According to Ann Edison Gibson's essay Norman Lewis: Black Paintings, 1946 - 1977, this series is one of the artist's major achievements: «the Seachanges deserve to be considered along with Mark Rothko's late dark paintings, Franz Kline's late black - and - color paintings, and Ad Reinhardt's deeply black
square paintings as landmarks of late Abstract Expressionism.»
Not exact matches
Musée des beaux arts Located in the historic Place de Miremont
square, the fine - arts and archeology museum houses a collection of artifacts from Vienne's Roman past,
as well
as paintings from the 16th to early 20th centuries.
The tabloids: The appearance of all - but - nude body -
painted babes in sanitized Times
Square — once home to strictly family friendly characters like anti-Semitic Elmos and cop - punching Spider - Men — gave editors of the city's scandal sheets the opportunity to plaster their pages with sexy pics and indignant headlines, engaging in what one Observer contributor described
as the unbeatable paper - selling combo of «simultaneous shaming and titillating.»
In the Anthropocene we might one day cherish a
square metre of untouched wilderness
as much
as a
painting of the same size by Van Gogh or Cézanne.
In the Anthropocene we may one day cherish a
square metre of wilderness
as much
as a
painting of the same size by Van Gogh or Cézanne.
As part of a project known as Cool Roofs, volunteers in New York City have been painting black roofs white and have so far covered more than 500,000 square meters of roof, though that's less than one percent of the possible are
As part of a project known
as Cool Roofs, volunteers in New York City have been painting black roofs white and have so far covered more than 500,000 square meters of roof, though that's less than one percent of the possible are
as Cool Roofs, volunteers in New York City have been
painting black roofs white and have so far covered more than 500,000
square meters of roof, though that's less than one percent of the possible area.
That's a shame, because watching
Square Enix's first anime short inspired by the game
paints it
as a poignant experience.
Built by Platinum Games, the JRPG was
painted as a rather niche title — A year later, the game has sold approximately 2.5 million copies, smashing publisher
Square Enix's expectations.
With a
square - shaped pastiche (Cronenberg never uses cinemascope) he
paints with an almost silent film - like nerve,
as if the great F.W. Murnau himself were guiding his hand.
Optima battery Gas Tank - new 17 gallon Rear Gear Ratio - 2.75 for easy freeway driving Entire floor pan lizard skinned and Dynamat for noise and temp control Sway Bar both Front and Rear for much improved handling Interior - Carpet - firewall to rear gate new
Square Weave Seat - Custom made Front seat that teaches from door to door, all seat materials new, seat belts Dash - Beautiful custom hand
painted wood grain, chrome gauge surround Steering Column - new Ididit with Budnick Banjo Steering Wheel All items listed
as new was when Woodie was updated 2010 Mileage 8,162 since Restoration.
Small,
square - frame illustrations, a gentle narrative, and a celebratory spirit provide a clear, sensitive portrait of Henri Matisse, story and soul alike, tracing his career
as it evolved from
paintings to paper cutouts.
Malls like 50 Penn Place and Casady
Square are resident favorites, and the city also hosts numerous art galleries with art for sale, such
as Painted Door and 50 Penn Place.
Alamo
Square is also known
as Postcard
Square, because so many San Francisco postcards are made from pictures of the
Painted Ladies.
As well as being home to John Virtue paintings and a sculpture by Tony Cragg, the hotel building was designed by architect John Nash, whose works include Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square, the adjoining Haymarket Theatre, and mor
As well
as being home to John Virtue paintings and a sculpture by Tony Cragg, the hotel building was designed by architect John Nash, whose works include Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square, the adjoining Haymarket Theatre, and mor
as being home to John Virtue
paintings and a sculpture by Tony Cragg, the hotel building was designed by architect John Nash, whose works include Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar
Square, the adjoining Haymarket Theatre, and more.
Take a stroll to Alamo
Square to see the pastel -
painted houses on a hill known as the «Painted Ladies.
painted houses on a hill known
as the «
Painted Ladies.
Painted Ladies.»
