Sentences with phrase «sides of the canvas»

He sometimes paints the reverse side of the canvas which sits off the wall, so as to produce a halo effect around his work.

He produced a series of paintings for this show that are inspired by playing cards, where the paintings can be turned to reveal content hidden on the other side of the canvas.

He regularly applies paint on one side of the canvas only to have it break through the paper and make their way to the side that will actually be displayed.

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.

In a 1998 painting, a field of Gorky - like violet and lavender shapes is thrown into neo-conceptualist doubt by a large looping signature applied upside - down on the top left side of the canvas.

The stray diagonal or grouping of bars and rectangles toward the top or sides of the canvas suggest looking through a window or an aerial view of landscape.

Each of his paintings is symmetrical — one side of the canvas mirrors the other, like a Rorschach test.

She has also called what inadvertently happens to the back side of the canvas as a result of the staining, soaking, and hosing - down of the paint as «received images,» or, as in the case of «March Hare,» «a completely received image,» (meaning she applied no paint at all to the back).

In A Dream... a woman peers into her reflection on the mirror in a sexualized pose which is represented in mirror image and upended on the opposing side of the canvas in reverse, flanked by a series of identical overenthusiastic male cartoon figures.

The left hand side of the canvas is taken up with white people cavorting and laying in the sun in a holidaying pose, while the other half is based on a photograph of Haitian refugees arriving in Florida.

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.

This is beautifully realised in the first work we encounter, Camino Rojo (2017): two long, thin red oblongs emerge towards each other, from opposite sides of the canvas, as if magnetically propelled.

From 1948 on, Bacon preferred painting on the reverse (unprimed) side of his canvas which suited his technique.

There are little objects protruding off from the four rigid sides of the canvas that further pushed the playful out there vibe of his art.

So he would work on one section, for instance the left side, and then he would move over to the right side of the canvas, but not be able to see what he had just done on the left.»

I am grateful to Fontana for opening to us the other side of the canvas.

Flashes of raw, overturned edge seem to show that Basquiat painted on what would usually be the reverse side of the canvas.

Gibbons» work is a painterly convergence of figuration and abstraction; resembling a Rorschach test, one side of the canvas mirrors the other, lending symmetry and precision to fluid and spontaneous bursts of color and form.

These 18 vibrant paintings to be seen on both the front and back sides of the canvas, deliberately intermix Western abstraction with social realism, pop art and politics.

Untitled (2015), which features a white background with four red circles on the points of a quadrant and a red checkmark in the middle, turns out to have two tiny drips of red paint in different places on the right and left side of the canvas.

Get a black canvas or paint the sides of the canvas black with acrylic paint to make a black - rimmed print.

When all the letters have been glued and are dry (5 - 10 minutes later), add some decorative tacks to the sides of the canvas.

If you have other color preferences for the sides of your canvas, be sure to let me know in the «notes» box when you check out your order.

Note: If you're like me and you prefer not to have your image wrapped around the sides of the canvas, they do offer mirroring instead.

Some thieves cut into the side of a canvas truck while the truck driver was sleeping and made off with thousands of dollars work of Nintendo games.

Since I've been doing it for a decade now, I generally have an idea of what I want and how to get it, but since I started working both sides of the canvases trying to make stains come through the anterior side it's been a whole new level of problem solving and micro-knowledge about canvas and solubility.

Often staining both sides of the canvas, her paintings operate as fluid scrims between still life, color field and pattern and decoration.

The sides of the canvas are also exposed to bring the viewers» attention to the natural messiness of the painting process.

The pixilated look and meticulous acumen of Hart to patiently inject acrylic paint into each bubble to seep into the reverse side of the canvas was astounding.

Other participants — including Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns — were charged with painting circles and lines, over and over again, on both sides of a canvas stretched vertically in the middle of the main room.

He would have insisted on looking to the sides of the canvas, where the paint continues.

Dona Nelson is a painter known for painting both sides of the canvas.

The image has been wildly smeared and dashed with gestural marks that work their way in from every side of the canvas, obscuring and pressuring the body imagined for this product.

DONA NELSON: I have an assistant that stands on the other side of the canvas.

In working the two sides of a canvas, Nelson eventually decides on a «front» and «back» and then permanently stretches the canvas accordingly.

Painted on both sides of the canvas, the floating abstract panels create subtly shifting relationships within the space.

Portal will demonstrate how Gueorguieva and Nelson question the intrinsic flatness of the canvas by exploring the sculptural properties of painting, in particular through the use of collage and the deconstruction of the form through the process of cutting, dyeing, ripping, gluing, and painting on both sides of the canvas.

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.

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.

Dominating the right side of the canvas is a bright cadmium yellow circle, surrounding by blue organic lines, its strange shape possibly signifying a deadly parasite seen underneath a microscope or a massive sun with penetrating rays.

The sides of the canvas have been painted by the artist so there is no need for a frame.

In Untitled (Suite «Blancs»)(1973), Hantaï also engages both sides of the canvas, using the back of an earlier oil painting as his support; faint color patches from the original work are visible within the colorful pattern, fulfilling the artist's desire to «draw out the qualities of the reverse.»

While knowledge of Abstract Expressionism encourages the informed mind to push away thoughts of (possible) figurative images on both sides of the canvas, it is impossible to ignore them.

Black on black footprints on the strips on either side of the canvas suggest how internal «journeys in darkness» provide a conducive atmosphere to focus on the finest details of communication from elsewhere.

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.

«By applying about fourteen layers of monochromatic pigment to the sides of the canvas I catalyze an interaction between the ambient light, the viewer's perception, and the work itself thereby destabilizing any sense of a fixed image in favor of a dynamic of shifting relationships... and the fascination for me continues to push the boundaries of what a painting can be and how it is perceived.»