I have always understood Smith's attitude toward three - dimensional objecthood as a cubic extension of the late, all - black, cruciform -
patterned square paintings of Ad Reinhardt.
Not exact matches
The quilt's
pattern of orange
squares was too dominating, so he added the pillow on top, splashed on some more
paint, and, with some logic, called the resulting work Bed.
Around 1966, one year before Reinhardt died, I was in France doing
square paintings that were all the same, with the same
pattern repeated — a black circle on a white surface.
Detail of Species of Spaces, showing a quilt
square, die cut stamps, rejected
paintings, an artist's t - shirt, clay pots, a homemade ouija board, a collage, and artist's own dust
patterns above.
All three are composed of hundreds of individual
paintings Bartlett made on
square steel plates coated in baked enamel and overlaid with a grid
pattern.
Another body of smaller
paintings, each twenty by twenty inches, present grids of nine
squares that pulsate in fantastical color, suggesting cross-like
patterns that underlie the compositions.
The 2004
painting, 4
Pattern Dub, on a monumental scale at nearly 9 feet
square, isn't a cut - up at all, but an elegant and good - humored fusion of Picasso's late Synthetic Cubist designs and the landscape abstractions of Arthur Dove.
He is best known for his series of
paintings titled Homage to the
Square, where he praises the strict form and
patterns, and the powerful nature of colors.
However, in this work Alvarez covers her vibrant
pattern of alternating
squares in a skin of clear plastic onto which she has scripted bits of text in gold glitter and
painted a circuitous black web.
Monumental in scale, the BLOCKHEADZ
paintings feature
square and rectangular cartoon faces in loose grid
patterns that recall hard - edged abstraction and color field
paintings.
Farmed fields are depicted as
patterned rectangles, slices or
squares set against each other in vivid colours such as in the recent
painting Fall Fields (2017).
The
square is the foundation for James Siena's enamel on aluminum
paintings from 2009, as his visual algorithms cascade into dizzying, pulsating
patterns.
Gerhard Richter made lively abstractions of colored boxes; Carl André lay down
squares of metal tiles in geometric
patterns on the floor; Chuck Close used the grid as a structure to expand photographs into large
paintings.
The drawings prompted by Basaldella, and Laffoley's totally wild
paintings inspired by the Indian Test
Pattern's circle - in -
square composition, are the focus of the late artist's exhibition at Francis Naumann.
Howick Place The hand
painted Dutch - wax fabric
pattern of Yinka Shonibare RA's Wind Sculpture seems to flutter in the wind and recalls the sails of his Nelson's Ship in a Bottle for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar
Square.
In the centre of each eight inch
square canvas was a five inch
square painting, a unique
pattern in many colours, and attached to the back of each was a handwritten luggage label (in Norwegian on one side and in English on the other).
An accompanying book «
Patterns» shows Richter's process using the original «Abstract
Painting»: an image of the painting was divided into vertical pieces digitally, in increasing numerical squares from 2 to 8190, and then the narrow strips of color reflected and repeated to create a new work (R
Painting»: an image of the
painting was divided into vertical pieces digitally, in increasing numerical squares from 2 to 8190, and then the narrow strips of color reflected and repeated to create a new work (R
painting was divided into vertical pieces digitally, in increasing numerical
squares from 2 to 8190, and then the narrow strips of color reflected and repeated to create a new work (Richter).
The geometric
pattern is
painted in meticulous and perfectly placed concentric
squares of color resulting in a pulsating optical illusion within the constraints of its formulaic and rigid composition.
And yet these rules are so complicated that — rather than attempting to figure them out — it is better to enjoy the
paintings just as they are: intricate and exact
patterns made up of thousands of small
squares on large circular or
square canvases.
In certain
paintings, like I O, the artist continues to use the pointillist marks of earlier pieces with a subtle
pattern of stenciled
squares.
60 - inch
square paintings by Stanley Whitney, composed in the artist's signature style of loosely
patterned grids, continue his intensive investigation of color.
Some art critics have compared Albers» Homage to the
Square series to Claude Monet's famous Water Lily
paintings, except Albers» heirs were the Americans of the late 1950s and 1960s who, while respecting the Abstract Expressionism achievement, found in his work a
pattern and an intense colour sensation on which they could build.
Painted pink with a yellow interior, the stand is flanked by matching plastic garbage cans and set back on cement painted in a four - square pattern of pale blue and
Painted pink with a yellow interior, the stand is flanked by matching plastic garbage cans and set back on cement
painted in a four - square pattern of pale blue and
painted in a four -
square pattern of pale blue and yellow.
Her monochromatic
paintings, typically tempera or emulsion on board, used simple geometrical shapes like circles,
squares, or stripes, set out in intricate, repetitive
patterns to to create movement as well as other optical effects on the viewer's physiology and psychology of perception.
In each, a certain
pattern of exchange is emphasized, from the contrasting verticality of a Donald Judd «stack» work and the countering horizontal spread of Andre's 32 - Part Reciprocal Invention, through to the mirroring surfaces of a Robert Ryman
painting and Andre's Fifth Copper
Square.
Not too sure what they did to one wall in the kitchen, it has a weird repeated
square box
pattern under the
paint that shows through.
Notice the details: For a fresh interpretation of a classic checkerboard floor, try
painting the
squares in a diagonal
pattern.
To make your own, you need: potato cut in half, foam brush, orange
paint, burlap or fabric
square,
patterned paper
square, washi tape, and any other embellishments...
I also taped off the legs and
painted them a fun English Yellow by Annie Sloan and then taped off a
square pattern for interest on the bottom shelf using a gorgeous mint green (Cosmopolitan) by Velvet Finishes.
After it dried I removed the
paint and taped it again to make a
square pattern around the border.