The phrase
"shaped canvas" refers to a type of artwork where the canvas, or the material a painting is done on, is cut into a form or shape that is different from the typical rectangular shape. It allows artists to create unique and unconventional compositions.
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Her piece bears that out, sharing a sensibility with 1960s - era artistic experiments
with shaped canvases.
... I don't think it was an accident that I started
shaping canvases at that crisis time in my life.
It cares too much for the wall to be quite sculpture or installation either, and its use of materials as her elements of color and composition look back to
shaped canvas as well.
More marble goes into compositions hung
like shaped canvas, in a greater variety of colors on the second floor.
He has made paintings on traditional, rectangular canvases, paintings on
differently shaped canvases, murals, prints, three - dimensional relief paintings and paintings that many people would describe as sculptures.
It's hung in a gallery with
other shaped canvases, so it seems to be two separate pieces, though it's all contained on one canvas.
Most significantly, his large «Standing Still Life» series, composed of free
standing shaped canvases, showed small intimate objects on a grand scale.
These larger, formally abstract, geometric
shaped canvases reference landscape, the human body, and the physicality of painting.
A variety
of shaped canvases form a «parade on wheels» down the gallery hallway, along with a dozen framed works on paper.
During this period, his work was included in landmark museum exhibitions that focused
on shaped canvases.
In the 1960s, he used aluminum and copper paint and began making
differently shaped canvases; not using the typical, and readily available, rectangular or square shapes.
A leading figure of the Italian avant - garde, Agostino Bonalumi explored the plasticity of the canvas in his object paintings and contributed to the emergence of irregularly
shaped canvases in the postwar period.
The Egyptian Paintings parallel
shaped canvas by Frank Stella, David Novros, Charles Hinman, and Ellsworth Kelly, to name a few.
Charles Hinman born 1932 in Syracuse, New York is an Abstract Minimalist painter, notable for creating three - dimensional
shaped canvas paintings in the mid-1960s.
With a career spanning sixty - five years and inclusion in the 2017 Venice Biennale, Zilia Sánchez is known
for shaped canvases made of material stretched over handmade wooden frames.
Painted in 1979, «Druid,» which is currently on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is one of Elizabeth's
early shaped canvas works.
In recent years Schulz has frequently brought individually stretched, small
shaped canvases into puzzle - like conjunctions against which to play drawing, color and brushwork.
Fresh comparisons helped too; a single -
shaped canvas work by Molzan had greater subtlety (compared to the five in The Forever Now) next to Lisa Williamson's painted steel Long Pants (2013).
Back in the days when Mel Ramos could paint Chiquita Banana pinups, Tom Wesselmann could sex up his still lifes by putting sunburned nudes with pubic hair into them, and Allen Jones could obnoxiously use a lifelike playmate on her knees as a coffee table, Marjorie Strider was making
shaped canvases featuring 3 - D breasts that were smartly violating the picture plane as if to one - up the men, who never noticed.
The paintings
include shaped canvases, multiple canvases joined end to end, and canvases superimposed to create three - dimensional reliefs.
This applies to even the oldest series he ever painted — in it, Joe created anthropomorphized
shaped canvases which evoke the work of Ellsworth Kelly or Blinky Palermo and resembles running figures.
To comment on the fastidious geometry of Stella's work is not to claim its total austerity; his works luxuriate in explorations of endless combinations of colors and forms, often on
unconventionally shaped canvases.
The exhibition will focus on Joe Overstreet's «Flight Patterns» series, featuring his suspended canvases made in the early 1970s alongside a select group of
shaped canvas constructions from the late 1960s.
Charles Hinman is an Abstract Minimalist painter who pioneered the concept of the three -
dimensional shaped canvas in the mid-1960s.
In the 1960s Stella's explorations of saturated color and reductive compositions became icons of the decade as he tested the limits of painting
through shaped canvases and an ever - increasing use of scale.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Smith extended the boundaries of painting into three dimensions, creating
sculptural shaped canvases with monumental presence.
In the 1960s, Hinman began working outside the conventions of a singular rectangular canvass, creating unique three dimensional works consisting of various
uniquely shaped canvases united.
UNBALANCED is the gallery's first solo - exhibition of works by Kenneth Noland and will focus on the American Color Field painter's
iconic shaped canvases from the mid-to-late 1970s.
This volume highlights the work of American artist Leon Polk Smith (1906 — 96), one of the founders of the hard - edge style of minimalist art, who rose to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s with his
distinctive shaped canvas series.
Returning to America, his individual style had a significant impact on the development of Minimal art, Systemic Painting, Hard - edge Painting, Frank Stella's
Shaped Canvas genre, and Greenberg's so - called Post-painterly Abstraction, without him actually becoming a «member» of any of these movements.
Considered one of the founders of the hard - edge style of minimalist art, Leon Polk Smith rose to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s with his distinctive
shaped canvas series — the Correspondences.
They borrow from Color Field painting and join the debate
about shaped canvases with works that are built from the inside out.
In the mid-60s, the artist made a significant change with his Irregular Polygons series of paintings, which would mark the first works on
asymmetrical shaped canvases.
Her
eccentrically shaped canvases employ a light touch and modest approach to create deceptively simple compositions that seem to will themselves into being through cumulative color washes, brush strokes and a sidelong color palette.
A pioneer in painting and former professor at Bard College, Murray is known for
distinctively shaped canvases that break with art - historical tradition and blur the lines between painting and sculpture.