Sentences with phrase «painted vast canvases»

Mr. Twombly painted vast canvases marked by smears of paint, half - erased graffiti, random scratches and occasional lines of poetry that evoked a connection between the world of classical mythology and the vibrant street culture of modern life.

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Known to some as a supervillain and to others as one of the most influential politicians of all time, McKay has a vast canvas to paint with here.

Brodsky's style channels the heightened realism of 19th century landscape painters; whereas the historical paintings were created on enormous canvases that echoed the vast American landscape, Brodsky's contemporary take condenses the visual impact into a token - sized work that fits in the palm of a hand.

She is known for her vast and vivid improvised painted canvases, which in her early career were inspired by Jackson Pollock.

Perhaps it was the vast canvas expanse of «Rebus» in my peripheral vision that brought to mind Butler's use of fabric as an independent element, or perhaps it was something deeper; like Rauschenberg's Combines, there is something simultaneously serene and mad about these paintings.

Without figurative motifs to distract the viewer's attention, Richter's application of paint onto the vast canvas is a demonstration of reduction at its most convincing.

Each work is a vast picture made up of smaller paintings, which the artist cut out and glued to the canvas.

At the cavernous Castello di Borghese Vineyard gallery space — an artist's dream with tons of sunlight and vast new white expanses of wall for hanging colorful canvases — I found myself riding along on a wave of blues from painting to painting as I thoroughly enjoyed the sun - drenched work of Mattituck Impressionist Patricia Feiler.

The choice of scale is self - confident, as with the domestic size canvases by Varda Caivano that do not need to be monumental to make their powerful visual arguments, or the vast, unstretched linen that Jessica Warboys paints on the seashore.

The new American painting, by contrast, meant vast canvases by Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, Clyfford Still and others, with a gripping energy and directness, and an emotional impact that, in Rothko's case, reduced some viewers to tears («they are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them,» Rothko explained).

The most celebrated of this group, Joseph Mallard William Turner painted vast, energetic canvases of angry seas, his dynamic splatters of paint conjuring the cold bite of the sea spray.

Using a palette knife loaded with several colors, Sonia applied vast sweeps of paint across her canvases in sensuous, energetic full - body movements.

The art of Anselm Kiefer is thick with history — and thick with paint, which he heaps up on his vast canvases along with ash, sunflowers and words.

Color Field painting, which emerged in the United States in the 1950s, is characterized by pouring, staining, spraying or painting thinned paint onto raw canvas to create vast chromatic expanses.

French painter, Stéphane Joannes» large oil on canvas paintings depict solitary cargo ships surrounded by the vast sky and water.

Kenneth Noland, Following Sea, 1974 Acrylic on canvas, 98 x 98 inches February 29 — May 26, 2008 Color field painting, which emerged in the United States in the 1950s, is characterized by pouring, staining, or spraying thinned paint onto raw canvas, creating vast chromatic expanses.

This exhibition presented a vast array of Wu's output: cartoon drawings for newspapers, book cover designs, sketches and portrait paintings made during his five years of study in Paris; poetry, calligraphy, watercolour paintings and oils on canvas, mostly arranged chronologically and organized by media.

I have moved on since then, but seeing one of Richard Smith's big multiple shaped canvases at Tate Britain recently, I found I still liked it, and liked it more than Noland's Another Line, on display in the same room, along with a vast, vapid Olitski spray painting, more than 20 feet long, not nearly as good as the ones I've illustrated above.

Painted in 1991, the painting demonstrates one of the most well - known phrases from the artist's celebrated series of joke paintings rendered in silkscreen ink upon a vast, mulberry pink - hued canvas.

Sometimes she paints over vast tracts of the canvas; other times there's a pentimento or perhaps an image intended to be visible beneath the surface.

Through a unique process she has developed called «mono - transfer», Milhazes applies hand - painted decals directly to the canvas that are sourced from her vast vocabulary of shapes and motifs — among them arabesques, pinwheels and radiating targets.

He started working with very large canvases in the late 1960s, hanging vast pieces of painted cloth across walls and ceilings to emphasize the relationship between the work and its environment.

Turning away from the gesture - laden, textured surfaces that typified much of Abstract Expressionist painting, Gamma Kappa displays colors flowing effortlessly, breathing life literally into and across this vast canvas.

Alchemical colour effects generated with sprayed paint on vast canvases hint at sublime natural, elemental or celestial events.

A vast and vertiginous painting by Robert Mangold at Armand Bartos of New York offer the illusion that the wall is falling away — shaped canvas and elliptical calligraphy on a level that make it special in Mangold's oeuvre.

In order to create these semi-abstract paintings the artist applied vast swathes of household gloss paint to the canvas.

In two vast paintings on loose cloth and smaller works on stretched canvas, Grosse continues her use of stencils either to filter or completely block out areas of negative space.

By suspending a stretcherless, often vast length of painted canvas from the walls or ceiling of an exhibition space, Gilliam transformed both his medium and the contexts in which it was viewed.

Twombly made the large - scale work, Treatise on the Veil (Second Version) in the same year, as a vast canvas painting of nearly 33 feet (10 metres).