I am just
as happy to set up my easel on a quiet beach
as I am to
paint outside the National Gallery overlooking Trafalgar
Square.
If you think that
Square Enix's upcoming Final Fantasy X / X -2 Remaster is nothing but a new coat of
paint, then you'll be glad to know that a couple of new features are coming for both titles,
as illustrated by this new trailer.
Without the delicious new coat of
paint this game has received for the new console, the game also includes all the released DLC for the game which is mainly why
Square Enix labelled it
as the Definite Edition so for those you that haven't played through the DLC yet there's another carrot on a stick for you to go out and get this game right now.
Washy runs of
paint are employed late in the game,
as are triangles, trapezoids, and
squares — solid forms that are, in the context of Martin's pictorial equanimity, gratifyingly rude.
Very small pictures, if
painted by gifted artists and installed in an adequate version of what Dave Hickey once dubbed a «clean, well - lighted place,» can produce exhibitions just
as ambitious and adventurous
as larger - scale projects... these canvases address significant issues related to their respective genres while averaging little more than a
square foot apiece.»
The photographs of Roy Lichtenstein span several decades and document the artist in his studio with his
paintings and completing his iconic murals, such
as: the fleeting 1963 «Greene Street Mural,» the permanent 1989 «Tel Aviv Museum of Art Mural,» and the collage for «Times
Square Mural».
As I mentioned before, Humphries has often preferred the
square, like Whitney, and looking at these new
paintings, I thought at first they were
square too.
Expectations of unbridled colour are met with rigorous restraint,
as with a pastel Twombly
painting, a dusty Yayoi Kusama chair, wispy drawings by Dieter Roth and Arthur Köpcke, and a grey iteration of Josef Albers's serial Homage to the
Square.
At the far ends of the room, two mostly
square paintings with a decided orange tendency are in dialogue, while the shorter axis is dominated by more vertical
paintings with green
as a unifying hue.
The exhibition — which New York Magazine hailed
as «superb» — includes a suite of six inch
square paintings that feature bravura depictions of tire stores, muddy roads and rutted asphalt.
If the artist is using geometry to construct a
painting, like so many since the early 1960s, it feels more like doing math than if the artist shows a
square as an image floating in a field, like a character in a graphic novel.
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.
During the 1930s, Graham continued to push abstraction with still life
paintings that employed a minimum of color and linear forms with titles that affirmed his commitment to the style, such
as Red
Square, 1934, and Abstract Composition, 1941.
These pieces include a pair of
paintings by Nak - Beom Kho, depicting closely cropped, chiseled male faces of mannequins, and black - and - white photographs of Nakamura's sculptural works such
as Car Cover (1991), which show two forms that each resemble the shape of a car — one rounded and the other
square - edged.
This modest easel - size
painting is set in the center of a wall that faces you
as you enter the main gallery, not so much to greet you
as seemingly to
square off with you.
In
paintings such
as Knight Series # 5 (Q3 - 76 - # 6), 1976, and Knight Series # 3, 1975, compositions adopt a familiar grid system with construction lines and structural points that provide a delicate but firm framework layered with formulaic vertical strokes in rows filling out each
square.
Revisiting manifestations of the black
square and tracing its evolution over time to a more layered and frayed entity are a new suite of paintings by Ellen Gallagher riffing off of Kazimir Malevich's Black Square on a White Ground (1915), mixed media works by Turiya Magadlela, a bound fabric wall sculpture by Laura Lima, and Jonathas de Andrade's photographic iterations of the black square, which use plastic tarp to reference the movement of land occupation and the square form as a historic reference to capit
square and tracing its evolution over time to a more layered and frayed entity are a new suite of
paintings by Ellen Gallagher riffing off of Kazimir Malevich's Black
Square on a White Ground (1915), mixed media works by Turiya Magadlela, a bound fabric wall sculpture by Laura Lima, and Jonathas de Andrade's photographic iterations of the black square, which use plastic tarp to reference the movement of land occupation and the square form as a historic reference to capit
Square on a White Ground (1915), mixed media works by Turiya Magadlela, a bound fabric wall sculpture by Laura Lima, and Jonathas de Andrade's photographic iterations of the black
square, which use plastic tarp to reference the movement of land occupation and the square form as a historic reference to capit
square, which use plastic tarp to reference the movement of land occupation and the
square form as a historic reference to capit
square form
as a historic reference to capitalism.
