Sentences with phrase «smaller paintings against»

Lean smaller paintings against the wall and on top of a wood bureau.

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Set to the backdrop of the Detroit race riots, the film's opening sequences paint a striking picture of a city in violent chaos, but its broad scope soon gives way to a more focused telling of police brutality against a small group of youths.

Aside from a little debris in one of the plastic name badges — featuring a white lion and a red cross against a blue background — and a small streak of discolored paint on one fender, Sterling's workmanship was hard to fault.

I had decided against beginning with a general overall wash but to work in smaller sections and retain the whites by painting around them.

Sotheby's has a smaller 2016 painting by her in a day sale the day before its evening sale, estimated at $ 40,000 to $ 60,000, and a 2013 painting by her sold in a day sale at Sotheby's London last fall for about $ 35,900 against a presale estimate of about $ 19,600 — $ 26,000.

Unlike her early paintings, this small group of works shows West's increasing experiments with more varied compositional patterns and the drama of forceful brushstrokes, usually black against white unprimed canvas.

In Bischoff's earliest non-representational paintings the abstract shapes are large, still deriving from figures against a background; gradually, the shapes have become smaller and more fragmented.

The «Open» series was born when Motherwell noticed the enticing «congress of shapes» created by a smaller rectangular painting leaning up against a larger canvas in his studio.

Formally Goodman is painting large areas against small passages, thick against thin, small figures against hulking abstract forms, raw emotion against the sheer material sensuality of the paint.

In these playful, environmental works, such as spinach and banana (2013), Estna arranges her paintings in various positions, tilting them against walls, hanging them, and placing them on their sides; she often extends patterns to fabrics heaped on the floor and small spheres placed on pedestals, or drills holes into canvases so that light shines through them.

In the small back room of Leadbased, the artist - in - residence stands against the wall, paintbrush poised in its prosthetic hand, admiring four of its latest abstract landscape paintings.

In Lute Music to a Heathen (2016), she paints a portrait of a black man seated facing sideways, looking away from his viewer; the sitter is dressed in black sleeveless t - shirt and trousers accentuated with a white belt, one hand tucked into his trouser as another holds up a small bird against a monochrome harlequin background.

Katz, for starters, went against the grain and painted small - sized, representational pictures on Masonite panels for much of the 1950s... In ten short years, Alex Katz went from being an art student to a fledgling artist to a mature painter and collage and cutout maker.»

He happened on the theme in the late 1960's, when he leaned a small painting, its back facing forward, against a larger canvas whose surface had already been painted.

Marc Glimcher, the proprietor of Pace, was leaning against the wall of his gallery's booth, which was painted light blue and had a series of small Kiki Smith sculptures of birds and wolves that looked like they were leaping through an azure sky.

Looking cheap compared to some of his contemporaries like Christopher Wool (b. 1955), a small yellow joke painting by Richard Prince (b. 1949) fetched the princely sum of # 242,500 ($ 405,000) at Sotheby's against a high estimate of # 120,000 ($ 201,000).

I think there can always be something that surfaces visually in an abstract painting, if it's not a grid it will be a landscape, a still life, a garden, a face, especially when reduced to a small image on a screen, which can sometimes encapsulate the main properties in a work which might not be so evident while up against the canvas painting.

A neon sign with the title of the exhibition, referring to the title of the art - history guidebook 1,001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die (2007), rested on the floor against the gallery walls, which were covered with dozens of small A4 paper - sized monochromatic canvases arranged in a grid.

The particularly obvious wire mesh backing on the walls reconfigures the work into a contemporary context, rather unlike the Barnett Newman Zip painting haphazardly placed on a small narrow stairwell against white and yellow flowery wallpaper.

Where Carolyn's circle sags a little against the wall in a gesture that suggests rest, you support your small paintings on top of nails, which are tacked into a horizontally level graphite line, and lean them against the wall.

Against backgrounds painted in broad swaths of acrylic interspersed with highly - ornamented elements and outlined in charcoal, the detailed worlds of these smaller, printed panes create a heavily - designed pattern on the skin and floor of the central scene depicted.

However, in the West, history painting came to require an extensive landscape background where appropriate, so the theory did not entirely work against the development of landscape painting — for several centuries landscapes were regularly promoted to the status of history painting by the addition of small figures to make a narrative scene, typically religious or mythological.

I met David Rhodes (b. 1955, Manchester, UK) in a Greenwich Village loft where his black and white paintings, both large and small, leaned against walls and were propped on all bookshelves and tabletops.

Sy Hakim's large landscape painting, Formations — Daylight, describes a beautiful yet challenging world, the small figure seems huddled against the power of the landscape, the outcroppings hang high above his head, a daunting climb but a great view from the top.

The small scale of her paintings on aluminum can assert a feminist stance against male appropriation of abstraction.

Typically fields of color marked with faint charcoal lines suggesting a door or a window, the Open paintings were originally inspired by the sight of a small canvas leaning against a larger one.

On display are six small, glittering silver casts, outlining the shape of haphazardly placed globules of paint against a perfectly flat and reflective surface.

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This design is made extra special set against a painted wall and turns a small seating area into a magical spot.

I was once told to think of the paint molecules as floating around with space between them, then as it dries over that first 24 hours - the space between them gets smaller and the paint gets tighter against the surface.

A painted wooden anchor rested against each vase on top of a small blue ticking fabric placemat.