By the early 1960s Smith has developed his distinctive «Correspondence» series, which typically consist of two vibrantly - coloured
painted shapes defined by a precise but often irregular contour.
Not exact matches
But I'd be a pretty big hypocrite if we continued to
paint the picture of a Scary Mommy and not acknowledge the way this role has
shaped — and even
defined — the way we view Hillary Clinton.
Stories We Tell explores the elusive nature of truth and memory, but at its core is a deeply personal film about how our narratives
shape and
define us as individuals and families, all interconnecting to
paint a profound, funny and poignant picture of the larger human story.
I've added more tonal value in the
paint this time, so therefore you'll notice somewhat less pen work, as less is needed to emphasise darker values or
define one
shape against another.
In «Tempest» (1979) we see the balance of the sharp - edged
paintings with poppy, bulbous, colorful
shapes that would come to
define her art making in the «80s.
He
defines systems in his work as «a way of communicating an intelligible idea in terms of
shapes colours and forms, or an organisation principle that I predetermine and allow to run to see what the outcomes will be...» In his
painting here, Triangles within a Dodecagon, he takes the regular twelve sided
shape as its starting place and bases an equilateral triangle between two of the vertices, or along one of the sides.
Reinhardt's early
paintings of 1938 to 1940 consist of closed
shapes — either organic or geometric — of saturated and contrasting hues which, even though flattened, exist on a clearly
defined ground.
The
paintings of Monique van Genderen are something to move into: spaces
defined by
shape, color, depth, and motion.
Early in his career, his work was included in a number of significant exhibitions that
defined the sphere of postwar art, including Sixteen Americans (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959), Geometric Abstraction (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1962), The
Shaped Canvas (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1964 - 65), Systemic
Painting (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1966), Documenta 4 (1968), and Structure of Color (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1971).
He seems to have let
painting and drawing develop simultaneously, and each
defines and
shapes the other.
Stella created icons, and his
shapes define the
painted grid.
Metz, a Brooklyn - based contemporary artist, echoes and reinvents the practice established by Louis, which is
defined by saturated
paint and amorphous
shapes.
Stella's work was included in several important exhibitions that
defined 1960s art [citation needed], among them the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's The
Shaped Canvas (1965) and Systemic
Painting (1966).
Unexpected Portrait (2016) is a large - scale acrylic - on - canvas
painting where a long tube -
shaped orange line with dark edges glides across the work
defining a cartoon - like head...
He had been working all of his life in a style he evolved as a young man which at the same time was changing the face of the art world: Abstract Expressionism (characterized briefly as a form of
painting which emphasized gesture in an effort to
define the flatness and realness of color and
shape as a more integrated realization of the
painted space).
Composed of arched stretchers, joined to irregular polygonal
shapes, an interior
shape was
defined in precisely
painted on raw canvas.
Early in his career, his work was included in a number of significant exhibitions that
defined the art in the postwar era, including Sixteen Americans (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959), Geometric Abstraction (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1962) The
Shaped Canvas (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1964 - 65), Systemic
Painting (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1966), Documenta 4 (1968), and Structure of Color (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1971).
About eight years ago Keltie Ferris burst onto the New York
painting scene like a bat out of hell, that is, if you
define hell as the Yale M.F.A.
painting program; back then, her large Day - Glo - colored canvases were perfect crosses between hazy 1970s Color Field
painting, pixilated digital space breaking up and reforming in odd -
shaped plates, and painterly abstraction at the same time totally avoiding any derivative overlap with artists like Kelly Walker or Gerhard Richter.
The heart
shape provides a simple structure that
defines the composition while allowing the freedom to fill the
painting surface in a multitude of different ways and to try new creative approaches, just as Jim Dine has done.
The compositions in her current
paintings continue to reference the layering and puzzling together of
shapes that
defined her collage practice, adding a new attention to materiality.
Early in his career, his work was included in a number of significant exhibitions that
defined the art of the postwar era, including Sixteen Americans, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959; Geometric Abstraction, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1962; The
Shaped Canvas, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1964 — 65; Systemic
Painting, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1966; Documenta 4, Kassel, 1968; and Structure of Color, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1971.
A.K. - People are
defined by their movements, they're not
defined by their
shape, place - it changes all the time, so if you want to
paint people you have to somehow incorporate the movement into your
paintings, otherwise they look like mannequins.
The lines that
define the wood forms blend impeccably with the lines of the
paintings, as the two work together to create seamless and internally consistent planes and
shapes.
His style can be
defined as abstract
painting in which there is no subject, only
shapes and colors.
Throughout the 1960s and 70s, his work was included in a number of significant exhibitions that proved to
define the art of the time, including Geometric Abstraction (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1962), Toward a New Abstraction (The Jewish Museum, New York 1963), The
Shaped Canvas (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1964 - 65), Systemic
Painting (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1966), XXXII Venice Biennale (1966), Dokumenta 4 (1968), New York
Painting and Sculpture 1940 - 70 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1970), Structure of Color (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1971).
