Stella, for example, would have
started painting shaped canvases at about the same time, 1960.
When did
you start painting those shaped canvases?
Not exact matches
The
shape starts out white at its peak, and gradually the
paint takes on a light lavender hue as the base of the triangle slowly widens.
To begin
painting your necklace in a «pinwheel» type fashion,
start with a simple triangle
shape.
I'll generally
start with a palette or
shape in mind and then the
painting takes on its own life from there.
Although each course has to have a
starting post and ending flagpole, everything that goes between is up to you;
paint your platforms in whichever
shape you want, choose from six different themes — from ground, to underwater, to the hellish castle themes — and let your imagination go wild, spicing it up with custom sound effects and anything else that might make sense.
I have recently
started a series of large scale rubbings on
shaped paper — circle, arch, ovals — they are strongly related to my recent
paintings, but are monochromatic — greys and blacks — and shift between being voids and objects.
Or you can see it as a kind of «motif» or configuration that runs from right to left, horizontally across the centre of the
painting,
starting at the right - hand slope, running across the strong green horizontal bands, and ending in the mid-left hand -
shaped fanning - out.
He defines systems in his work as «a way of communicating an intelligible idea in terms of
shapes colours and forms, or an organisation principle that I predetermine and allow to run to see what the outcomes will be...» In his
painting here, Triangles within a Dodecagon, he takes the regular twelve sided
shape as its
starting place and bases an equilateral triangle between two of the vertices, or along one of the sides.
With the exception of the few black
shapes that made their appearance at the
start and the end of her
painting life, Martin's palette is airy and light — neither heavy nor dark — and it's no stretch to associate this with the classicism she espoused or with the ideas of perfection and joy and innocence, and so on, which held her rapt.
The
paintings are not portraits of specific people, but the artist often uses the same facial
shapes and motifs as a
starting point for painterly exploration, such as in Shared Borders and Shared Space.
Although these painters
started out
painting in what was called an objective style, deploying abstract
shapes in large space, they soon migrated to using the physical world and representative subjects to experiment with
shape, color, texture and temperature in their
painting.
He
starts each
painting with a layer of abstract sharpie drawings, then
paints white
shapes over the whole thing, and then adds in a full background of cities and scenes.
Doing those
paintings was a big help in the transition because I was working from the
shape of the piece of marble, a found
shape, and as a result, I
started using diagonals.
Ms. Mehretu, who received her M.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1997, has always layered her canvases with diagrams and information as a
starting point: architectural plans of arenas or fortified cities underpin her small dashes and
shapes that move in swarms across her early
paintings.
They hark back to a time when flatness was abstract
painting's primary goal, and the physical facts of the medium were
starting to be endlessly parsed — beginning with
shaped canvases — in a process that continues today.
All the
paintings feature repeating bands or stripes of a single color applied to canvases that
start out rectangular and end up emphatically
shaped, resembling big letters.
Guérin works on multiple
paintings and drawings at once,
starting with a single scheme or
shape that she repeats across different compositions, then allowing her response to each work to develop independently.
Carmen Herrera, now at 102, sold her first
painting at the age of 89, although her
paintings of striking colors and geometric
shapes have been at the center of her life since she
started studying drawing at Marymount School in Paris in 1929.
Asked about the interaction between the image and support edge, Phillips comments: «I like that the image itself is a form... as you
start to make the
painting, you're given the rectangle, but that it doesn't necessarily have to live withing that arbitrary
shape.
A pivotal gesture for Baldessari — he says it marks when he stopped being a painter and
started to follow Duchamp's lead — was the 1970 Cremation Project, in which he burnt all the abstract
paintings he had made between 1955 and 1963 and put the ashes into a book -
shaped casket.
In 1974, he
started working with
shaped stretchers and introduced the element of line into his
paintings.
Reducing her formal vocabulary to its essential elements, Herrera
started creating
paintings in which boldly coloured, sharply defined geometric
shapes predominated, and she exhibited this new work through the salon in 1949 — 52.
