Marca - Relli often worked in collage, «drawing» rapidly with a razor blade, cutting
pieces of canvas into random shapes and dispersing them across the picture surface.
Not exact matches
In the research, published in the October 2012 issue
of Geriatrics and Gerontology International, participants were divided
into three groups, each
of which completed twice - weekly activities that involved working with either a
piece of velvet,
canvas or Velcro.
I cut two
pieces of ribbon, centered them, flipped over the
canvas, and hot glued the ribbons
into place.
Instead
of a folding hard top or
canvas covering, we get two carbon - fiber
pieces (each weighing 13.2 pounds) which snap
into place.
Part
of a series
of 102 silkscreened
canvas panels conceived as one painting with multiple components, in this
piece there are elements that call to mind Franz Kline's investigations
into calligraphic compulsions.
The technique leads him through a flipping and rotating adventure, employing squeegees and a suite
of brushes for each layer on the
canvas, a genesis from a horizontal and vertical bedrock
into a finished
piece.
A typical Cordy Ryman lies in a hybridized zone between sculpture and painting;
pieces of wood or perhaps
canvas may be isolated like small geometric paintings or even extended
into the full expanse
of the rooms in which they are installed, following a kind
of modular accumulation strategy.
A former New Museum guard and painter who pulled a Baldessari in 2006, burning a decade's worth
of his
canvases and converting the ash
into new work, he recently joined Johann König's Berlin gallery, which brought these
pieces to the fair: metal tubes that the artist had fabricated with a later
of gold plating on the inside and then attacked with a chainsaw.
The monochromatic Yellow
Piece (1966), a
canvas with two
of its corners bending
into curves, relies on the viewer's reading
of it as an incomplete square for it to work.
This
piece, a hybrid
of sculpture and painting at Marianne Boesky Gallery, takes the formally rigorous experiments
of Piet Mondrian
into the third dimension, adding physical weight and heft to shapes that the Dutch artist treated with such verve on
canvas.
The
canvas is a masterful example
of the gestural abstraction for which Mitchell has become so rightly famous; composed
of passages
of delicate brushstrokes juxtaposed with anamorphous blocks made up
of alternating light and dark tones, Blueberry provides a matchless example
of Mitchell's ability to bring together seemingly incongruous elements
into one harmonious
piece.
Physically moving around a black - on - black painting
of a cubic grid will reveal layers
of optical illusions, while simply blinking when standing in front
of a
canvas covered in a complex navy - and - white pattern tricks the eye
into seeing an oscillating, three - dimensional
piece of art.
On the eighth floor, Ms. Owens leaps
into the round, in an installation
piece consisting
of five free - standing
canvases painted on both sides.
Drawing on the traditions
of Abstract Expressionism, he creates strongly articulated
pieces:
canvases on heavy stretchers, abutting panels and architectural constructions that project themselves
into the viewer's space.
The two
pieces by Julie Torres are both conceptual works about capital - p Painting: «Room with a View» is a small
canvas on which super-thick layers
of acrylic paint make something that appears, all at once, like a window, a picture inset
into photo corners, the back
of a stretched
canvas.
Marcel Duchamp is usually credited as inventing the readymade, but the essential idea
of taking something preexisting and elevating it
into art did exist before he created his first one (a bicycle wheel atop a kitchen stool) in 1913: in Pablo Picasso's Still Life With Chair Caning from 1912, for example, the artist collaged a
piece of woven chair backing onto a two - dimensional
canvas, and before that Degas clothed his Little Dancer
of Fourteen Years (1881) in a real tutu.
«The process
of making these is so slow and organic — like creating an aftermath or a debris field where you intuit, and sometimes actually make out, the lives
of many generations
of humans, alongside nonhuman traces, and objects, all laid down under pressure — which take time to make and are filled with that time,
pieces of what might have been a larger
canvas of handiworks that reference entire lives, whole communities that are brought
into the field
of the painting, where the painting itself becomes another community,» described Sacks his painting method in a 2014 interview with Natasha Kurchanova published on Studio International.
As in so many
of Stingel's works, the painting is transformed from a
canvas into a
piece of interior architecture that resonates across multiple artistic registers.
