Not exact matches
Joffe has described the absorbing, as well as the highly physical experience of the
work's making, the thickly applied
pastel accumulating with a luminous purity that is markedly different from the act of painting and the ways in which oil behaves
on canvas or board.
Prominent among them is Pearlstein's Roman Ruin (1961), an oil -
on -
canvas close - up of a ruin, painted in a
pastel palette that gives the
work a dream - like quality.
We framed a number of
pastel works on paper for this exhibition which hang alongside large - scale
works on canvas.
The show's more than fifty
works included important
canvases from private and public collections, but the most spectacular inclusions, in many ways, were the
works on paper, ranging from intimate pencil studies with little or no color to
pastel and crayon - enriched images, as complete as paintings; many of these had rarely — if ever — been exhibited before.
Though Ward has traditionally
worked on paper in a mixed media format of charcoal, oil
pastels and graphite, this show will also introduce collaged
works presented
on canvas.
The following is a gathering of all of the Degas
works in the Museum's collection, divided into three categories: paintings, which consist of
works on canvas or paper using oil,
pastel, essence (dilute oil paint) and gouache; prints and drawings, which consist of charcoal, chalk, etchings, lithographs and monotypes
on paper; and sculpture, defined as any
work made in three dimensions
Painters usually
work straight onto a white
canvas, but I thought, what if I put a light wash of colour
on the
canvas so the
canvas becomes like a piece of
pastel paper.
Working in several media, including oil and
pastel on paper, board, and
canvas, his paintings strive toward direct expression by focusing
on the act of painting itself.
A
work on canvas will be combined with photography and transferred to paper where it will then be
worked on in
pastel.
Other important
works featured in A Walk
on the Beach include Jim Dine's rendering of conch shells in oil, acrylic, charcoal, and
pastel on canvas and paper, Key West Picture (1981) and his bronze sculpture from 1983, The Shell and the Log, where the log becomes both part of the
work and the pedestal for a bronze conch shell.
The unique convergence of realism and non-representation in Kahn's compositions, which are formally underpinned by the principles of color field painting, is
on full view in «Wolf Kahn: Paintings and
Pastels,» an exhibition of the artist's recent
works on paper and
canvas at Washington, D.C.'s Addison / Ripley Fine Art.
Works will include never - before - exhibited early paintings and
pastels based
on imagined landscapes, portraits and interiors, as well as a notable two - sided
canvas demonstrative of Saul's emerging response to Pop Art.
The five Francis Bacon
works on display include Portrait of John Edwards 1988, Seated Figure circa 1984, Study of the Human Body 1987 (oil
on canvas), Study of the Human Body 1987 (oil and
pastel on canvas) and Two Owls circa 1957.
However, the layering of images in my recent paintings, the layering of past histories intertwined with personal histories, becomes my own mythology» - Rita Ackermann, December 1997 New
works by Rita Ackermann, ballpoint pen, acrylic and
pastel paintings
on canvas, will be
on display from January 8 — February 7, 1998
Talking about his
work, Richard said: «I always strive to create an atmosphere in whatever I produce, at the highest possible quality and using a knife, brush,
canvas and a very limited colour palette of oil paint or
pastels, usually alla prima, mixing only
on the
canvas.»
The dozen new
works presented are a combination of oil, charcoal, and
pastel on canvas and a combination of landscape and figures weaving throughout each other.
The oil -
on -
canvas triptyph Facing, Turning (Intro / About), Cleaving (Apart / Together), 1978 - 79, departs significantly from her austere Minimalist vocabulary, depicting
pastel penile forms and feminine curves against a
worked, netural ground.
Fieroza Doorsen uses a wide range of materials: charcoal, ink,
pastel, oil, acrylic, gouache, collage to name a few, producing
works on paper, oil
on canvases and wall based sculptures.
The show encompasses
works ranging from a small gouache
on paper and paintings
on canvas from the early 50's to oil
pastels over acrylic
on canvas from 1994.
Soft lines are produced through frottage, a technique for which the artist rubs
pastel on to an unstretched
canvas that has been placed over a tangle of cord or string, then often completes a
work by adding pigment to the surface.
Working exclusively in vivid, highly - pigmented chalk
pastels — either directly
on the walls or primed
canvases — Party invites us to rediscover this once popular but now often neglected medium.
At Jackson, the nonprofit intones, «more than 40 local artists
work in individual or shared artist studio space, creating
works on paper,
canvas and fabric, in oil, acrylic, pencil, and
pastel, as well as photography, sculpture, and ceramics.»
On view are works made of oil, oil stick, alkyd, acrylic, pastel, ink, and crayon on canvas, watercolor paper, and newsprin
On view are
works made of oil, oil stick, alkyd, acrylic,
pastel, ink, and crayon
on canvas, watercolor paper, and newsprin
on canvas, watercolor paper, and newsprint.
Ranging in scale from small, intimate
works on paper to large
canvases in muted colors with pops of
pastel hues, this body of
work focuses
on general scenes of leisure: the day - to - day of society life, debauched nights, and intimate exchanges between imagined players.
The exhibition is presented in two parts: A front gallery with two highly finished
works; a
pastel on paper, «For «Dream of Life» from 1988 and a shaped
canvas, «Dust Tracks» from 1993; and a second gallery filled with many smaller scaled
works that give us an intimate snapshot of her creative process.