4 Protzman commissioned an Etsy maker in France to create linen pillows with
painted yellow circles, similar to ones her sister had seen in a photo.
Not exact matches
Supplies: —
yellow and brown cardstock paper — cream colored cardstock paper (we used a manila folder)-- 3 / 4 - inch
circle punch — brown
paint — small googly eyes — brown yarn — markers — hole punch — scissors — glue
First, I filled in the chevron pattern with navy and
yellow craft
paint then I added more white craft
paint to the
circle.
One fiery
painting reduces the daubs to a
circle of red,
yellow, and orange, surrounded by still more orange.
«Metamorphosis» (2011), a large abstract
painting hung across from a conference table and chairs in the exhibition, centers on a golden
yellow hourglass shape pinched between a pair of pea - green ovals, all surrounded by radiating concentric
circles and shapes.
For 30 years before his death in 1995, John Stephan
painted nothing but discs: perfect
circles inscribed on square canvases in a variety of colors and intensities, from searing reds and
yellows to calm browns and grays.
Like three untitled
paintings from 1956 where large Xs renounce a
circle, a square, and a rectangle, «Work (
Yellow Cloth)» feels simultaneously like an impassioned renunciation of the past and the triumphant declaration of a free future.
The
paintings refer to patterns and colors found in nature:
yellow for light; blue to water; and the mixing of the two creates green, the color of vegetation;
circles are cycles of the moon and sun; triangles are trees and mountains.