Sentences with phrase «paintings leaning against»

He motions to the paintings leaning against a fence.

Todd Bienvenu's studio is filled with stacks: art books on the floor, paintings leaning against the wall.

TED: Jenny, your paintings all lean against the wall as well.

Instead of hanging on the walls, most of the large paintings lean against them, emphasizing the conjunction of painting and sculpture.

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«A nude Negress painted gold, having danced with a Negro twice her size, leaned her body against a post and masturbated..

Curved bathroom features vaulted ceiling adorned with large crystal chandelier illuminating his and her washstands topped with white marble paired with white beveled mirrors leaning against upper walls painted chocolate brown and lower walls tiled in white subway tiles accented with pencil rail situated across from freestanding bathtub placed in front of windows atop white and grey marble floor.

He brings outside old paintings leaned up against the wall; these are mildewed, and wisps of a spiderweb stretch across the corner of a frame.

This figurine represents the self - proclaimed ruler Pagan Min, leaning confidently against an old brick wall with a tiger graffiti painted on it.

A bolt of burlap leans against the wall, and drawings and paintings cover the walls, of figures removed in the distance, and faces pressed against the picture plane.

AT THE REAR OF RYAN LEE GALLERY in New York, a 1966 painting by Emma Amos casually sits on the floor leaning against the wall between works by other gallery artists.

In one photograph the mirror is oriented so the painted lines on a road continue in the reflection of the mirror and then again beyond it; in another, a mirror leans against a tree which borrows a reflected trunk to become whole.

Another lies intact on the floor, surrounding the base of two paintings that lean against a chair.

The «Open» series was born when Motherwell noticed the enticing «congress of shapes» created by a smaller rectangular painting leaning up against a larger canvas in his studio.

In keeping with the theme of the exhibit, works, such as the Aurel Schmidt piece here, (including painting, drawings, poems) were «unfinished» and displayed on the floor or leaning against walls.

Purposefully made so tall it can only lean against the wall, it evokes everything from Barnett Newman's «Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue» painting to Richard Serra's steel plates.

Frieze US editor James Trainor leaned against a wall for a moment, then, at the suggestion that the paint might still be wet, sprang forward.

In 1951, Bacon painted his first portrait of a famous person, British painter Lucian Freud, whom he depicted standing and leaning against a doorway.

It is a shame to leave so thrilling a painting as «Broken Towers» at foot level, leaning against the wall amid a tangle of lines.

Painted on aluminum, wood or plastic, his work has its origin in snapshot photographs taken of his environment both domestically and when travelling — a door that is slightly ajar, a glass of water left on a bathroom sink, a broom leaning against a wall.

Painted on aluminum, wood, or plastic, his practice has its origin in photographs taken of his immediate environment, both domestically and whilst traveling — a door that is slightly ajar, a glass of water left on a bathroom sink, a broom leaning against a wall.

In the strongest work in this show, what look like cut - up scraps of painted canvas are really thick swaths of acrylic paint, peeled off a flat surface and draped over bare wood stretcher bars leaning against the wall.

The paintings already show a gift for installation, each leaning against the wall while resting on two more turds.

Two additional clumps support each canvas as it leans against the wall like some icon or ex voto, reminding us that painting is a universal, not Western, art form.

Mintz writes that Piotrowski's works «approach the possibility of narrative, though the artist deftly pulls back just in time» Conefry, Mintz notes, investigates «painting as object, something constructed and assembled,» while in Cohen's paintings «organic shapes lean against geometrics to create a push - pull of color and form.»

He happened on the theme in the late 1960's, when he leaned a small painting, its back facing forward, against a larger canvas whose surface had already been painted.

Marc Glimcher, the proprietor of Pace, was leaning against the wall of his gallery's booth, which was painted light blue and had a series of small Kiki Smith sculptures of birds and wolves that looked like they were leaping through an azure sky.

And then, a little off to the side, almost unassumingly so, there was a glitzily colourful painting of a black Virgin Mary, leaning against a wall, and supported on little globs of elephant dung, by a young artist called Chris Ofili.

