Sentences with phrase «standing over a canvas»

These images of Vicious resonate with the photographs of Pollock buried beneath them, wherein Pollock is (partially) seen either standing over a canvas that has been spread out on the studio floor, hand extended with loaded brush — a performative gestural flourish is frozen in time — or else he is seen sitting or even lying down with cigarette in hand, his body seemingly relaxed in a post-creation, almost post-coital state of exhaustion.

As Hans Namuth's dramatic series of photographs and the film of Pollock at work demonstrated, he painted by standing over a canvas and letting paint drip on it from above until he had achieved the rhythmic movements, varied densities and textures desired.

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He told him his uncle Ed Alison had gone up to the preacher after the funeral was said and shook his hand, the two of them standing there holding onto their hats and leaning thirty degrees into the wind like vaudeville comics while the canvas flapped and raged about them and the funeral attendants raced over the grounds after the lawnchairs, and he'd leaned into the preacher's face and screamed at him that it was a good thing they'd held the burial that morning because the way it was making up this thing could turn off into a real blow before the day was out.

Similarly, with the new abstract paintings, many of which stand over 8 feet tall, he begins at eye level, only later mounting a stool to reach the top of the canvas.

Chung's Untitled 005, a large painting of acrylic and frottage on hanji paper (traditionally used in Korean calligraphy) collaged onto canvas, stands over 1.5 meters tall and 1.2 meters wide.

I enter the K.O.S. studio in Chelsea to find a sunlit space crowded with giant canvases, tables covered with books (Darwin's Origin of Species, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, H.G. Wells's The Time Machine), ladders with people reaching out to work at the top of the canvas, computers, music blaring, and several individuals kneeling and standing as they fill in and stamp, with various levels of pressure, hand stamps of tiny branches over a canvas covered in a grid of book pages.

You had to stand in front of the blank canvas, you couldn't know in advance that there was going to be a yellow shape over there.

The gallery describes the «calorific» (to do with calorie consumption and expenditure) tray paintings of silver nitrate and epoxy ink on canvas, as representative of an individuals energy transfer over a period of one second of activity such as standing or lying down.

In an interest to reveal the evolutionary constitution of his algorithmic programs, IDEAS ARE EXECUTIONS features an extracted linear sequence of nearly 20 digitally printed canvases, each standing over 6 feet tall.

Smiling conspiratorially from the canvas, the man in Bound Over to Keep the Faith stands testament to paint's unique ability to expand the world we think we know into myriad new and unseen places.

From trips to Mexico: wool rug on floor, everything on walls but large canvas, all pillows Vintage: pots on coffee table, vases on white shelving, blanket on sofa, fabric used as curtains, stereo cabinet used as TV stand Sectional sofa: Furniture Maison Art over sofa: Madame Clamour by Villa Betula Pendant light: Wunderkammer Coffee table: built by my husband Plant pot: Ikea Table lamp: semi - built / semi-restored by a friend Walls: Farrow & Ball Inchyra Blue (hallway wallpaper = Tourbillon) Featuring 3 of the herd: Phoebe, Mimin and Felix

I used the white coffee table as a TV stand and above it is an old canvas that I painted over in colors I pulled from the room.