She soon began to
use shaped canvases.
He has also been credited as one of the first artists to
use shaped canvases.
However they use a wider range of colors, and are his first works
using shaped canvases (canvases in a shape other than the traditional rectangle or square), often being in L, N, U or T - shapes.
In these years, Valledor developed his minimalist style, began
using shaped canvases, and exhibited along side Sol LeWitt, Robert Smithson, and Donald Judd, among others.
Not exact matches
I had seen several ways of
using buttons to create a frames
canvas for Christmas, so I played around and made this heart
shaped creation.
Primer has so many
uses - it evens out your skin's texture, provides a bare
canvas for applying makeup and keeps your makeup looking in tip - top
shape for hours.
Back in the days when Mel Ramos could paint Chiquita Banana pinups, Tom Wesselmann could sex up his still lifes by putting sunburned nudes with pubic hair into them, and Allen Jones could obnoxiously
use a lifelike playmate on her knees as a coffee table, Marjorie Strider was making
shaped canvases featuring 3 - D breasts that were smartly violating the picture plane as if to one - up the men, who never noticed.
In the photography series, Vegetable
Canvas, the duo delicately treats vegetables as real
canvases,
using colour as an expression of different forms and
shapes.
Each
canvas began with a grounding field of fluorescent pink, down which Howard methodically dragged strips of deep Alizarin Crimson oil paint,
using a T - square to
shape the precise edges.
Intricately detailed works, with dynamic and organic
shapes spiraling across the
canvas, each painting is mixed media, combining the artist's
use of plastics (an ironic and intentional nod to the subject matter) with paint and digital effects.
An iconic Minimalist, Robert Mangold is a past master at
using colors and forms in unexpected ways, fusing differently
shaped canvases and drawn
shapes to create new, formalist structures.
It present works in different media and formats that
used found objects and geometric
shapes, before she began making her visionary pencilled grids on large, square
canvases.
She moved to New York in 1967 and quickly gained recognition among a generation of painters, though her
use of cartoony imagery and
shaped canvases was unlike any of her contemporaries.
The individual
canvases of various trapezoid and cross
shapes are delicately stretched
using a deceptively simple combination of electrician's ties, strings and metal rods.
In SHARAKU (date unknown), for instance, the length of the title and range of letters
used have resulted in one of the more colorful paintings in the show, with multiple different
shapes and hues dancing across the
canvas.
In 1960, he began introducing color into his work and
using unconventionally
shaped canvases to complement his compositions.
Stella, surely the university's best - known contribution to the art world,
uses notches in opposite corners to
shape the
canvas and, by extension, its successive stripes.
Taking up the industrial design principle that form should follow function, Stella began to
use aluminium and copper to spatially render his paintings» compositional geometry as the very
shape of their
canvases.
His confederate, El Lissitzky, on the other hand, painted lively compositions with
shapes that often seem to dance on the
canvas,
using precise balances of
shapes and colors to tell spatial stories — for instance, suggesting that a static
shape is actually in the process of falling, or rising — or even convey political propaganda.
Thomas Downing
used dots as his primary geometric
shape to investigate color's capacity to extend visually beyond the
canvas.
Simultaneously physical and disembodied, the
shaped and stacked
canvases of Joe Bradley and Wendy White make
use of the tension between surface and edge, fullness and emptiness.
Both works are constructed with rhythmic, overlapping
shaped canvas planes, strings and struts,
using an abstracted lexicon of forms derived from crosses, diamonds, zigzags and arcs.
He still
uses curves, like Stella's Protractors or the ovals of Ed Clark, an African American often credited with the first
shaped canvases in the 1950s.
In these works, Stella recalls several of his most marked and insurgent artistic elements; the
shaped canvas, the absence of color, the
use of household paints, mysterious geometry and highly ambiguous titles.
Completely transforming painting's literal form, artists such as Frank Stella and Kenneth Noland began to
use oddly
shaped and asymmetrical
canvases.
Jack creates these
shapes by
using caustic chemicals (paint stripper and bleach) that removes the paint from the surface of the
canvas raising issues of defacement and destruction.?
An early proponent of
shaped canvases in the 50s, Ed Clark began
using a large push - broom to push paint across the surface of the
canvas in the 60s, creating subtly blended and thickly textured stripes of paint such as those in Yucatan Beige (1976), in which the stripes traverse beyond the central ellipse.
It cares too much for the wall to be quite sculpture or installation either, and its
use of materials as her elements of color and composition look back to
shaped canvas as well.
