Sentences with phrase «square piece of canvas»

But this season's museum shows and last season's auction results aren't enough to justify (for most people, at least), spending more than a million dollars on a square piece of canvas.

Not exact matches

I think you ask yourself, «What can I do on a large square canvas, or on a small piece of paper that might be interesting?»

The monochromatic Yellow Piece (1966), a canvas with two of its corners bending into curves, relies on the viewer's reading of it as an incomplete square for it to work.

Artist Statement on DEEPHORIZON: «The supreme discipline of art — oil painting — is back with a vengeance — in the form of an oil painting on a 80.000 square miles ocean canvas with 32 million litres of oil — a unique piece of art... It has been 13 days since a BP oil and gas exploration well blew out, setting fire to the drilling rig, which sank, killing 11 people.

Partegàs's pieces are molded by pouring slightly tinted resin onto actual squares of canvas, so that the creases are registered as the material hardens, to form what looks like the surface of the Earth seen from an airplane or the waves of a colorless ocean.

Sol LeWitt cleanly tears a piece of white paper into stark geometric sections in R115, 1973, generating an elegant composition with a simple gesture, while Robert Ryman defamiliarizes the monochrome in Untitled, 1967, a white - painted canvas square affixed directly to the white wall with masking tape.

Mangold became known for his use of shaped canvases, often creating works of art that weren't merely square, but that incorporated the shape of the piece in order to enhance the painting.

They include two of Josef Albers's signature nested squares, a 1998 piece by Robert Rauschenberg, and a 1966 canvas by Alma Thomas, the first African - American woman artist represented in the White House.

The composition mirrors the squaring effect of their aluminum companions, but unlike the panels that are assembled after painting, these pieces are painted in sections on the same canvas surface.

People were paid $ 20 a piece — in the form of a number check drawn by the artist — to sit at one of several tables and, using materials provided, paint a black, eight - inch - diameter dot on a white, 12 - inch square canvas.