and in various sizes — painted the same color as the wall, and optionally but traditionally arranged.

In Cain's large painting, Balls to the Wall (2012), circles are painted, cut out to reveal the stretcher bar lattice beneath, and suspended from the top of the painting with different colors on their reversible sides.

Although I'd painted on stretched canvas for many years before switching to panels (and had nearly always stretched my own), I had never heard of a panel stretcher before running across a brief description of it in The Painters Handbook.

Angela de la Cruz's work is founded in the language of minimalism but she then tears her paintings off their stretchers to create tragic anthropomorphic figures which lie crumpled on the floor and peel away from the walls.

Technically not paintings at all, his recent works are actually recycled Coogi sweaters mounted on stretchers and transformed into pictures.

Although seemingly straightforward in appearance, many of the works on view — for example, Julian Dashper's cut painting stretcher Untitled (2002), Vincent Como's Sumi ink cube 4.5 Cubic Inches (Volume of the Inside of My Head), and Victoria Munro's cast porcelain painting OR, THE WHALE — are not what they appear to be at first glance and require closer inspection by the viewer.

She explains that she almost always works on one painting at a time, undertaking and enjoying every part of the process, including assembling the stretchers and stretching the linen.

Made on 1» x 2» stretcher bars reinforced with plywood and covered in canvas, she approached these heavy, weighty structures as she would have a gestural painting.

All of my acrylic paintings are painted on a cotton or linen canvas that is secured to a wooden stretcher frame for support.

The kind of paint (and the way the paint ought to be treated, which is really the same thing, for a given painting) depends on the particular spatial or object quality of the canvas, which depends on the scale of the stretcher.

Compound Flat # 62 is composed of a rectangle and triangle fashioned from wooden sticks suggestive of stretcher bars that have been combined or superimposed; ridges and fields of red, gray and whitish epoxy clay transform this patched scaffolding into deconstructed painting; Manolo Valdes» heavily impastoed (and faceless) takes on Renaissance portraiture come to mind.

One of the relative constants amidst the variety of these paintings is the previously mentioned imprint of the grid of the stretcher and crossbars on the canvas.

Compound Flat 50, 52, 59, and 58 (subtitled Pink Dropout) are based on stacked double rectangles, suggesting open sash windows — or, again, stretcher bars — divested of their glass or canvas, with swaths of fabric (actually pigmented epoxy) inserted into the mechanisms, holding them in place, or together; the window idea is borrowed, of course, from traditional painting.

His allegiance to the stretched canvas was so unlike anything else shown in France at that time — an era dominated, in terms of avant - garde painting, by the Supports / Surfaces dogma of the loose canvas (la toile libre, literally the «free» canvas, freed from the stretcher)-- that he exerted a powerful fascination on younger painters even though they could barely figure out his work.

Accardi's groundbreaking exploration of the physicality of materials and the boundaries of space in her seminal sicofoil works — enamel painted on transparent plastic wrapped around stretcher bars — played a vital role in the Italian Post-War avant - garde.

Painting on linen or canvas stretched across bespoke curved wooden frames (which Gorchov calls saddle - stretchers), the concave and convex structures have often been described as a hybrid between painting and scPainting on linen or canvas stretched across bespoke curved wooden frames (which Gorchov calls saddle - stretchers), the concave and convex structures have often been described as a hybrid between painting and scpainting and sculpture.

In the late 1960s, he began making oil - on - linen paintings on distinctive saddle - like stretchers, at once concave and convex, featuring one or two biomorphic shapes against differently colored backgrounds.

It relies on a baffling, yet regularly repeated misreading of Greenberg as a materialist interested in the physical terms of painting — the stretcher, canvas, paint, etc..