Sol LeWitt cleanly tears a
piece of white paper
into stark geometric sections in R115, 1973, generating an elegant composition with a simple gesture, while Robert Ryman defamiliarizes the monochrome in Untitled, 1967, a white - painted
canvas square affixed directly to the white wall with masking tape.
Often combining two or more abstract forms
into one
piece to create a three - dimensional composite wall relief, the surface
of the
canvas is painted using industrial materials such as oil - based enamel and spray paint.
In addition to
canvas collages, Loving also began
piecing together torn strips
of paper and cardboard
into massive compositions that he would paint in a variety
of colors and mount to metal supports so that they jut out from the wall, causing shadows that in effect became part
of the overall composition.
He then applies it to
canvas, often setting the dry acrylic
pieces into a field
of wet paint, essentially creating inlaid paintings where the sense
of spatial relations is not readily apparent.
In close proximity to his
canvas works, Amm's wall and sculptural
pieces project his deftly constructed compositions from the surface
of the
canvas into the multi dimensional space
of architecture.
It is all that is left
of a week - long performance
piece in which she unraveled a painting on a
canvas, before reassembling it
into physical doodles.
Given the simple assignment to render some kind
of bouquet on a 40» x30»
piece of unstretched
canvas, they all went
into their studios to do what they do best: paint.
The movement
of the painter's brush stroke comes
into focus... paint is pushed or pulled across each
canvas differently in every
piece.
After sewing each fragment onto a
piece of canvas, Cloud cuts the
canvas into the shape
of the clothing, and then sews the resulting items
into a larger, oddly shaped patchwork «quilts.»
By the time I was in graduate school, I began dealing with the problem
of image / object where I took the
canvas off the stretcher, folded it
into zigzag shapes, painted on both sides, and they became sort
of like feminized versions
of Robert Morris's felt
pieces.
The most significant
of these is «Elegy to the Spanish Republic», which originated in 1948 in a
piece of calligraphy he made
of a brutal Harold Rosenberg poem; it evolved
into some 150 monumental
canvases, painted between 1949 and 1990.
Another
canvas inspired by Renaissance paintings
of self - flagellating saints was made by striking
canvas with paint - soaked whips, then cutting it
into pieces and sewing it back together in a quilt pattern.
Dropping
pieces of cut paper onto a surface and gluing them down where they lay; dripping or flinging paint across a
canvas; letting the progressive decay
of organic materials determine a composition; and flipping coins to compose a musical scores — these are some
of the processes used by artists included in the volume that both tap
into the creative potential
of chance and control its operation.
Her work includes personified abstract forms that jump from
piece to
piece, personal objects embedded in
canvases, and plenty
of autobiographical ephemera worked
into painterly compositions.
Schulz and Bandau: In recent
pieces at Sweetow, Bay Area painter Cornelia Schulz goes deeper
into a vein she has worked for some years: the multi-part shaped
canvas as a foil for one
of abstract painting's potential weaknesses: the merely decorative.
Rappaport engages in further allusive mischief in a fine untitled
piece whose cruciform composition - made
of found wood and
of green acrylic layered so heavily that it formed a slab - seems to bite
into and wrinkle its
canvas support, framed within a frame.
The first, in which I discussed the merits
of the
canvases, and how and why they were created, I chose to rewrite after I discovered that many
pieces of information available about the show online (some
of which factored
into my original evaluation
of the work), were fabricated by Ripps himself.
Even transposed to the museum's main gallery, with small, green - toned
canvas studies arranged on an overlooking wall to evoke the forest environs in Kassel, the work did not disappoint, communicating the sheer physicality that goes
into the accumulation and composition
of materials for Ohtake's collage and assemblage
pieces.
Often stitching and adhering fragments and strips from earlier painted
pieces onto larger
canvases, he summons the memory
of his mother, a seamstress who parlayed her talent at sewing dresses, hats, and Indian saris
into a successful business.
Now that you've bought your home and it is your
canvas — and you're the artist that'll mold it
into your unique
piece of paradise.
Fabric
Canvas — Take all
of your favorite
pieces or the ones that are too small and turn them
into some lovely wall art for your craft room or any room in your house!
Or if you're starting from a blank
canvas, first pick another item, such as a patterned fabric or a
piece of art, to incorporate
into the room and choose your accent color from a hue found in your pick.