Sentences with phrase «painted dots like»

Then you take a step closer, and the image gives way to texture — painted dots like beads that shape their figure's faces, fingers, Afros, breasts, or penis.

Not exact matches

I like it when the paint is thick enough for each dot to turn into a visible fingerprint with an interesting structure and when I can easily see how the flowers made by my younger child are smaller than the ones made by my oldest because of the different sizes of fingers.

You can paint almost any patterns you like on your toenails like polka dots, French tips, animal prin →

The only thing I didn't like was that the dots seemed to be painted on instead of part of the actual fabric.

After the gold polkadots were complete I place the gold glitter paint over the gold polka dots to give it some sort of sparkle or sheen like the original Kate Spade Keds have.

Like when it hurts to think about selling the house, she tells herself how that bad feeling is just one dot in the giant Seurat painting of our lives.»

The show featured paintings in which she started to develop two of her signature motifs: infinity nets (a series of small circles, linked like a net) and polka dots.

In other works, like Jennifer Bartlett's Swimming Pool (Early 1970s), the grid (silkscreened onto the ground of the steel plate) intrinsically spaces and allocates the site in which she paints her dots as a kind of means to an end.

But in relation to contemporaries like Roy Lichtenstein, Polke's Benday dots, painted by hand, were messy and inchoate.

Some paintings employ even larger dots interspersed with images, like a mixed - media work from 1971 in which he painted characters in milky, semitransparent white on strips of flowered fabrics.

Sort of like the drawing of a Catholic soul we had to study in grade school — all white but dotted with venial sins like measles on a Robert Wyman painting.

In these paintings the palette is earthy, the black layered on brown and ochre shades, but even in a work like Black Moves (1964), the dark tones are animated by contrast with a small triangle of red, and some delicate small dotting of yellow.

He is not alone either in assuming multiple guises — like Richard Prince with his stale jokes and the Marlboro man, Robert Gober with industrial sinks and pretend newspaper bundles, Jeff Koons with a ceramic poodle and an ad for rum, Josephine Pryde with a cute kid and otherwise identical auto bodies disfigured by splashes of paint, or Liz Deschenes with green screens lit from within and an unsteady pattern of white dots.

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.

In this new group, clusters of dots infiltrate the whole territory of the painting like color - coded information gone dysfunctional.

I always liked the idea of people filling in the gaps between one painting and another — trying to find connections or subconsciously forming relationships — joining up the dots.

A 1995 work, so cartoon - like that you almost expect a caption, is mostly a big, tilting expanse of bare canvas — a floor — extending toward a far - off green wall dotted with numerous tiny paintings.

Other than that, the paintings look like they were made by someone who really likes swooshes, dots, and stripes, but doesn't know what to do with them.

They were soon followed by her installations made from found objects covered with stuffed, sometimes dotted phalluses, to which she soon added mirrors, and by the well - known orgy - like Happenings (and their films) whose participants were painted with dots.

The artist transports the viewer to this holistic in - between - stage by reformulating the constituents of painting as similar quintessential dualities: flat surface versus deep space, precision versus ambiguity, material versus ethereal, the grid - like composition of brightly colored dots versus animated, formative fields of homochromatic hues.

The paintings in Sea Legs look like vibrant abstractions but are in fact made up of thousands of dots, methodically applied according to complex numerical systems.

From the psychedelically primordial My Forsaken Love, in which biomorphs traverse a black - fringed molten - pink ground, to the strata - like composition of Standing on the Riverbank of My Hometown I Shed Tears, a canvas filled with sedimentary layers of cell - like dots, eyes and extravagantly decorated lashes, the paintings generate new motifs and arrangements of forms while continuing a lifelong preoccupation with the mysteries of the physical and metaphysical, the tangible and ineffable - the space where seeing and feeling intersect.

HARMONY KORINE — Yes, these line paintings are based and looped, like a trance or an obsessive teenager doodling on the back of a notebook, trying to find some magic pattern, a stoner pattern, melted and finding forms, connecting dots.

Ofili began to garner attention in the mid-1990s with his intricately constructed works, combining bead - like dots of paint, informed in part by cave paintings in Zimbabwe, with collaged images from popular media, and elephant dung.

The cream - colored surface of the work has several very intriguing circular bas - reliefs as well as a boldly painted diagonal element in the center the top of which intersects with a row of gray dots that escalate slightly in size and parallel a large iron rod whose curved tone, like a cane handle, rises above the top of the four large panels.

