Not exact matches
Painted on rectangles of sky
blue with
thin hard edge black
lines describing simple yet complicated designs; a few of his sky
blue paintings had black numbers stenciled on the surface corresponding to his own arcane system of height and width.
One of the most interesting and witty
paintings in this series is a large (6 x 10») white canvas with
thin sky
blue lines painted to resemble a brick wall.
Its meager
painted elements consist of
thin, mechanically crisp
lines and bars of
blue enamel, mostly along the edges but also trisecting the surface horizontally.
Through all the photographically based
paintings Quaytman has
painted a
thin strip of
lines, a spine so to speak,
painted in red, green and
blue (RGB).
The exhibition was inspired by 1956 PH - 223, a stunning deep
blue painting bisected by a
thin vertical
line created by bare canvas.
In the 1970's, the decade of his death, Lewis's work seems to take on new vigor, especially in
paintings like the spare, Minimalist «No. 2» of 1973, an all - black abstraction randomly scored with
thin, vertical
lines of white, and «
Blue and Boogie» of 1974, a knockout of a painting in which a dynamic whir of bright blue patches — like a Coney Island Cyclone ride — animates an all - black fi
Blue and Boogie» of 1974, a knockout of a
painting in which a dynamic whir of bright
blue patches — like a Coney Island Cyclone ride — animates an all - black fi
blue patches — like a Coney Island Cyclone ride — animates an all - black field.
The 1990s through the present has witnessed the continued efflorescence in
painting, as demonstrated in this show by works such as Judith Godwin's
Blue, No. 11 (1997), a lyrical expression of mixed emotion, Jasmina Danowski's Tender Trap (2012), in which the artist conveys a sense of moving through an aquatic and sensuous world, Carol Hunt's Easter Morning (2011), featuring a calligraphy of
line and shape that conjures archetypal signs and symbols, Katherine Parker's Behind and Above (2011), a canvas built of
thin layers of
paint that the artist has scraped away to convey a metaphysical awareness of the passage of time, and Susan Vecsey's Napeague Bay, Montauk (2012), in which the subtle color stained into the canvas evokes the emotion of a place remembered and deeply felt.