A 36 - year - old Denver woman, apparently drunk, leaned against an iconic Clyfford Still painting worth more than $ 30 million last week, punched it, slid down it and urinated on herself, according to a criminal case against Carmen Lucette Tisch.

Paintings by Celeste Dupuy - Spencer, 38, who produces politically - charged portraits, leaned against a wall, waiting to be hung near where Baer's works were installed.

Lean smaller paintings against the wall and on top of a wood bureau.

A lump of dried, varnished elephant dung forms one bared breast, and the painting is displayed leaning against the gallery wall, supported by two other lumps of elephant dung, decorated with coloured pins: the pins on the left are arranged to spell out «Virgin» and the one on the right «Mary».

In a cavernous gallery just past the museum's entrance, 11 of the artist's signature, painted, planks of wood lean against the walls.

The absence of a human figure tasks the objects in the paintings with suggesting a narrative arc, imbuing them with a sense of mysterious drama — a door that is slightly ajar, a glass of water left on a bathroom sink, a broom leaning against a wall are the only evidence of the presence of a person, perhaps having moments before walked through the picture frame, or lingering just out of sight.

In another series, Maljkovic, who began his career studying painting in Zagreb, presents his old paintings rolled and encased in plexiglas boxes that lay across trestles or lean against the wall.

In the upper gallery, several chipboard panels from 1987 are painted with industrial paint, leaning against each other and against the wall, indicating possibilities for adding to, or taking away from, an existing arrangement of panels.

The painting's composition appears abstract at first; it takes a second to register that the fingerprinted white column depicts the back of a canvas leaned against a wall.

Similarly, Bratsch's giant paintings on paper encased in steel and glass frames leaned against the walls outside the show's entrance look like grossly enlarged book end - papers adorned with crenellated turrets of iridescent paint and colorful aigrette crowns gone mad.

The 1980 painting depicts a nattily dressed black man (the collector) leaning against a fireplace with circles of smoke hanging in the air above him.

Where Carolyn's circle sags a little against the wall in a gesture that suggests rest, you support your small paintings on top of nails, which are tacked into a horizontally level graphite line, and lean them against the wall.

Using the logic of radical material transformation, lightweight panels lean flat against the wall, while others, warped by the application of water - based paint, stand independently in space.

There were some paintings by Alex Katz, his wife Yvonne Jacquette, and a few others by their friends hanging on the main wall, a cheaply framed, crooked, unmatted de Kooning drawing on the floor casually leaning against the wall.

The works could be described as either painting or sculpture, yet few hang on the wall in the traditional rectangular form of painting; the laser - cut aluminum panels are connected like puzzle pieces, or as sheets of metal leaning against the walls.

By letting them lean against the wall, which reveals the gap between the two planes, I attempt to show the hidden three - dimensional qualities of painting and its relationship to the wall that it always relies on.

I met David Rhodes (b. 1955, Manchester, UK) in a Greenwich Village loft where his black and white paintings, both large and small, leaned against walls and were propped on all bookshelves and tabletops.

Typically fields of color marked with faint charcoal lines suggesting a door or a window, the Open paintings were originally inspired by the sight of a small canvas leaning against a larger one.

Vital to the group is a large cross, painted in a brilliant red and leaning against a flat white background.

The exhibition will feature three oversized paintings — the artist's largest works created to - date — which will be exhibited on flat aluminum blocks on the floor and leaned against the gallery walls.

Upstairs, in Njideka Akunyili Crosby's painting I Still Face You (2015), a poised woman in a yellow dress leans against a credenza as she looks into the eyes of a man — her husband or fiancée, perhaps — in the company of their parents.

Made of newspaper, rolled up and glued, then painted black to give the dried, tube - shaped material some rigidity, these straight or curly pieces were also scattered around a column in the gallery, or placed upright, leaning against a window.

There are openings to other spaces, bathed in light or cloaked in darkness, but the spatial illusion in his paintings is fused to a sense that the entire picture surface is leaning up against the picture plane, pushing into our world rather than receding away from it.