Sentences with phrase «shaped white monochrome»

In the ICA's upper galleries, a series of shaped white monochrome canvases appear in conversation with each other and the surrounding architecture.

In the ICA's upper galleries, a series of shaped white monochrome canvases will be shown.

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But it was Kazimir Malevich who today is often viewed as the forefather of geometric abstraction, beginning with his seminal 1915 paintings of black shapes — a circle, a square — on a white ground, and his legendary white - square - on - white - canvas 1919 monochrome.

Meanwhile, still other artists looked back on Malevich's monochrome with paintings that conveyed form only through the shape of the canvas, like Robert Rauschenberg's early 1951 white paintings (which he considered stages for the interplay of ambient light and shadow) and Brice Marden's imposing examples from the 1960s.

She first gained attention in the mid -»60s with white, shaped - canvas monochromes and light box - like constructions made from Plexiglas and fluorescent lights.

Simultaneously chaotic and cathartic, the structures encompass a new and unique style, combining minimalist qualities with a monochrome finish, mainly black but expanding to gold and white towards the end of her career, that draw viewers» focus towards the bare shapes of objects.