Sentences with phrase «square circle painting»

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A squared circle, subdivided to suggest an approximation of the compositional matrix of his black paintings, is ringed by collaged illustrations of monsters and saints that shorthand some of the values embodied by his photographic typologies.

Done by staining diluted acrylic paint onto raw, unsized canvas — a technique Mr. Noland learned from Helen Frankenthaler — they consist of concentric circles in a variety of colors centered on a square canvas.

Around 1966, one year before Reinhardt died, I was in France doing square paintings that were all the same, with the same pattern repeated — a black circle on a white surface.

Later he began his Protractor Series (71) of paintings, in which arcs, sometimes overlapping, within square borders are arranged side - by - side to produce full and half circles painted in rings of concentric color.

Powerful dualities — circle and square, spirit and body, light and substance — are the central subject of his radiant abstract paintings.

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.

Tadasky works differently, applying paint as raw color without taping, using the proximity of his rings to create optical blending in his circle - in - the - square compositions.

A flamboyant character and a key figure in the Ferus Gallery circle in Los Angeles, Billy Al Bengston is associated with West Coast Pop and best known for spray painting dented sheets of square aluminum with lacquer.

Malevich's painted volumes on white ground — circles, cruciforms, squares — ticked along and still do, setting off those tremendously interesting conversations among artists and art historians who stood and stand agog at the implications of his mute, ineffably powerful action of visual declamation.

And in Harran, you can almost imagine these interlacing colored circles rolling through these static squares that are positioned all along the painting.

In two recent series, one of rounded - squares that look somewhat like television or computers screens and the other of black concentric circles that resemble targets, he turns painting into an industrial project in the manner of photography by making multiple painted copies of a single one - off photographic image.

It is the fabulous balance of red and white squares in a Malevich gouache, or the glowing sheaves of fluorescent tubes in a Dan Flavin sculpture; it is Hélio Oiticica's black and white rectangles swing - dancing across a painted board, and Sophie Taeuber - Arp's cross-stitch embroidery of circles and triangles holding hands, as it seems, with a big scarlet square.

Jones favors lines, circles, squares, and ovals formed by shaped canvases that he carves, cuts, etches, and paints like a craftsman, while Slater layers the paint over the surface resulting in images that are never flat, line - driven, or hard - edge.

The first decades of the 20th Century hinted at the end of easel painting, when Kasimir Malevitch created his beautiful, black squares, crosses and circles and Louis Aragon claimed in «Challenge to Painting» (1930) that «absolutely nothing in the world will be changed if one ceased to paint altogetherpainting, when Kasimir Malevitch created his beautiful, black squares, crosses and circles and Louis Aragon claimed in «Challenge to Painting» (1930) that «absolutely nothing in the world will be changed if one ceased to paint altogetherPainting» (1930) that «absolutely nothing in the world will be changed if one ceased to paint altogether.»

For 30 years before his death in 1995, John Stephan painted nothing but discs: perfect circles inscribed on square canvases in a variety of colors and intensities, from searing reds and yellows to calm browns and grays.

Referring to works based on «the supremacy of pure artistic feeling» rather than on visual depiction of objects, it favours basic geometric forms, such as circles, squares, lines, and rectangles, painted in a limited range of colours.

His is that rare brand of abstraction that feels convincingly organic: neither secretly symbolic nor aspiringly decorative; capable of drawing true poetic meaning from the conscientious arrangement of things in themselves — paint, wood, ceramic, cement; circles, squares, lines and curves.

Here's a good example, from a recent exhibition statement by the London abstract painter Cuillin Bantock (who is by no means an unintelligent writer): «Sixty years ago the British painter Patrick Heron pointed out that non-figuration was an ideal impossible of achievement, commenting further that Ben Nicholson's painting of four greyish circles in a greyish square eventually came to resemble the hob of an electric oven.

This intimate exhibition catalogue, produced to accompany Marlborough gallery's recent posthumous New York exhibition of R.B. Kitaj's small paintings, most of which measure well less than two feet square, and many of which depict his astonishingly influential circle of friends and heroes — Creeley, Auden, Freud, Arendt, Greenberg — is also a memorial of sorts.

Like three untitled paintings from 1956 where large Xs renounce a circle, a square, and a rectangle, «Work (Yellow Cloth)» feels simultaneously like an impassioned renunciation of the past and the triumphant declaration of a free future.

There are twelve large paintings, all of which have a clockface silkscreened onto them — a numbered circle centered in a square format.

The drawings prompted by Basaldella, and Laffoley's totally wild paintings inspired by the Indian Test Pattern's circle - in - square composition, are the focus of the late artist's exhibition at Francis Naumann.

At Gavin Brown's Enterprise, the artist Jonathan Horowitz organized a project in which 700 attendees were asked to paint a circle, in black, on a pre-stretched square white canvas.

Relocating to Paris in 1961, he would concentrate on painting, exploring circles and squares, and by 1968 had begun to produce sculpture.

The whole composition is focused on basic geometric forms, such as circles, squares, lines, and rectangles, painted in a limited range of colors.

He has worked with a wide variety of shaped painting supports, including squares, rectangles, crosses, circles, and ovals.

Artist Jonathan Horowitz at Gavin Brown Gallery gave visitors a twelve - inch square of canvas to paint a freehand circle in black paint, who received a $ 20 dollar cheque for their efforts.

Alfred Julio Jensen was an abstract painter whose paintings are often characterized by grids of brightly colored triangles, circles or squares, painted in thick impasto

What I get from Ortman is a relative kind of aesthetic tenacity, an ability to stay within the flow, as his paintings move gradually from one incremental painterly idea to another without ever losing touch with the modular concept of arranged parts — squares, triangles, circles, diamonds, and arrows.

For Tadasky, the framing square format of his paintings is as essential as the concentric circles within it, allowing each painting to act as a means of entry into a transformative space.

He developed this signature hard - edge style over the following decade, beginning with creating a series of paintings in which he explores the circle by developing a curvilinear shape within it using two colours, and later experimenting with more colours in oval, rectangular and square shapes.

Speculation on its meaning runs from references to the four members of his family, the four elements, the four seasons, the four humors, the four corners of the earth — and to Carl Gustav Jung's «quaternity, the fourfold nature of the psyche, and its relationship to mandalas and to the notion of «squaring the circle»» (J. Flam, K. Rogers, T. Clifford, Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941 - 1991, Volume Two, cf.. In Black and Pink with the Number Four, «Commentary,» New Haven, 2012, p. 200).

Name given by the Russian artist Kasimir Malevich to the abstract art he developed from 1913 characterised by basic geometric forms, such as circles, squares, lines and rectangles, painted in a limited range of colours

Her monochromatic paintings, typically tempera or emulsion on board, used simple geometrical shapes like circles, squares, or stripes, set out in intricate, repetitive patterns to to create movement as well as other optical effects on the viewer's physiology and psychology of perception.

The catalogue for a 1994 exhibit at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston entitled The Circle Paintings, 1956 — 1963 mentioned 175 known circle paintings, the smallest being only 13 inches square, the largPaintings, 1956 — 1963 mentioned 175 known circle paintings, the smallest being only 13 inches square, the largpaintings, the smallest being only 13 inches square, the largest, 117.

After I marked off and painted a blue square in the corner, I found a spare lamp shade to pencil a perfect circle.

WALL Painted in Apple Smiles II, square, and Stable Green, circle, pure flat emulsions, both # 42.50 for 2.5 l, Paint & Paper Library.