Sentences with phrase «paint upon canvas»

Ruby's amorphous layering of spray paint upon canvas has its roots in street culture.

Not exact matches

Regardless of your mood, a vintage LBD is the perfect canvas upon which to paint your evening's perfect picture.

It is based upon Giuseppe Arcimboldo's Summer, a portrait composed of fruits and vegetables painted with oil on canvas.

He's a canvas to be painted upon.

Once I had settled into my accommodation - two rooms in the attic floor of a terraced house not far from the West End Park - I spent a moderately distracting week strolling around the exhibits: the Fine Art and Sculpture Rooms in the Eastern Palace; the thrilling assault to the senses, both aural and nasal, in the Dynamo Shed; the Queen's Jubilee gifts (dull but, presumably, for those that need it, terribly reassuring); a reproduction of the Bishop's Palace which, upon investigation with the tip of my umbrella, revealed itself to be made entirely of painted canvas; and - my favourite, illicit haunt - Howell's tobacco kiosk with its wondrous international selection of cigarettes: Piccadilly Puffs; Shantung Silks; Dinard Dainties; Tiffy Loos!

Joan assessed the crowd, lighting upon the most interesting: young men turning white T - shirts into art, pinching the material tight and rubber - banding each section until they looked like porcupines being dipped into huge steaming vats of colored dyes; the young woman with a bird's nest of purple hair sitting at a potter's wheel, slamming down hunks of clay, her hands moving nearly as fast as the wheel, cups, vases, plates, bowls, trays, appearing like magic; the elderly man in a worn blue linen suit, a jaunty straw boater on his head, a smeared palette tight in his hand, painting a mammoth canvas of people on a beach staring out at an ocean where a sailboat bobbed in the distance, though he himself was standing in a mowed field; the handsome young man at an old - fashioned school desk, a manual typewriter in front of him, a stack of paper to the side.

Now that you have a clean canvas upon which you can paint your financial future, becoming a good steward of your credit is a must.

The idea is clear — to present a relatively open ended canvas, framed by history, upon which we armchair generals might paint our personal tactical masterpieces.

These simple themes which were constantly revisited and revised throughout the artist's career supported, somewhat paradoxically, an extraordinary artistic rigour and tireless passion for probing the possibilities and limitations of painting — its ability to present the real and express materiality upon the two - dimensional planar surface of a canvas.

Building a tapestry of structure and dimension through a weaving of loose and tightly knit brush strokes, Casteel builds upon the canvas» plain surface an orchestra of color and texture, with the application of paint not unlike the caress of a familiar hand.

expands upon a dialogue with perception that has pervaded Irwin's practice for nearly half a century and continues references to the mid-century abstraction of the painted canvases of Josef Albers and Barnet Newman.

Influenced by Marxist theory and French existentialism, Rosenberg conceives of a painting as an «arena,» in which the artist acts upon, wrestles, or otherwise engages with the canvas, in what ultimately amounts to an expressive record of a struggle.

These playful fantasy realms are upon closer inspection macabre theaters of politics and war: watercolor paint bloodies the canvas, and sinister global machinations play out in abstracted landscapes populated by faceless figures and dominated by oil refineries and labyrinthine pipelines.

His early work passed though the styles of impressionism, Orphism, Dada, Surealism, and verbal and visual collagel his later art extended from composition that superimpose linear painted figures upon one another (and, sometimes, several of those on apinted ground), to painting based on pinup nudes and commercial illustrations and, finally, to coarse, heavily textured canvases that depict totems, masks and shields.

Richter applies layer upon layer of paint to the canvas with «planned spontaneity,» using spatulas, brushes, and squeegees; he removes the paint, and reapplies it until he considers the picture finished..

The somber dark palette of his Chapel paintings recalls Malevich's The Black Suprematic Rectangle, 1915 (better known as «The Black Square») where the canvas serves as a screen upon which the viewer projects his own thoughts and images.

Subjecting the canvas to a range of painted actions and erasures upon it, Humphries tests the limits of painting, always interested in synthesizing physical and psychological space onto the painted field.

In 1960, inspired by Pollock as much as by Matisse, Hantaï hit upon his technique of pliage - painting on crumpled canvases that, when stretched, resolved into celestial abstractions that collapsed distinctions between positive and negative space.

Another thing was my love for the tactility of oil paint: like many other painters, when I look at art I get very close to the painting in order to get a sense of how the paint was laid upon the canvas, trying to feel the brushes in the painter's hand.

Although seemingly effortless, upon a double - take the painting becomes complex; some of the original canvas being exposed and other parts layered so innumerably the paint protrudes from the cloth.

British artist Toby Ziegler's dreamlike pastel canvases reveal themselves upon closer inspection to be derived from Gainsborough paintings — the colors and composition have been adapted by a computer program and then transferred onto aluminum with paint.

