He sometimes paints the reverse
side of the canvas which sits off the wall, so as to produce a halo effect around his work.
From 1948 on, Bacon preferred painting on the reverse (unprimed)
side of his canvas which suited his technique.
Not exact matches
The outer part
of the bag has two
canvas, elastic
side pockets with pretty bows and front
canvas pocket,
which can be used to store things like keys and wipes.
(Although another equally powerful line
of endeavor developed at the same time, in 1992 - 93: the riotously bright paintings on awning
canvas, printed with stripes or flowers,
which were first shown as a group only last winter at the Skarstedt Gallery on the Upper East
Side.)
Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts also features an earlier work, Sänger (Singer), 1965/1966, a Photo Painting with a colour chart
of various shades
of red painted on the obverse
side of the
canvas,
which provides an integral insight into the artist's conception
of the series.
Her paintings result from her varied processes
of staining, soaking, painting, and stretching the
canvas until she decides
which side is the front and
which side is the back.
Derived from the artist's «Color Key» paintings, this series
of striking, shaped
canvases offer different variations
of four -
sided forms on
which the artist considers formal relationships
of color, line, and shape.
When I approached the
canvas Encouraged Rumors from its right - hand
side, I noted passages that look Cézanne-esque, like the houses
of Mont Sainte Victoire
which he painted over and over.
Large blocks
of color seem to tumble together, but the compositions are held firm by diagonal, horizontal, or vertical stripes
of darker color
which originate at the
sides of the
canvases and move directly into the center
of the composition or frame it at the edges.
She engages with the physical aspects
of paint, repeatedly turning the
canvas on its
side to build up a dense network
of layers,
which sometimes appear more...
She engages with the physical aspects
of paint, repeatedly turning the
canvas on its
side to build up a dense network
of layers,
which sometimes appear more sculptural than painterly.
Chapter 1: Things Must be Pulverized: Abstract Expressionism Charts the move from figurative to abstract painting as the dominant style
of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors
of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development
of a rational, universal language
of art - the opposite
of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath
of Pollock's death: the early days
of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth
of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation
of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in
which figurative and abstract exist
side by
side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the
canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind
of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans
On one
side of this
canvas,
which sticks out
of the wall like something from a surrealist painting, bears on one
side one
of the blurry, photographic images that Richter specialised in during the early «60s.
There is nothing moody about their silvery, reflective surfaces or about the dazzling logic with
which the bands
of aluminum paint jog in and out in response to the discreetly shaped
canvases,
which have cutaway notches and squares at their corners,
sides and centers.
The object - like, narrative motif,
which in earlier works fractured the reference
of the monochrome, has been removed from the now empty picture plane and fixed at the
side of the
canvas.
Musing on the new found color and texture,
which she discovered by chance while noting the bleached out color on the reverse
side of a
canvas, Lynne decided to follow thru with this new direction.
In one instance, the figures have been painted on fabric printed with multicolored cartoon ghosts,
which seem to waver and vibrate as the viewer moves from one
side of the
canvas to the other.
As the gallery press release describes it: «Working from both
sides of the
canvas, and often stretching and restretching it several times before deciding
which is front or back, she stains, soaks and pours paint, sometimes forcing it through incisions or hosing down the
canvas with water.»
Sorry, I don't have specifics about the paintings, but in the two images below —
which look closely at the small painting in the picture above, you can see the odd placement
of the staples holding the
canvas to the frame, and a
side view showing the frame itself
In addition, he also experimented with a crude method
of «action - painting» (popularized by Jackson Pollock), in
which he dripped paint onto a
canvas from a swinging can with holes in the
sides.
In his first one - man show at the Peridot Gallery in 1950, he presented stained and «dripped»
canvases, influenced by his close friend Jackson Pollock, in
which stains made on the reverse
side of the
canvas were used to generate «spontaneous» painted shapes on the front.
The title
of the exhibition refers not only to the moving
of the «picture» from one
side of the
canvas to the other, but to the cinema, with
which Piffaretti has long been fascinated.
Her new paintings and works on paper present a single, animated rectangle, often thicker on the top and bottom and narrower on the
sides,
which sits slightly off - center at the bottom edge
of the
canvas or paper support.
He often utilizes torn strips
of painted
canvas and paper,
which are collaged
side by
side and are further worked with calligraphic strokes.
Between 1984 and 1995, the artist cut out one
side of a cardboard box, grinded and macerated it with pigment, then painted the mixture onto a small
canvas,
which he then stretched over the absent
side of the box.
Her «Ladybug» (1957),
which is now in MoMA's collection and was trotted out for its recent exhibition, is one
of her signature works, with its tumble
of thick or wiry, drippy strokes
of orange, blue, turquoise, purple, and other colors surging in a pack emphatically toward the left
side of the
canvas.
He has painted trompe l'oeil thumbtacks and folds
of canvas on the
sides of the pieces, the effect
of which is that the works inhabit a space somewhere between painting and sculpture.
In another, «Pink Roses,» the table upon
which a vase
of flowers sits becomes an elongated rectangle that overpowers the entire right
side of the
canvas; in «Flowers and Payne's Gray,» a tablecloth becomes an almost nightmarish swirl
of strange dark folds.
«The recent paintings
of Jorge Tacla (b. 1958), however, are made
of oil paint and cold wax on
canvas, so the relative shadow in
which they're displayed seems to have something to do with their subject: the dark
side of the human condition.
He has painted trompe l'oeil folds
of canvas on the
sides of the pieces, the effect
of which is that the works inhabit a space somewhere between painting and sculpture.
In my kitchen reveal, I had really large cutting boards leaned up against the backsplash
which is an awesome designer trick for that space, but instead I pulled the cutting boards and used the backsplash as a
canvas for the prettiest little heart made
of flowers this
side of....