Following that series the artist began to move increasingly in the direction of painted relief sculpture, initially with the collage works of the Polish Village series, and then to early
painted reliefs made from sheets of honeycomb aluminum such as Talladega (1980) from the Indian Bird series — an orgy of writhing cut - out forms covered with pretty high - key colors and glitter.
Not exact matches
As a consequence, I stopped
painting on canvas and started to
make reliefs out of construction materials.
Beginning in 1961 with Untitled (DSS 25) he began producing three - dimensional wall mounted
reliefs and the first example was constructed from oil and sand
painted plywood with a concave upper and lower edge
made from galvanized iron.
Sylvester countered remarks by various critics that the artist's work was closer to sculpture than to
painting: «in spite of the heaped - up paint, these are painterly images, not sculptural ones, have to be read as paintings, not as polychrome reliefs, and make their point just because their physical structure is virtually that of sculpture but their psychological impact is that of painting» (Sylvester, «Young English Painting», The Listener, 12 Januar
painting: «in spite of the heaped - up
paint, these are painterly images, not sculptural ones, have to be read as
paintings, not as polychrome
reliefs, and
make their point just because their physical structure is virtually that of sculpture but their psychological impact is that of
painting» (Sylvester, «Young English Painting», The Listener, 12 Januar
painting» (Sylvester, «Young English
Painting», The Listener, 12 Januar
Painting», The Listener, 12 January 1956).
The display will include works that span his long and productive career, from the figurative
paintings of the 1940s to the Perspex square
reliefs he
made in his later years, which will be displayed across the ground floor of the gallery.
They included David Butler (1898 - 1997), who fashioned animals, angels and people from cut and
painted tin and other found items; the religious painter Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900 - 1980); Steve Ashby (1904 - 1980), who
made raw figurative assemblages out of scavenged materials; and Elijah Pierce (1892 - 1984), whose carved and
painted wood
reliefs depict biblical scenes and national figures like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr..
Inspired by both ancient hand carved
reliefs, as well as mass produced plastic products, these peculiar pieces are each unique and hand -
painted, but produced using mold
making process, 3D scanning and additive manufacturing techniques.
Linda Cross» Unearth, 1988, is a large
relief that appears to be an assemblage of metal trash, but is in fact hand -
made by the artist using paper maché, styrofoam, and
paint.
From the gestural abstraction
painting of Cosmic Slop «Black Orpheus» (in which black soap and wax are slathered in high
relief) to the arcane photographic processes used to
make lines of feet look like dental x-rays in Untitled, Manumission Papers, Johnson does it all.
He went through his black and white phase, and came out the other side in the late 1970s
making paintings and prints of utter clarity, but which reintroduced colour, built up
paint in low
relief and explored once more the illusion of three dimensions, suggesting volume and spatial depth in what could look a little like a late - century and cheerier abstract take on Giorgio de Chirico's bleak city centres in lovely, hard colours.
Miller is best known for a series of brown
relief paintings that he began to
make in the mid-1980s.
He
made his first
relief in 1954 and abandoned
painting for
relief -
making in 1956.
Sculpture has always offered
relief, in more ways than one, and Clement Greenberg
made a point of
painting as object.
Roland Hicks» recent works (OSB) involve
making slow, labour intensive
paintings, sculptures, drawings, collages and trompe - l'œil
reliefs that reconstruct or reimagine hastily
painted offcuts and assemblages
made from the cheap building material Oriented Strand Board.
Wheat's energetic «tapestries» —
made by pushing
paint through the back of mesh window screens — collide allusions to Egyptian
relief sculptures and ancient Greek mythology.
In his
paintings Moffett extends the traditional two - dimensional frame in a number of ways, including converting the ordinariness of the flat plane into highly textured
reliefs,
making paintings that are opened up and turned inside out, or presenting intricate illuminations through the use of video projections on the canvas.
In this later period, Judd also
made paintings that could be described as
reliefs, adding found objects that projected from Masonite surfaces.
Whitten's 1980s explorations of surface and
relief are in evidence with USA Oracle (1986), a monochrome
made of a single cast surface of silver acrylic
paint, creating a densely textured topography of screens, meshes, imprints, and gesture.
My
paintings are often in low
relief, maybe a bit like the bison at the Altamira cave, part protruding from the surface, part additive mark
making: 12, 500 BCE.
Marshall's layered, heavily textured works consist of painterly abstract expression and controlled mark
making, etching and
relief, whilst embarking on an amazing journey of self discovery through his unique processes of
painting.
The exhibition comprises a series of
reliefs and
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He
made Bedroom Breast, 2004, a
painted metal
relief, referring back to his earlier work, and also Man Ray at the Dance, a large canvas
painting, at more than eight by six feet, and eight Sunset Nudes including Sunset Nude with Frame, a
painted metal work.
Many of Sloan's circular
reliefs reminded me of the still life
paintings made by a trio of linked figures in Jazz Age France: Le Corbusier, Fernand Leger, and Leger's protégé and friend Gerald Murphy, who also lived in East Hampton.
With a self - imposed mandate to free
painting from the confines of two dimensions and release it into a three - dimensional realm, Mr. Stella changed gears in the early 1970s to produce
relief - like
painted constructions
made out of aluminum or wood.
