During this period she started creating digital works in conjunction with
her physical canvas works.
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.
Kurchanova writes: «Apart from large
canvases covered by Pollock's signature all - over web of patterned, dripped or sculpted paint, a range of his smaller abstract paintings adds complexity to our understanding of his
work as that of an «action» painter... Pollock's active engagement with printing presents his achievement as a painter to us from a completely different angle and complicates the understanding of his
work as based in
physical action and unmediated involvement of the artist's hand.
Built with wood, cardboard,
canvas, foam, and various found or store - bought items, these 3 - D
works are the
physical manifestation of her 2 - D imagery, exuding a comic and clunky theatricality that one might associate with early Claes Oldenburg.
By continually changing her
working environment with lighting, mood, and orientation of the
canvas while painting, Scully pushes the boundaries of not only her practice, but of
physical and psychological space.
In the Creation series, Furnas» technique integrates wholly with concept, as his method of pouring paint along a grooved surface on the
canvas introduces gravity into the
work in a
physical and literal sense, as the imagery depicts the sequence of events leading to the Fall of Man.
The passion, chaos, rage, and femininity of a woman's personal riot in the current political landscape can be seen throughout the
works, with the vibrant colors,
physical gauging of the paint, tearing and pressing of materials into the
canvas, and the placement and destruction of female objects creates a fiery and feminine event.
Her
canvases are unprimed and the sometimes bare surfaces are a deliberate part of the
work, just as while some paintings imply the image continues beyond the
physical constraints of the
canvas, others are literally framed.
However, whereas Monet's paintings were more concerned with the effects of light and the deconstruction of the
physical landscape, it has been argued that Mitchell's
work is more like that of van Gogh and Cézanne in its adherence to the structural grid of the
canvas.
However whereas Monet's paintings were more concerned with the effects of light and the deconstruction of the
physical landscape, it has been argued that Mitchell's
work is more similar to van Gogh and Cézanne in its adherence to the structural grid of the
canvas.
In an abrupt departure from the critically popular gestural
work of Abstract Expressionism, Kelly pursued a highly finished art, one in which his refined
canvases suggested not the hand of the artist, but rather the extracted forms of his observations of the
physical world.
While collage is an integral part of both artists»
work, they use it in different ways: Nelson controls the composition of her paintings by erecting
physical boundaries on the
canvas with gauze soaked in glue while Gueorguieva uses various means to push and move the colour as it gets absorbed by the raw
canvas.
Materiality This grouping of
works draws attention to the
physical properties of the artist's chosen materials, whether they are soaked, stained and paint - dripped
canvases or menacing shards of glass.
In his Creation series, for example, Furnas» technique integrates wholly with concept, as his method of pouring paint along a grooved surface on the
canvas introduces gravity into the
work in a
physical and literal sense, while the imagery depicts the sequence of events leading to the Fall of Man.
David Claerbout's paintings on paper are fundamental to his film practice; Ilse D'Hollander's intimate
canvases are sensual explorations of the
physical act of painting; Jose Dávila interrogates how the modernist movement has been translated, appropriated, and reinvented; Laurent Grasso's meticulous appropriations of classical paintings integrate impossible phenomena, blurring the line between the historical and contemporary; Rebecca Horn's large - scale gestural paintings evoke her early performance
work, their dimensions being determined by the artist's
physical reach; Callum Innes» Exposed Paintings are concerned with both making and unmaking the
work; Idris Khan utilizes language, melding thousands of lines of stamped text into singular abstract images; Hugo McCloud's
work fuses industrial and fine art materials; Sam Moyer combines found textures into a fresh, expanded, artistic palette; and James White's oil paintings reimagine the still life as a chance freeze - frame.
«If a painting has a
physical presence, it has an ability to transcend its literal meaning,» Zucker says, recalling his early
canvas - weave
works of the 1960s.
Working with acrylics on un-stretched
canvas, and limiting himself to the temporal constraints of quick - to - dry paint, the
works function as archives of the
physical act of painting, and as tools to record the passing of time.
Even though only one song is used for each
work, often times multiple recordings are needed to cover the
canvas surface — and those little spots between the dark strands mark the
physical and musical beginning, or ending, of each song.
While these
works reflect the atmosphere and palette of the gardens that surrounded her after she settled at Vétheuil, her painterly space clearly remains the space of Abstract Expressionism — often disjunctive, yet always primarily grounded in the
physical nature of the
canvas and the materials deployed on it.
Martinez has made a more conscious move into abstraction in recent years, and these
works have also been characterised by the
physical difficulties caused by a temporary handicap that limited the movements with which Martinez could create his large
canvases, thus turning their production into a sort of performance, whereby the artist's impairment becomes apparent in his gestural reach.
Martin
worked until her death in 2004 at the age of ninety - two; decreasing
physical facility forced her to adopt a smaller uniform size for her
canvases.
A strong
physical dimension is associated with the development of his
works: very large
canvases, enormous sculptures created with drip techniques and experimental ceramics created in a sequence of several firings.
Using a mixture of constructed wooden forms, stretched
canvases and found objects such as soda cans, tambourines light bulbs, washcloths and bath towels - Lee's
works subvert ways of portraying human
physical interaction.
Some
works take
physical issue with the discipline by disassembling or reconfiguring
canvas and stretcher, preferencing material qualities over any notion of the picture plane.
Experimenting with modulations of form, color, and plane, Clark's early abstract
works challenged the
canvas» edge and extended the visual field of painting into the
physical realm of the viewer.
I remember the feeling your
works evoked for me — a sense of
physical scale that was different than the whole Greenbergian notion of flatness, in that your approach to gesture opened up the space in front of the
canvas through the awareness of the body.
This laborious and intricate technique involves placing the
canvases on the floor of her studio and
working from a horizontal viewpoint, meaning that the scale of her
work is often informed by her own
physical body.
[7] For example, a painting by Rembrandt has a
physical existence as an «oil painting on
canvas» that is separate from its identity as a masterpiece «
work of art» or the artist's magnum opus.
Leslie Wayne's sharp show of new
work continues her interest in paint not as an embellishment on
canvas but rather a
physical material in its own right.
Lifting the title from a British punk band song (The Mekons» Where Were You), the exhibition combines prints, paintings, relief objects and
canvas works united in the minimal
physical artist involvement required to put them to fruition, but expressive of endless human hours of contemplation and refinement.
Alex Dordoy aims to expand the traditional flatness of painting and image - making by producing
Works that explore beyond the limits of the
canvas or page and move into the three - dimensional
physical world.
Dordoy aims to expand the traditional flatness of painting and image - making by producing
works that explore beyond the limits of the
canvas or page and move into the three - dimensional
physical world.
Utilizing a number of different supports including
canvas or linen, fiberboard and marble dust panel, Olson plays with the notion of surface and framing as constructs in his
work, at times, employing handmade frames and thick borders of unpainted surface around a central painted field that act as both a
physical edge to the painting and call attention to its nature as both an image and an object.
Pollock's
works in particular seemed to flow beyond the
canvas, being cut off only by the
physical limits of the
canvas edges.
In the
works exhibited the flailing bulls are trapped by the
physical limits of the
canvas.
«They're very
physical, you totally see the artist's hand
working and manipulating the
canvas.