Sentences with phrase «vast canvas»

Alchemical colour effects generated with sprayed paint on vast canvases hint at sublime natural, elemental or celestial events.

Mr. Twombly painted vast canvases marked by smears of paint, half - erased graffiti, random scratches and occasional lines of poetry that evoked a connection between the world of classical mythology and the vibrant street culture of modern life.

The new American painting, by contrast, meant vast canvases by Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, Clyfford Still and others, with a gripping energy and directness, and an emotional impact that, in Rothko's case, reduced some viewers to tears («they are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them,» Rothko explained).

For secrecy, it is draped in vast canvas shrouds that hide everything but its tail, which is that of the Army's familiar Redstone rocket.

Robert Irwin, who began his career in L.A. in the late fifties as a robust abstract expressionist, modeling vast canvases, today confines himself to spare gestures - subtle manipulations of line, scrim, light - specifically suited to the particulars of the site and context of each new project (the University Art Museum itself will play host to such an installation early next year).

These texts share a room with two vast canvases covered in Cornish clay and Avon mud.

At about 4 by 7 feet, «Lucifer» is modest in size compared with vast canvases here by Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, Jules Olitski and James Rosenquist.

With sheer, confident power and force she channels her energy in an allover onslaught on vast canvases, whose scale also reference the abstract expressionist painters.

This epic ten - hour miniseries tracks the intertwined odysseys of three U.S. Marines — Robert Leckie (James Badge Dale), Eugene Sledge (Joseph Mazzello) and John Basilone (Jon Seda)-- across the vast canvas of the Pacific during the Second World War (1939 - 1945).

Once World War II broke out, he enlisted and found himself stranded at sea for 47 days after a plane he was in malfunctioned while above a vast canvas of open water.

Based on the legendary graphic novel, «Jonah Hex» is an epic adventure thriller about one man's personal quest for redemption against the vast canvas of the battle between good and evil.

The odd hybrid of small town soap opera and brutal crime thriller builds slowly — maybe a little too slowly for some — but director Richard Fleischer does an impressive job of weaving the stories and character around each other visually, with characters criss - crossing through scenes and Fleischer panning his camera to across the vast canvas to pick out threads of others stories.

The high stakes of this situation — Will is an African - American boy in the south during the Civil War and an orphan under the control of an outlaw who threatens to kill him if he tries to escape — frame an intimate coming of age story on a vast canvas.

The heroic ten - part adventure tracks the intertwined real - life journeys of three U.S Marines — Robert Leckie (James Badge Dale), Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello) and John Basilone (Jon Seda)-- across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theatre during World War II.

Known to some as a supervillain and to others as one of the most influential politicians of all time, McKay has a vast canvas to paint with here.

In today's video games, the open world is now commonplace - a single, continuous gameplay area that offers a vast canvas for developers to populate, to varying degrees of success.

It also presents a vast canvas for designs and further customization for Forza Motorsport 6 fans.

Perhaps it was the vast canvas expanse of «Rebus» in my peripheral vision that brought to mind Butler's use of fabric as an independent element, or perhaps it was something deeper; like Rauschenberg's Combines, there is something simultaneously serene and mad about these paintings.

Without figurative motifs to distract the viewer's attention, Richter's application of paint onto the vast canvas is a demonstration of reduction at its most convincing.

Pepi's work from that period brought the action from the vast canvases that were popular at the time to the controlled space of a watercolor.

Bulajić's vast canvases have a monumental quality, a feeling of strength that only grows when you know that to her oils she adds limestone, marble dust, even ground granite.

Also on view are vast canvases that have been stitched together from smaller fragments.

A rare Delacroix retrospective at the Louvre features the artist's vast canvases, as well as works less known but just as influential.

Based on small - scale interlocking sculptures, the vast canvas conveys a dynamically colorful expressionism while at the same time remaining architectural and geometric.

As in Blue Symphony here, they are often arranged along the top of the vast canvas or along the perimeter, as if framing the canvas from within.

One composition, O Halme, ihr Halme, O Halme der Nacht has a realistic looking airplane wing protruding from the top of the vast canvas above the blue / yellow / black grass field that grows beneath it.

The art of Anselm Kiefer is thick with history — and thick with paint, which he heaps up on his vast canvases along with ash, sunflowers and words.

In order to work on the vast canvases for the BMW commission, he moves to a larger studio, also enabling him to make larger Colour Charts.

The vast canvas, which takes up an entire wall, is nearly 18 feet by 8 feet of vibrant red paint sliced with five narrow stripes of white, yellow, orange and brown.

It depicts the artist hunched over and isolated, anchored in the in the centre of the vast canvas.

Turning away from the gesture - laden, textured surfaces that typified much of Abstract Expressionist painting, Gamma Kappa displays colors flowing effortlessly, breathing life literally into and across this vast canvas.

Vast canvases are detailed with intimate physical surprises, and smaller pictures pack larger - than - life graphic punch.

In April Monet returned to Chailly intending to paint a vast canvas, a Dejeuner sur l' herbe «in the spirit of Manet, but actually painted out of doors».

This room also houses a vast canvas by Lee Krasner, but she gets little more than a cursory mention in the wall text — a footnote in Pollock's tragic story.

A commission for a mural from Peggy Guggenheim had spurred Pollock to create the large - scale works that would define his career, and just as for Pollock, Ayres» mural commission alerted her to the power of the vast canvas.

Twombly made the large - scale work, Treatise on the Veil (Second Version) in the same year, as a vast canvas painting of nearly 33 feet (10 metres).

It will not be long before lawyers and courts use this medium to conduct court proceedings and hearings, and Web 2.0 will provide a vast canvas for all to paint on.