Sentences with phrase «paintings of a certain size»

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A member of the Colour Underground will ask you to paint structures in a certain colour against the clock, and that's about the size of it.

I should also note that he was the first of the New York School to make a mural - size painting (it measures 7.5 × 10 feet), and that his personal style owes nothing to the athletic gesture that is often identified with certain works by Pollock, de Kooning and Kline, or the subtle applications of the hard - edge geometry of Reinhardt, or the fields of suffused and unbroken color in Rothko and Newman.

When you make paintings that size, it takes a certain amount of ambition.

In the post-war period New York had produced abstract painting of a certain scale and ambition, and this context, along with the size of Bowling's New York studio, allowed him to work on the larger, often monumental scale works on view at IMMA.

It was also the exhibition that confirmed Richter's status as one of the leading artists in the world, and was described by Storr in his introduction as «long overdue» in the United States.2 In 2003 Richter embarked on a small but substantially sized series of paintings entitled Silicate [CR: 885/1 -4] inspired by an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from 12 March 2003 about the shimmering qualities of certain insects» bodies.3 The resulting four large paintings are perhaps the most overtly biological of the abstract works in Richter's oeuvre, suggestive of cell formations and genetic sequences seen under the microscope.

«Abstract artists like Reinhardt were paid to produce a number of paintings each month of a certain size, which they would have done during their normal studio practice,» Corris said.

But at some point, in the interest of deductive logic, I wanted a correlation between the mark and the substrate of the canvas, so I thought I would make paintings that used an instrument of a certain size to make paintings the same size.

Small paintings have to have a certain amount of power to them or they're useless, whereas a bigger work can acquire a certain drama by virtue of its size or the abundance of certain effects.