There are no traditional canvases in Gomes's work: painting instead becomes sculpture, object, an act of mark making upon a surface, or an arrangement on a wall.

Eschewing tools, as if to reject any reliance on the flightiness of brushwork, he applies layer upon layer of somber - hued pigment directly with his hands, not so much to paint as to rub the color onto the canvas.

With highly textured surfaces, the result of layers upon layers of oil paint, Auerbach's oil on canvases are rather more obscure, even, you could say, undecipherable.

The centre of these paintings is, upon close looking, not canvas at all, but rather the wall itself — a normally invisible backdrop recast as a focal point.

Using a restricted palette of ultramarine and umber, Yun created his distinctive compositions by adding layer upon layer of paint onto raw canvas or linen, often applying the next coat before the last one had dried.

Upon returning to the United States in April 1953, he went back to work in his Fulton Street studio in New York, completing this canvas and several others in what is generally understood to be his second wave of Black paintings.3

It is in this manner, for example, that Jessica Warboys «Sea Paintings» came into existence — a performative act between her and the tides of the sea — in which she allows the waves of ocean to interact with the pigments upon a canvas.

Her vibrant canvases are stacked, painted, drawn upon, sliced and woven (think Olga de Amaral, but in polychrome).

Built up from layer upon layer of biro and emulsion paint plastered onto canvas, the drawings contribute a setting of intimate vulnerability.

Check: Dianna Molzan's piquant explorations of canvas, stretcher and paint improve upon the French Surface / Support group of the 1960s.

Wiley's large - scale canvases are a true delight to observe and analyze as his paintings are so visually stunning one can spend hours upon hours simply looking at the level of detail Kehinde is capable of achieving within his compositions.

Matthew Radford removes the effects of gravity in his painting process by working with his canvas flat upon the floor and employing improvised walkways across the surface of the larger pieces.

Using the gallery's main exhibition space as her canvas, the artist masked the floor with a large foam stencil, painting over it and the surrounding walls in sprayed - on, bright acrylic paints, before lifting the stencil to create large, white, disconcerting voids upon entering the space.

The artist mills his own oil paint to build layer upon layer on canvas with a palette knife.

Executed in oil on canvas from a digital image, the paintings incorporate layer upon layer of fine lines of colour to create architectural - like forms, suggestive of a dense, abstracted cityscapes.

But upon viewing your work i immediately ordered 10 tubes of acrylic paints and 6 canvas boards to try my hand at this style of painting.

His heavily impastoed paintings, often described as sculptures themselves, came from the pouring of paint from a can, with little planning and constant evolution in the medium upon the canvas.

In addition to the abstract paintings, another prominent series of works features Styrofoam canvases, imprinted with footprints as if upon snow, transforming pictorial space into traversable ground.

This exhibition of paintings and watercolours, split across the gallery's two venues (28 avenue Matignon and 6 rue du Pont de Lodi), presents a practice premised upon the tension between raw material — whether canvas, found object, or space — and the artist's respectful intervention into it.

In the 1970s she was known for her room - sized installations and later, influenced by the equally vanguard John Cage and Agnes Martin, she struck upon a method of poured painting, where she dripped paint onto paint, creating waterfall - like giant canvases which were stoic and imposing, suspended in time.

Described by Artforum as an «artist's artist,» Abts works in a way that reflects upon the act of painting itself, with each canvas materially inscribed by her meditative process.

Painting to Be Stepped On (1960/1961), for example, invited viewers to tread upon a piece of canvas placed directly on the floor.

Analyzing each composition, one can only wonder what Still was thinking when he created a splash of purple paint upon a predominately black canvas.

Placed obtrusively upon the canvases» streaky, tonal backgrounds, his flatly painted anthropomorphic forms like a smiling face or skull often read as visual jokes - bright and somewhat laughable.

Rather than using paint thickly and opaquely so that it sits upon the surface of the canvas, Frankenthaler thinned her oil paint with turpentine to the consistency of watercolor.

Yet upon further inspection, it is evident that their purposes run parallel; each piece — a stacked pyramid of crumpled rice paper, a pile of woven baskets, archival material and oiled canvases — seems to be the embodiment or reflection of what Zhu has maintained throughout his career, regardless if the media were everyday household items, objects of suburban life, or what the critic Li Tuo has deemed «thick paintings».

LeWitt's sculptures, meanwhile, drew upon the grid to form spare geometric abstractions that stand in three dimensions — like an Agnes Martin painting that leapt off the canvas.

In other words, the impressionists» insistence upon a direct application of pigment to canvas resulted in surfaces which declared themselves first of all as surfaces — and, consequently, in paintings which declared themselves first of all as paintings rather than as windows which looked out upon the natural world.

Encompassing eight canvases depicting ships at port, Kyriazatis builds up oil paint in textured layers, drawing upon gestural plein air sketches that he makes on his travels around European harbours.