The deer sculpture complements an Amish quilt, included in this context
as a reminder that the
square is not a shape unique to abstract
painting.
Painting as Action, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Mexico: Expected / Unexpected, Katzen Arts Centre, Washington D.C., USA Sammen / Together, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim, Norway Marking Time, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (catalogue) Notations: The Cage Effect Today, The Hunter College Art, New York, USA The Spiral and the
Square.
Discussing this series in the context of his «70s output more generally, Stella says, «The effect of doing [the Diderot
paintings] «by the numbers,» so to say, gave me a kind of guide in my work
as a whole... The Concentric
Squares created a pretty high, pretty tough pictorial standard.
In this overdue exhibition, Toroni has cunningly hung twenty - five
square paintings from 1987, each one marked with fourteen orange strokes, at the height of the gallery's mezzanine: in the main space, the canvases are a tick below eye level, while in the upper space they're propped against the wall,
as they rest on the floor.
Albers's connection with Mexico, which he described to Kandinsky
as «the land where abstract art existed for thousands of years», was long and inspiring: in 1935 he produced his first oil abstract
painting after making his first trip there with his wife, Anni, and his first Homage to the
Square while teaching in Mexico City in 1949.
The
paintings are on canvas but
as Prather notes, regarding Two Open
Squares Within a Green Area, 2016, «the artist circumnavigates the openings with lines that clarify that his work is
as much about drawing
as it is about
painting.»
The somber dark palette of his Chapel
paintings recalls Malevich's The Black Suprematic Rectangle, 1915 (better known
as «The Black
Square») where the canvas serves
as a screen upon which the viewer projects his own thoughts and images.
One can think of him
as a sculptural equivalent of Josef Albers in the abstract
painting of Homage to the
Square.
With a rectilinear box placed within a larger rectilinear box, it's reminiscent of Josef Albers's
square - within -
square paintings — Rauschenberg studied with Albers at Black Mountain College — but the work comes across
as self - consciously arty, or a one - liner.
The exhibition traces all the stages of Pape's career, beginning with her
square paintings, reliefs, and blocks, all done between 1954 and 1956, when Pape was a member of Grupo Frente from Rio de Janeiro, which also included Clark and Oiticica, and which initially followed the tenets of concrete art
as outlined by van Doesburg.
A huddle of
squares manifests
as rugs lining floors or
paintings mounting walls, and mingle with the inhabitants,
as if Hans Hoffman is communing with James Ensor.
Celacanto Provoca Maremoto is a mural covering four walls, made up of 184
painted canvas panels — white - and - blue
squares that recreate original tiles the artist photographed, depicting parts of angels, wings, and other decorative motifs,
as well
as the texture of cracked tiles.
As you
square up to the best of the bigger pieces — # 79 and # 116 are the ones to look for — you're plunged into the final moments of a quest narrative with a happy ending, in which Diebenkorn discovers his version of the true grail in Ocean Park, Santa Monica, and American abstract
painting takes another bow.
I myself once compared her
paintings to those of Josef Albers, seeing them
as «fundamentally abstract, the house [being] not so much a house
as the form of a house, a given shape, a certain geometry,» like those endless
squares painted by the ex-Bauhaus colorist.
Within the grids and lines on the canvas are not small
squares of flat, immobile color, but drips and dimples of very active
paint —
as if each
square could also be a composition unto itself.
If any
paint remains on the knife, it may land
as a daub on the most central
square, just to see the results.
The exhibition begins with
paintings based on the
square, the grid and architectural details, such
as The First Vent (1972).
Paintings starting in 2012 build on small
squares of primary colors, with the brightness and opacity of acrylic, but they gain in intensity from orange and a paler blue
as well.