KT: The pixelation, the cloaking and slashing of the imagery, the
use of cut and
shaped canvases — all speaks to deterioration or fragmentation of memory and symbolism.
Blinn Jacobs describes her work in a recent statement as being a dialogue between polygonal «
shaped»
canvases and the
use of «painterliness» in regard to the interaction of color.
Wesselmann
used collage, assemblage and
shaped canvases to usher in a new vocabulary of painting.
The catalogue notes that and six other of his paintings in this series alter «the
shape of the
canvas, and reiterates that lengthened, zigzagged
shape with the
use of pencil - thin lines throughout.»
Rather than thinking of them in terms of Minimalism, she remembers, he told her they were «about the discomfort he felt in figuring out how two colors can rest next to each other on a
canvas, and solving it in the most explicit way possible»:
using colored vinyl as a readymade material, stretching it into rectilinear
shapes, and composing based on color and formal relationships.5
Nieto
uses Photoshop to digitally deconstruct comic book pages down to basic
shapes and forms and
uses those
shapes to compose his
canvases.
Part texture (collage, oil on
canvas, pastel on paper) and part flat surface, her
use of line with geometric
shapes in the horizontally moving base juxtaposed against the lines evaporating upwards makes for an effective image, although again subtle.
The
use of a dark and predominantly gray color scheme by artists including Michael Rey, Laeh Glenn, and Ron Gorchov, coupled with an exploration of the
canvas's
shape and depth, becomes a consistent and unifying element among these works in the main gallery.
Inside these baroque forms are uniformly sized blocks, each square its own pure color, sometimes only subtly distinguished from neighboring colors... Gordon's
shapes are carefully molded in heavy impasto paint with a palette knife, a bas - relief in color that pops off the
canvas... [Diamond]
uses nature - based drawings to create forms that at first glance resemble figures but after closer study escape into the realm of the imagination.
Rather than painting thickly with opaque paint, Frankenthaler
used oil and then later, acrylic paint, thinly like watercolor, pouring it onto raw
canvas and letting it soak and stain the
canvas, flowing into
shapes of flat translucent color.
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.
For instance, in his 1983 - 1984 exhibition at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York, titled Frame Paintings, the artist
used canvases without centers — creating, as the name of the collection implies — paintings that were
shaped like frames.
She counts the linoleum, the velvet and the wax paintings as fantastic bodies of early work and also rates the
shaped canvases, the pink paintings he recently made in Mexico as well as paintings that
use words.
From her large - scale murals to works on
canvas, Maya Hayuk
uses bold, explosive colors that often double and refract abstract
shapes in proportioned patterns that literally vibrate off the
canvas and walls.
In 1968 I had been doing my own aggressively
shaped canvases which projected from 2D to 3D, influenced not by Noland but by Richard Smith... of whom I wrote — «The final step in the development of what are now amongst the best paintings being made, was the increasing
use of three dimensional frontal depth perspective, which allowed the colour to take its place in the surface, which could be
shaped and bent in perspective and geometry.
Hammons also included work by Joan Mitchell, Yayoi Kusama, who also showed at Brata, and Donald Judd, who organized a show for Clark in his loft in 1971, perhaps because he recognized that Clark was an early experimenter with
shaped canvases (or «specific objects»), which preceded Frank Stella's
use of
shaped supports.
Using hard - edged geometric forms and
shaped canvases, DeLap was concerned with act of perception — key to the light and space movement — and was close friends with a number those artists, especially Craig Kauffman.
By
using discarded common materials alongside the standards of paint,
canvas, and stretcher, Vasell's new work performs another
shape - shifting coup.
If Piero Manzoni chose as favorite materials as kaolin and cotton for its famous «Achromes,» Castellani and Agostino Bonalumi embarked on a rigorous course of study and analysis of the possibilities provided dall» estroflessione of the
canvas through the
use of nails, ribs and
shapes of wood and metal inserted behind the
canvas.
His paintings similarly strive to produce rich sensory experiences, but through the
use of just the colour red: molten red wax streams down the
canvas, dripping and congealing to create
shapes evocative of human orifices.
The artist also
used the pointillism method, a technique developed by impressionist artist George Seurat and Paul Signa.From afar your eyes would only notice a composition of perfectly aligned contrasting
shapes on
canvas, but once up close you will see the different textures and hidden colors you weren't aware of.
In «New Geometries,» one of Gibson's
shaped canvas paintings
uses the armature of an old ironing board multivalent in meaning: a readymade,
shaped canvas; an homage to his grandmother who was a meticulous housekeeper; and the transformation of a domestic object into a power object — a shield.