Sentences with phrase «rectilinear shape of the canvas»

It is guided by large, geometric structures — planar outlines that present variations on the rectilinear shape of the canvas; and sometimes these outlines multiply, acquiring a luminous near - solidity, as if Tworkov were about to become a geometric abstractionist.

Not exact matches

Sarah Crowner, known over the last decade for stitching together cutout shapes of plain or painted canvas to form rectilinear abstract paintings, is sticking to first principles.

The influence of modern masters such as Henri Matisse and Piet Mondrian can be seen in works from the 1980s, such as Matisse (1989), a white and dark blue shaped canvas with a geometric motif, and Little Mondrian (1985) and Sliding Square: Green and Gold (1975), which are made up of rectilinear forms.

Rather than thinking of them in terms of Minimalism, she remembers, he told her they were «about the discomfort he felt in figuring out how two colors can rest next to each other on a canvas, and solving it in the most explicit way possible»: using colored vinyl as a readymade material, stretching it into rectilinear shapes, and composing based on color and formal relationships.5

During the 1960s and 70s, they were followed by a more ambitious range of differing geometric motifs, such as Chevrons, and later by minimalist striped patterns on lozenge and rectilinear - shaped canvases.

Color As Space surveys Valledor's use of color and vector geometry, combined with rectilinear, curvilinear and circular shaped canvases to create «sculptural tension» through painting.

But I knew where I stood, and wasn't afraid of the problem... Although these are the most radically shaped of the canvases they are also the most rectilinear in a way.