Ruscha began his famous series of word paintings in the 1960s, depicting various views of the Hollywood sign and the logos of studios like 20th Century Fox, but also roadside views like the Standard Oil stations dotting L.A.'s freeways.

I really liked paintings with dots.

He has rightly been regarded as a consummately perceptual painter — the interaction of the dots covering his canvases makes the most out of a very limited palette — but what struck me about his oil paintings in particular was how tactile they felt, with the illusion of space seeming to change, like the surface of a mosaic, as you move from side to front to side.

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.

Breuning's 2011 Metro Pictures show «The Art Freaks,» which depicted nudes painted to look like artworks, included a polka - dotted nude, after Hirst.

Although his works may look as if they are made by a machine, Lichtenstein would begin by painting through a perforated metal screen to make the regular pattern of dots, like those used to form areas of colour in magazine pictures.

Sam Gilliam's takes a more immersive Rothkoesque approach in April 4, a tribute to Martin Luther King created a year after his assassination, staining and knotting the canvas to create wash - like veils of muted colour dotted with clots of crimson, which «may suggest bloodstains» the texts argue — though the painting doesn't hit quite the note of transcendence it aspires to.

MS. LARSEN: And I always went over to the County Museum and thought — you know, those paintings that have a lot of, like, dots and linear patterns and --

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».

Her early abstract pictures, their surfaces sprinkled with glitter and caked with punched - out, confetti - like paper dots, were some of the most beautiful paintings of the 1970s.

Like in Ward's work, these villages are made up of what the fishermen can find — old oil barrels dotting the shore and brightly painted, recycled plywood shacks.

Since then her works have influenced British painters like Thérèse Oulton and Rosa Lee, and Hirst's dot paintings.

He's great on wet paint, especially in his descriptions of Albert Oehlen's brushwork --» grids of dots, and passages of fluid, slashing brush marks «bundled» like kindling... veils, which are often made from dirty turps and some interesting, jewelescent earth tones, give the paintings the feeling of being seen from inside a sock.»

Works like the large series of 3D acrylic - and - Masonite paintings of trees shadowed by their own grids follow Georges Seurat and Roy Lichtenstein's investigation of the role of the dot in painting, and prefigure the binary codes of contemporary digital photography.

This room is like a missing link: the nailheads are dots, carefully arranged into grids on the paintings.

Those who don't have someone like Powell to connect the dots can still enjoy the paintings, however.

Painted segments seem almost applied with a printing block, dots or harlequin - like rhombus patterns seemingly stamped, and individual color fields that reveal no trace of a brushstroke and seem to be generated by a printing machine.

Rafferty has created a theatrical event in the upstairs and downstairs of the still - new Uffner galleries with floor - to - ceiling curtains dotted with pink - and - purple flies; blob - like paintings (of people, a wall, a noose) and inkjet prints layered on top of each other, flattened behind plexi to give the appearance of multi-dimensional depth; all adorned with the tiniest of hardware, like screws, that have been attached to the surface of her works.

In the 1990s the previous decade coalesced into the «village» paintings — small house - like mounds, on horizon lines, in landscapes dotted with pictographs.

Thomas Downing, like Anthony Caro, was a great explorer of forms and movement, and this untitled painting on canvas of repeat dot irregular patterns is historically a fascinating picture when you consider it was executed prior to 1960, over forty years before Yayoi Kusuma's overall dot paintings and Damien Hirst's recent massive spot paintings.

Using the fine point of a bamboo stick, Pwerle paints masses of minute, individual dots that float, cloud - like, on a colored ground, shifting and vibrating within an indeterminate spatial plane, to depict the Bush Plum Dreaming narrative.

Some of the paintings, I worried, resembled an over-iced child's birthday cake — the spatters of white, yellow, blue and green like hundreds and thousands and the congealed dots of thick oil paint like Smarties.»

Like Roy Lichtenstein, Polke hand - painted fields of dots, and he rendered them with blurs and smudges, evoking the skids and glitches in Warhol's paintings.

You can see this put to tremendous effect in a work like Spaceshit (1995) with its planetary shapes formed of tiny dots, each semi-transparent so that the painting acquires spacey depths.

The artworks explode with energy as his obsessively painted white dots rise over his photographic canvases like clouds of smoke.