I
start a
painting with a vague thought — it could be based on my everyday experience, or something else altogether — and from there a story begins to take
shape.
At a very early stage he
starts adding various materials to the ground of his
paintings and they have various functions; they change the surface, but also influence the composition, undermining the more literal
shapes and
painted forms, or are used to reinforce the more formal linear structure.
The installation represented a room filled with
shaped canvases, including his Angular and Bi-angolari series he
started working on during that same decade, all
painted with pristine white only.
Charles
starts his
paintings with anything at all, simple
painted shapes of animals and other images, or collaged materials of all sorts and big fat spills of
paint, which liver when dry, providing a complex, wrinkled terrain that he then covers with tiny lines and dots of sign - painter's enamel, squeezed from little bottles.
Soon after, Frank Stella
started the construction of his
Shaped - canvas,
paintings of singular and original forms that challenged traditional canons.
Starting with simple geometric
shapes and slowly evolving into slightly more representational
paintings to abstracted still lifes, the repetition of color and
shapes starts to develop an internal dialogue.
Helen Frankenthaler was one of the first artists to use the stain
painting technique, pouring the
paint mixture directly onto the unprimed canvas and
painting shapes as they stained, Morris Louis
started soaking his canvases and eliminating brushes completely from his practice, and several other artist
started experimenting with spray
painting and the use of stripes.
A 1995 exhibition in New York, Kenneth Noland at Leo Castelli, covered 35 years of Noland's work,
starting with two target
paintings from 1960 and ending with
paintings from his Flare and Flow series of the 1990s, multipanel
paintings with capricious curved
shapes, sometimes separated by strips of colored Plexiglas.
As soon as I left Yale I
started experimenting with more referential
shapes, and with putting imagistic elements into
paintings that were still pretty abstract.
Eventually, he
started to form the clumps into flower
shapes and spray
paint them silver, which on the canvas created the illusion of working with tin foil.
When he
started painting, he was forced to work solely with his left arm, yet despite his handicap, he always worked alone, obsessively piling lines and
shapes of various densities on his canvases by himself.
JR: I
start these new
paintings with watercolor sketches from photographs of the park, and I try to figure out patterns and
shapes.
The square is the most standard
shape for any
painting and white the most neutral color and thus the
starting and ending point of his investigations.
She
started simply at first, tilting her compositions as in
paintings like «Falling,» 1976, and «Searchin»,» 1976 - 77, but as Murray became more and more obsessed with the «edges» of her
paintings, she began to deliberately design the canvases in a specific
shape such as in works like «Harry,» 1976, and «Desire,» 1976.
Through simple gestures of pouring and removing
paint, gravity
shapes the lines and forms that
start to resemble organic elements.
And then, by sheer chance, the map
shapes appeared whilst I was in Hotel Chelsea so I
started painting maps of South America and Guyana, and then I decided that I would do the entire flat map as a motif to work with.
And in viewing the
painting Cerberus I
start to think that the central white
shape might resemble a head of the dreaded creature, and then to wonder what might be guarded, i.e prevented from getting out of the
painting into the external world, or vice versa.
For at least 10 years I did only white
paintings,
starting with reduced, minimal,
shaped canvases.
In every one of these
paintings I
start by filling up the surface with marks and then I look at it and find some
shapes, and then it just
starts taking off and becoming it's own life force.
It wasn't in bad
shape, a little beat up, but I needed the color to be darker to
start with, so I used a mix of Reclaim Mocha and Reclaim Licorice, a
paint we carry that is usually rolled on, but sometime I use it as a «
paint stain» --
The room is
starting to take
shape once more!There's still a lot left to do, like
painting and tiling, but it should
start moving more quickly at this point.
They
started with antique wood chairs, all different
shapes and styles, and then
painted each one the same color, so at first glance they look like a matched set, until you go to sit down at the table, you notice that they are all very different from each other.
No, I didn't sand because the piece was in pretty good
shape, but if you have peeling
paint to
start with, you'll want to sand it first.