Sentences with phrase «pressing against a canvas»

To make it, Hammons greased his body, pressed against the canvas and sprinkled charcoal or pigment over the result — not an art form you see every day.

These sculptures and others from the last twenty years are quite different from Hammons's body prints (the earliest works in the show), which he made by smearing his body in oils and pressing it against canvas.

Using toxic colors and combinations, Flood started making paintings from paint soaked lace pressed against a canvas, showing the age and wear endured by the battered lace before its last incarnation in printmaking.

Jenny Saville, «Ancestors» Opening: 6 — 8 p.m., Gagosian, 522 West 21st Street What you should know: YBA painter Jenny Saville hasn't had a New York solo in some seven years, so your appetite should by now be whetted for her grotesque depictions of bodies under duress, pressed against the canvas as a pane of glass, or grotesquely overweight, all recalling her countryman Lucian Freud's hungry paintings of abject flesh.

Not exact matches

Take the fresh placenta and press the side with all the blood vessels branching out like a tree, against a white canvas or art paper.

Those curved areas may look back to Henri Matisse as well, pressed against a painting's edge like the leg and torso of a grand nude — even as that very edge takes on a touch of bare canvas that seems to change its dimensions and to divide a painting into two slightly misaligned panels.

Other compositions in this series feature an assortment of shapes — including Xs and ziggurats — all pressed against the edges of the square and rectangular canvases and all similarly striped with such colors as goldenrod and cool green.

Over the next two years, he began to make a new kind of picture, the «anthropométry,» by covering models with paint and having them press their bodies against paper or canvas.

With layered washes of similarly hued watercolors, the canvases of this London - based German artist seem at first monochromatic, but slight changes in light or a viewer's position reveal clusters of dancers, a single body pressed up against the edges of the picture plane, or a moonlit landscape.

Done with oil sticks pressed directly against the canvas, a method Mr. Goldberg chose some years ago over brushing with paint, they are energetic productions based on what he called a «quasi grid,» with patchy squares of color intersected at random by strong diagonals.

Her process for these works — layering images created by pressing her oil - covered body against the canvas surface, and then brushing or spraying pigment onto it — is one of simultaneous concealing and exposing.

Do not allow any rigid object to press against the front or back surface of the stretched canvas as this could create permanent indentation damage.

The room a claustrophobic teeming heap, as if what Guston wanted to express was pressed up against the canvas attempting to rupture its surface.

In her exhibition last year at Mitchell - Innes & Nash on Madison Ave, she displayed her body prints, made by covering her body in oils and pigments and then pressing it against the surface of canvas or paper.

Michael Goldberg loved oil stick, for the way it presses up against canvas, in broad smears or freehand traces.