Sentences with phrase «rectangular shape of the canvas»

Not exact matches

In 1960 Stella started introducing right angles into his stripes, but a funny thing happened: on a rectangular canvas, once you change the shape of the stripes, you're left with a blank space.

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.

Punctuating the monochromatic white and silver artworks are two early red shaped canvases: Superficie rossa n. 8 (1966) and Superficie angolare rossa (1961), both of which decidedly announce Castellani's break with the trajectory of painting to that point by rupturing the rectangular or square format.

The «Open» series was born when Motherwell noticed the enticing «congress of shapes» created by a smaller rectangular painting leaning up against a larger canvas in his studio.

A full wall of softly defined abstract images on separate canvases shaped one wall of the Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles / OMO art space — rectangular and square the images remind the viewer of architectural constructs.

Panels and canvases adorn the walls, and these square and rectangular grids house their own series of shapes and lines.

Not strictly a minimalist, he has made a number of monochrome paintings on shaped canvases and single color rectangular panels.

All the paintings feature repeating bands or stripes of a single color applied to canvases that start out rectangular and end up emphatically shaped, resembling big letters.

In addition to circles comprised of perfectly and colorfully painted stripes, Tadasky has painted his famous stripes on narrow rectangular and large triangular - shaped canvases, but he always returned to the circular compositions.

Challenging the confinement of the rectangular plane, Smith expanded the three - dimensional elements of his canvases, warping them outwards, adding various shapes to their edges, and dispensing of stretchers all together, hanging sheets of painted canvas like giant kites.

Challenging the confinement of the rectangular plane, Smith expanded the three - dimensional elements of his canvases, warping them outwards, adding various shapes to their edges, and dispensing of stretchers...

Quaytman's canvases were often oddly shaped, and later on in his career his abstractions began moving toward a style of rectangular shapes and bold color palettes.

Yellow Piece (1966), the artist's first shaped canvas, represents Kelly's pivotal break with the rectangular support and his redefinition of painting's figure / ground relationship.

Gorchov emerged in the 1960s and 70s as part of a group of Manhattan - based abstract artists, such as Frank Stella, Richard Tuttle, Blinky Palermo and Ellsworth Kelly, who rejected the ubiquitous rectangular canvas in favour of new shapes and configurations.

'» The floating effect of the facade's relief is reminiscent of Kelly's recent relief paintings, many of which feature a shaped canvas placed on top of a rectangular or triangular canvas.

Gorchov became a strong artistic force in the late 1960s and early 70s within a group of Manhattan - based abstract artists, such as Frank Stella, Richard Tuttle, Blinky Palermo and Ellsworth Kelly, who rejected the ubiquitous rectangular canvas in favour of new shapes and configurations.

«It's just beautiful,» he said about the 1951 - 53 vertical, more than 6 - foot - tall canvas, depicting a grid of rectangular shapes in subtle shades of blue.

Each consists of a layering of black rectangular stripes, fanning out like the citadels of some lost Assyrian city, taking their shape from the canvas itself.

Paul Reed has created luminous paintings — stretched, not stretched, square, rectangular and dynamically shaped, on canvas, muslin and paper — that explored transparency through a range of subject matter spanning mandalas, biomorphic shapes, discs and geometric abstractions.

American painter Frank Stella swept aside the existential angst of Abstract Expressionism with his rejection of traditional rectangular - shaped canvases and with his refusal to make any psychological or metaphysical references in his work.

The remnants, or ghosts, of other paintings are found in another series of canvases where the negative space of a given shape has been filled out into rectangular compositions via a stitching technique using dental floss.

For more than thirty years she has intermittently explored a stair - step motif brushed within rectangular fields or expressed through irregularly shaped canvases, which happen to rhyme with the dramatic setbacks and grid lines of the Whitney's new building.

In his early «black paintings» Stella exhibits the precision and rationality that characterized minimalism, employing parallel angular stripes to emphasize the rectangular shape of his large canvases.

Hill makes traditional rectangular paintings and shaped canvases she calls «Cut Outs,» which are reminiscent of Elizabeth Murray, Frank Stella, and a heterogeneous set of contemporaries.