Sentences with phrase «pattern against his canvas»

Cutting out the edges of dollar bills and placing them in overlaid pattern against his canvas, while affixing an empty till at its center, the artist is commenting on the work's use - value in society.

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Unlike her early paintings, this small group of works shows West's increasing experiments with more varied compositional patterns and the drama of forceful brushstrokes, usually black against white unprimed canvas.

In these playful, environmental works, such as spinach and banana (2013), Estna arranges her paintings in various positions, tilting them against walls, hanging them, and placing them on their sides; she often extends patterns to fabrics heaped on the floor and small spheres placed on pedestals, or drills holes into canvases so that light shines through them.

The paintings at first appear to be simple, pastel depictions of women, flowers, and birds against patterned backdrops — yet each distinct section of the canvas actually derives from a separate woodcut that the artists used as a stamp.

Later works include exuberantly satirical works of the 1960s, many featuring the vaguely autobiographical figure described by critic and artist Anne Doran as a «nattily dressed and deeply ridiculous Everyman in mad pursuit of liberty, poetry, and sex»; the pornography - inspired «X-Rated Paintings» of the early 1970s; the «Noun» paintings of the same period (each depicting a single everyday object against a bright, patterned background); the schematic, figurative canvases made in homage to Copley's Surrealist idol Francis Picabia; and the story cycles and morality tales from the 1980s and 90s, including a painting from the installation project The Tomb of the Unknown Whore.

Against such a blank canvas, the owners started adding colour and patterns.