Sentences with phrase «very shape of their canvases»

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.

Not exact matches

On view for the very first time will be Jennifer Bartlett's large - scale shaped canvas Moth (2001), an important work from a little - known period of production for the artist.

Other histories are bubbling up, too, like the drawings of Josef Albers, the shaped canvases of Charles Hinman, and the very idea of painting's «forever now.»

However, this camera, while recognisable as a very specific object, is pieced together from terracotta shapes reminiscent of children's building blocks, inviting other forms to materialise on the canvas.

Joanna Pousette - Dart and Ron Gorchov are making very different kinds of painings, but I've put them together here because their canvases are shaped and it's a place to start a conversation about the two artists.

I've been using a very pared down vocabulary of simple shapes and letters drawn or typed in Microsoft Word, then printed on top of these pages from catalogues, magazines, posters - and even blank canvas.

One of the problems is that when works like Heilmanns receive praise for their wit and ingenuity, it downgrades the expectations and ambitions of other abstract artists; so that now, any number of painters think that slapping a few lines and shapes around on a canvas, in a manner that vaguely represents something or other — place, memory, feeling, whatever — constitutes an abstract painting, in which it is the very ambiguity of the work which constituting the «abstract» bit.

This show is maybe the next step of my former solo exhibition this year in Rome at Federica Schiavo Gallery, where I developed a few shaped canvases related to the very challenging architecture of the space.