His sculptures — geometric wall objects, façade - like
reliefs, objects and sculptures created from abstract stereometric bodies which take the form of cubes, angles, columns, pedestals, podiums, movable walls and shelving — are
made of cheap no - frills materials such as particle board, cardboard, linen, molton, Styrofoam, synthetic resin, emulsion
paint, fluorescent tubes and other everyday building materials.
Artist Thornton Dial, who used found objects, fabric, and
paint to
make astounding, intricate wall
reliefs and sculptures that harbor nuanced narratives at once grand and intimate, died yesterday, Monday, January 25, at his home in Emelle, Alabama.
They had
made Assyrian
reliefs, LS Lowry
paintings, Barbara Hepworth ceramics, English watercolours and post-impressionist sculptures.
He has
made paintings on traditional, rectangular canvases,
paintings on differently shaped canvases, murals, prints, three - dimensional
relief paintings and
paintings that many people would describe as sculptures.
Lee Krasner's 1951
painting «Number 3 (Untitled)» is a wonderfully refreshing sight, although it
made me wish Ms. Temkin had not limited her sculptural selection to five works by David Smith and one smoldering black - on - black
relief by Louise Nevelson.
In the early 1960s, he moved very quickly into
making three - dimensional work, so while the first room in the exhibition is given over to
paintings, the second shows his first wall
reliefs and sculpture.
The kaolin works are generally
made from clay covered canvases folded horizontally, or sometimes cut - out squares of canvas coated in the clay and adhered onto the canvas; he created just nine large - scale
relief paintings depicting folded cloth.
Conceived in collaboration with actor (and art collector) Ben Stiller and his eponymous philanthropic foundation to bolster
relief efforts in the earthquake - ravaged Caribbean country — the poorest in the Western Hemisphere — the sale brings together 26
paintings, drawings and sculptures, most of which were
made specifically for the auction and donated by 25 international artists, ranging from Neo Rauch and Karin Mamma Andersson to Glenn Ligon and Urs Fischer.
These new prints are
made using a combination of carborundum
relief and hand -
painting.
In works on paper
made with layers of
paint or gauze above ink - scratched, writing - like marks, or plaster
reliefs inscribed with letter - like forms, Afnan created contemporary artworks with the appearance of ancient artifacts.
It was with great
relief when I realized that I wanted to tell stories, and
make paintings that are realistic.
She then proceeds to fold, tear, tuck and bunch
painted canvases to
make abstract objects which hover somewhere between
painting, high
relief, and three - dimensional sculpture.
His large - scale
paintings, sculptures,
reliefs, and installation works
made from found objects embrace the diverse styles, genres, and ideas of 20th century art history including Abstract Expressionism, Color - Field
Painting, and Op - Art.
After a summer in Provincetown spent constructing «flags» from driftwood and other flotsam, Oldenburg returned to New York City, where he
made U.S.A. Flag, his first
painted plaster - soaked - canvas
relief.
Influenced initially by the still life
painting of his father William Nicholson (1872 - 1949), and by Cubism, he achieved his creative peak early on in life, with his famous series of «White
Reliefs» - low
relief sculpture in
painted wood,
made between 1934 and 1937, after which he and his second wife Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975) established the St Ives School in Cornwall.
There are four
reliefs made from curled and dangling copper - clad plastic that brought to mind the wall - mounted
painted sculptures of 78 - year - old Frank Stella, and a floor piece that evoked 75 - year - old Richard Serra's rolled lead works from the 1960s.
During the 1960s he began
making reliefs and panels, with punctured,
painted or collaged points, and experimented with photography.
Agathe Snow, always peripatetic in her materials, zeroes in on pegboard and
paints it different muted shades to
make a
relief of cutout flowers that is also decidedly nonflowery.
Wells recalled that moving to the Scilly Isles, where
Relief Construction was
made, in 1936 prompted his immersion in contemporary artistic ideas: «I was very isolated there», he wrote, «and collected and read everything I could about Abstract and Constructive movements as well as
painting and sculpture in general» (letter to Tate Gallery, 18 December 1973).
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In a 2006 series of wall
reliefs made of white sponge stretched over wood, Amado once again references Minimalism — in this case to the white
paintings of Robert Ryman — while presenting symbolically suggestive words such as «desire,» «beauty,» and «death» that appear like raised inscriptions on tombstones, which clouds their meanings in mystery and ultimately leaves interpretations ambiguous and open - ended.
Papier Paradisio includes subtle improvised works on paper, small
reliefs made in cardboard and metal, spray
paintings and Formica.
For this exhibition, KAWS has
made a Corian sculpture cast in the form of Warm Regards, one of his original characters that has appeared in
paintings, editioned figurines, and bas
relief tiles.
About this time begins
making painted constructions in shallow
relief on plexiglass, which he eventually destroys.
Jasper Johns, who has long created sculptural
paintings incorporating wax and collage elements,
made a dynamic series of cast
reliefs in the early 2010s, revisiting motifs from earlier in his career.
Moffett creates
paintings that extend the traditional two - dimensional frame,
making highly textured
relief works,
paintings that are opened inside out, and illuminations through the use of video projections.