That same year Erik began experimenting with monochromatic works — a series of acrylic drawings consisting of white and off - white squares arranged into groups of three to five panels — but tabled the idea a year later focusing his attention instead on paintings organized around a nine
square grid structure (3 rows x 3 columns).
The same year he began exploring the idea of monochromatic canvases — a series of acrylic drawings consisting of white and off - white squares arranged into groups of three to five panels — but tabled the idea a year later to focus his attention on paintings organized around a nine
square grid structure.
Not exact matches
You will discover, in each cortical layer that you inspect, a sheathlike
structure that essentially resembles a two - dimensional
square grid.
One might expect that with a
square support the components of the
grid would be
squares also, forming a Cartesian
grid in which the two symbolic
structures of Modernist formal rigor would reinforce each other, as they do in Reinhardt's black paintings.
While teaching at Jepson Art School in Los Angeles, he found «a delicious stone» to create intimate lithographic prints (each 3 x 3 inches) based on a
grid structure of 16
squares.
His fundamental concern with the relationship between «order» and «disorder» is manifest in his
grid structures, derived from the «magical
squares,» that feature sayings and aphorisms that stem from cultural, philosophical, mathematical and linguistic contexts.
Like his architecture Richard Meier's collages are clean and
structured on the surface, the images constrained by a
grid and formatted in a
square, the ideal and basic architectural unit.
Gerhard Richter made lively abstractions of colored boxes; Carl André lay down
squares of metal tiles in geometric patterns on the floor; Chuck Close used the
grid as a
structure to expand photographs into large paintings.
Narrow metalpoint lines form an even
grid of 36 separated
squares that form the basic
structure and serve as a spatial context for irregular events on the surface.
Grids, stripes, circles and
squares often taken from decorative
structures gleaned from everyday usage (a hyper personal lexicon of graphic, architectural and popular culture motifs) are re-presented as, and within, frames, irises, misaligned systems and off - register imprints.
Without color, Whitney uses line and density to create variety among the
squares that compose the
grid structures in these drawings.
The range of eight colours and the cube
structure were selected specifically to complement the bright green paintwork on the
grid of
square glass panes set into the entrance to the Clore.
Much of this knowledge was later transposed into complex, diagrammatic pictures such as Family Portrait (1958) and The Great Mystery II (1960; both Buffalo, NY, Albright — Knox A.G.), which are characterized by
grid structures of tiny
squares in bright opaque colours.
Rhythmic and lyrical, with a combination of pre-ordained
structure and improvisation inspired in part by his love of jazz, the
square - format paintings arrange rectangles of vivid, single colors in a deliberately irregular
grid, with the close - fitting, many - hued «bricks» or «tiles» stacked vertically and arrayed in horizontal bands.