Bringing together five of Bannard's seminal
paintings from 1959 - 1962, the exhibition surveys the early portion of his career
defined by single - image
paintings with hard - edged geometric
shapes and complex explorations of color and surface.
«Splotch» connotes a
shape created haphazardly or spontaneously, and it is
defined as «a daub, blot, or smear of something, typically a liquid» [1] as well as «a large spot or mark of dirt,
paint.»
Stella's work was included in several important exhibitions that
defined 1960s art, among them the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's The
Shaped Canvas (1964 — 65) and Systemic
Painting (1966).
However, in his drawings, Moon deployed loosely
defined forms with lines that are softened by the use of pastels, making them distinct from the more strictly geometric
shapes and sharp edges that characterise his
paintings.
A lot of Olitski's early, really atmospheric, disembodied color
paintings had a wedge at the edge that would
define the
shape and size of the stretcher bar and its supports so there's no lying about space or anything.
As art historian Martica Sawin noted of Pace's art of this time, «The brush dragged across rough underpainting, the strategic drip, the brusque cancellation of any suggestion of latent image or
defined shape, the look of struggle built into the layers of
paint, the breaking apart of anything that might hint at order — these are all hallmarks of the work of the younger Abstract Expressionists.»
For Egan the results clearly identify a masterful handling of the
paint that fuses the motion and drive of lyrical abstraction with overlaid and still forms and
shapes of
defined instances of
paint that bring to mind Hans Hofmann, or the mosaic
paintings of Jean Paul Riopelle.
With the decisiveness of a marksman, she trowels oil
paint to existence,
defining forms that are at times stubby vertical trunks or limber acrobatic
shapes, but always exuberant impasto.
The most significant of the often loosely
defined movements of early contemporary art included pop art, characterized by commonplace imagery placed in new aesthetic contexts, as in the work of such figures as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein; the optical shimmerings of the international op art movement in the
paintings of Bridget Riley, Richard Anusziewicz, and others; the cool abstract images of color - field
painting in the work of artists such as Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella (with his
shaped - canvas innovations); the lofty intellectual intentions and stark abstraction of conceptual art by Sol LeWitt and others; the hard - edged hyperreality of photorealism in works by Richard Estes and others; the spontaneity and multimedia components of happenings; and the monumentality and environmental consciousness of land art by artists such as Robert Smithson.
Sharply
defined and repeated geometric
shapes were characteristic of his earliest
painting, that were described by Goossen as depicting «yellowish pink and green dawns, blue noons, and red - orange sunsets that swiftly slide from purple to black», hypothesizing that Ohlson's experience growing up and working long days on the family's farm gave him a unique passion for color.
Reducing her formal vocabulary to its essential elements, Herrera started creating
paintings in which boldly coloured, sharply
defined geometric
shapes predominated, and she exhibited this new work through the salon in 1949 — 52.
Her hard - edged, three - dimensional pieces are
painted in uniform colors with such precision, and do not follow
defined dimensions and
shapes — only a unique style reminiscing of Mondrian's geometrical studies.
Clark's early
paintings that were influenced by Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich reveal her interest in the
defining qualities of geometry's
shapes and delineated spaces.
Together with his Aluminium (1960) and Copper
Paintings (1960 - 1) and his
shaped canvases of the early 1960s, the Black
Paintings remain Stella's
defining masterpieces.
Looking at
painting always involves perception and interpretation, but Brierley's convoluted pictures seem
defined by their capacity to trigger pareidolia, a psychological phenomenon whereby a viewer recognises
shapes in abstract patterns.
Dever added the cross as a
painting shape where he can maintain a
defined outward trajectory with
paint that allows him freedom to explore the color continuum, he said.
June Harwood (1933 — 2015) although not part of the first exhibition of work considered to be hard edge, Many of her early
paintings consisted of
shapes that were more or less rectangular, often in silver, gray and black,
defined by crisp lines and edges.
His work focuses on how history, memory, and place
shape and
define communities, most recently in ambitious video installations that reference Baroque and Flemish
painting.
His style was highly original; his landscape
painting employs clearly
defined areas of colour structured by abstract patterns and
shapes.
A large boxed -
shaped room
painted pink on the outside and mint green on the interior, Pope.L's «Claim (Whitney Version)» is
defined by a precise grid of more than 2,700 slices of bologna lining the walls inside and out.
Her work is also textural,
defined by commanding
shapes and unconventional combinations of media — oil
paint with acrylic, pencil, or dirt, for example.
These variables can be used to give
shapes a certain intention, direction, energy or personality, and I delight in the conflicts, contrasts and surprises that arise from the many parts of the
painting, as if each
shape strove to
define itself in relationship with the the other parts of the
painting.
Focusing on the
shape and confines of the edge of the paper, he tapes off the same area on each work,
defining the drawings with the same underlying framework — a similar affect of the previous figurative substructure within the
paintings.
Subject, lines,
shapes, and shades
define my
painting.
He began to draw and
paint fragments — shadows on an open page, a curtain drawn back from a window — reducing the physical world to a few large
shapes defined by strong color.