Sentences with phrase «vast canvases by»

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).

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The other major series are «Florals,» whose hues seem to bud from a central point; the self - explanatory «Stripes,» prefiguring late -»60s minimalism; and the «Unfurleds,» in which vast expanses of blank canvas are framed by rivulets of color.

She is known for her vast and vivid improvised painted canvases, which in her early career were inspired by Jackson Pollock.

The exhibition then shifts gear to consider «East Coast Abstraction», where we find Bowling's vast Middle Passage alongside canvases by Sam Gilliam, Jack Whitten and William T. Williams.

The choice of scale is self - confident, as with the domestic size canvases by Varda Caivano that do not need to be monumental to make their powerful visual arguments, or the vast, unstretched linen that Jessica Warboys paints on the seashore.

Color Field painting, which emerged in the United States in the 1950s, is characterized by pouring, staining, spraying or painting thinned paint onto raw canvas to create vast chromatic expanses.

French painter, Stéphane Joannes» large oil on canvas paintings depict solitary cargo ships surrounded by the vast sky and water.

Kenneth Noland, Following Sea, 1974 Acrylic on canvas, 98 x 98 inches February 29 — May 26, 2008 Color field painting, which emerged in the United States in the 1950s, is characterized by pouring, staining, or spraying thinned paint onto raw canvas, creating vast chromatic expanses.

This exhibition presented a vast array of Wu's output: cartoon drawings for newspapers, book cover designs, sketches and portrait paintings made during his five years of study in Paris; poetry, calligraphy, watercolour paintings and oils on canvas, mostly arranged chronologically and organized by media.

Her poetic canvases, vast semi-abstractions in which mosaiclike patches of color were linked by lines into labyrinthine compositions, interested artists of the American Abstract Expressionist school, who first saw her work in New York in 1946.

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.

Taking vast, remote landscapes and the ephemeral conditions of nature as their sculptural canvas, these and other artists staged their own protest by rejecting traditional sculptural forms and practices, rigid modernist theory and the commercial confines of the museum - and - gallery system to create frequently massive land art works that heightened awareness of our relationship with the earth and challenged accepted definitions of art.

A vast and vertiginous painting by Robert Mangold at Armand Bartos of New York offer the illusion that the wall is falling away — shaped canvas and elliptical calligraphy on a level that make it special in Mangold's oeuvre.

By suspending a stretcherless, often vast length of painted canvas from the walls or ceiling of an exhibition space, Gilliam transformed both his medium and the contexts in which it was viewed.