Sentences with phrase «to stain the canvas»

This six part work involved several hundred feet of paint stained canvas, and was commissioned for the exterior walls of two adjacent wings of the museum.

Measuring 10 feet high by 75 feet long, the vivid, color - stained canvas hangs suspended from the ceiling.

The Newport Street exhibition is the first major show since Hoyland's death in 2011 and will reaffirm his status as an important and innovative force within international abstraction, providing new insights into the way in which his work evolved from the huge colour - stained canvases of the 1960s, through the textured surfaces of the 1970s to the more spatially complex paintings of the early 1980s.

He was one of the first to use the technique of staining the canvas with thinned paints and of deploying his colours in concentric rings and parallels, shaped and proportioned in relation to the shape of the canvas.

This important exhibition will feature more than twenty paintings from various periods of his forty year career: rare «early spray» paintings from the late 1960s, saturated stained canvases from the 1970s, dizzying spray ovals from the 1980s, pulsating orbs from the 1990s, and rhythmic calligraphic swirls from his last decade.

The show presents over 30 paintings spanning 40 years including rare «early spray» paintings from the late 1960s, saturated stained canvases from the 1970s, dizzying spray ovals from the 1980s, pulsating orbs from the 1990s, and rhythmic calligraphic swirls from his last decade.

In 1952, he and Noland visited painter Helen Frankenthaler and were inspired by the luminous abstract works she created through staining the canvas rather than through gestural brushstrokes.

They also look to back color - field painting, when stained canvas for many critics came fraught with lightness and excess.

With a unique pouring technique, Morris Louis achieved his intensely vivid hues by staining his canvases with Magna, a newly developed form of synthetic acrylic resin which fully penetrated the fabric and completely covered the fibers of his canvas to build glowing fields of voluminous color.

He is most widely known for the large color stained canvases he draped and suspended from walls and ceilings during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The exhibition will comprise a focused selection of large - scale paintings by these artists from the late - 50s to the early - 70s, covering the first wave of stained canvas techniques that would come to be referred to as «Color Field.»

Richter's stark, lovely and somewhat eerily tinted photographs are reminiscent of stained canvas in abstract color field paintings, which have a fresh narrative viewpoint; in this instance, flowers that may have been influenced by early darkroom experiments by Man Ray.

Greg Goldberg approaches stained canvas with thin layers of color, while Holton Rower goes for actual pours, sometimes dried on a curved or vibrating surface.

Instead of resting on top of the canvas, the paint in this image stained the canvas — a significant feat in an era when avant - garde artists were fascinated with the flatness of painting.

Sometimes, as in Quid, it's a film that stains the canvas lightly so that it seems to glow.

Still, stained canvas today has a pricy and public side as well.

Internationally recognized as the foremost contemporary African - American Color Field painter, Gilliam is widely known for his large, color - stained canvases which he drapes and suspends from ceilings and / or walls and thick «raked» canvases.

Effectively staining the canvas with paint, the technique subverted the figure - ground relationship associated with painting by blurring the boundary between form and surface altogether.

Mary Weatherford lets stained canvas hang loose beneath neon, and Julia Dault frees it from the wall with her own recourse to artificial leather.

Almost instantaneously, there was a realization that Schnabel and Salle's work was coming out of Color Field painting — they used stained canvases, but they placed images on top.

In salon - style, floor - to - ceiling hangings you will find every conceivable kind of two - dimensional creativity: Minimalist monochromes; Color Field stained canvases; finely and loosely grained patterning; cartoon allegories and sensitively observed still lifes.

For Clement Greenberg, a chief detractor who had once been a supporter, more promising than de Kooning's followers were color - field painters like Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis, whose stained canvases retained something of the abstract expressionist's spontaneity without the physical trace of the touch.

The artist then removes a section of this layer using turpentine to reveal the constituent colours beneath, and the residue of this process stains the canvas with veils of pigment.

Taking this pictorial structure as a starting point, Vasell has fashioned paintings that are made up of disparate elements collaged onto stained canvases.

While abroad, he discovered the effects of staining a canvas as opposed to painting on it — color by flow instead of application.

(3) From 1952 onward, Frankenthaler would regularly stain her canvases multiple times to achieve spatially complex, transparent layers.

What counted in a Morris Louis painting, for example, was the way the colours stained the canvas, confirming its flatness while seeming to levitate above it.

The selection of works on display features vibrantly stained canvases that create an illusion of 3D structures floating in space.

Mokha Laget In Her First Solo Exhibition with David Richard Gallery Presents New Shaped and Colorful Stained Canvases That Create Illusions of Three - Dimensional Structures Floating In Space

Thinking she had stained the canvases too strongly, Frankenthaler would place them face down on her wood - paneled studio floor overnight.

Ever the innovator, he took his color - stained canvases off of the stretcher in the late 1960s and presented them in radical new ways: draped across walls and hung from the ceiling in generous, folding layers.

Abandoning several pieces of alabaster in a river and checking their state years later; allowing swallows to stain a canvas during their migration process; or letting a cow create a sculpture are a few of the experiments that Moliné allows Nature to conduct.

New and indeed remarkable was Frankenthaler's application of her oil medium, which she thinned to the consistency of watercolor so that it would soak into and stain the canvas rather than accumulate on its surface.

Today many of her oil paint stained canvases are deteriorating.

Kordansky had been a fan of Gilliam's radically innovative, unstretched, stained canvases for years, and had shared his enthusiasm with Rashid Johnson when they first met in 2009.

This important exhibition will feature more than twenty paintings from various periods of his forty year career: rare «early spray» paintings from the late 1960s, saturated stained canvases from the 1970s, dizzying spray ovals from the 1980s, pulsating orbs from the 19...

In a gallery devoted to abstraction, a monumental, prismatic swath of stained canvas hangs in draped folds attached directly to an entire wall.

Using a technique that stained canvases with liquid color, it was a counterpoint to the aggressive brushwork of the then dominant style of Abstract Expressionism.

As an artist who has been variously described as «the new Turner» and «Europe's answer to Mark Rothko», the show will reaffirm Hoyland's status as an important and innovative force within international abstraction and provide new insights into the way in which Hoyland's work evolved from the huge colour - stained canvases of the 1960s, through the textured surfaces of the 1970s to the more spatially complex paintings of the 1980s.

In his recent work, Jones» poured and stained canvases have absorbed the space, light, and color of his coastal surroundings.

Working with poured paint, or staining the canvas, how do you decide what will be poured vs. what will be more controlled by your hand?

His latest exhibition «Powder of Light currently on at Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York, combines acrylic, ink and spray paint on a background texture of tea - stained canvas.

The ground which these lines inhabit has been created by soiling and staining a canvas, before it is stretched, while simultaneously folding, crumpling and otherwise abusing it.

Gorky's stained canvas and dream landscapes introduce a debt to Surrealism as well.

Influenced by abstract expressionism, Gilliam experimented with methods of applying pigment, often pouring paint, staining canvases, and folding them while still wet.

Whether he is working with hard - edged forms, staining canvas or demonstrating his gestural chops, Brischler evinces amazing fluency with a range of techniques.

An unprimed surface is typically not treated with gesso or any other form of sizing, which in turn allows for the paint to pool and stain the canvas.

Like the stained canvas of Helen Frankenthaler, he challenges myths of Modernism, spontaneity, and an artist in immediate touch with himself and nature.

Not every stained canvas out there is a doorway to perception.