Sharing two outfits today inspired by
a very small canvas =) The itty - bitty space on our hands can make a large impact.
Not exact matches
They just started adding
canvas prints but the fee to the artist is
very small so I haven't used that.
Very small pictures, if painted by gifted artists and installed in an adequate version of what Dave Hickey once dubbed a «clean, well - lighted place,» can produce exhibitions just as ambitious and adventurous as larger - scale projects... these
canvases address significant issues related to their respective genres while averaging little more than a square foot apiece.»
Much of this relates to Richter's exploration of the relationships between painting and photography, and only a
very small proportion of the work features brush on
canvas.
MARLèNE MOCQUET: RECENT PAINTINGS This young French painter presents
small, vaporous, psychologically charged
canvases — occupied by hapless, mostly hybrid beings — that might be called illustrational, not the least for the way their titles narrate
very specific events.
Conversely, I once saw a
very small painting by Jake Berthot, a pocket - book - size picture that was a complex layering of different greys with some wonderful reds breaking through the field and also at the edges of the
canvas — it seemed like I was looking at something almost infinite in its dimensions.
Within the grids and lines on the
canvas are not
small squares of flat, immobile color, but drips and dimples of
very active paint — as if each square could also be a composition unto itself.
By gluing thousands
small pieces of
very delicate paper on the
canvas one by one, she almost creates an expression that is close to three - dimensional.
The
smaller canvases portray animals alone in clean, dark voids
very different from their natural habitats.
His first London show also includes a room in which
very much
smaller paintings, made on 81 acetate slides, are projected on a scale far longer than the works on
canvas in a 13.30 minute loop.
Among the works that did well were Lot 16, a charming
small sculpture, one of three examples down in 1945 - 6, by David Smith, shown above, that sold for $ 220,000 (not including the buyer's premium) and had had a high estimate of $ 150,000; Lot 5, «Atantolone,» a gloss household paint on
canvas of colored dots on a white field that sold for $ 170,000 (not including the buyer's premium), well over its high estimate of $ 120,000; Lot 14, a large 1943 painted wood and wire sculpture, «Constellation,» by Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) that sold for $ 1,982,500 (including the buyer's premium), more than double its high estimate, and Lot 24, a larger Calder sculpture, «Trepied,» that sold near its low estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 20, a large and
very interesting and abstract but not
very colorful 1953 Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992), «Two Figures at a Window,» that sold above its $ 1.2 million high estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 27, «Tour III» by Brice Marden (b. 1938) that sold within its estimates for $ 1,487,500 (including the buyer's premium), tying the artist's record; Lot 41, «Grillo,» by Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) that sold for $ 1,102,500 (including the buyer's premium), also within its pre-sale estimates; and Lot 31, «Vierwaldstätte See,» a large black and white 1969 landscape by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) that sold for $ 1,047,500 near its low estimate of $ 1 million.
Like the discreet drawing by Ilya Smirnov, «No Title Provided», placed above the radiator, or the
small consumed candles on
canvases by Josip Nosovel in the corner, Il Futuro era bellissimo per noi triggers a short - circuit mixing low and high culture, dominant historical narratives and esoterica, pop culture and cheap technology — temporalities, language, tone — in a moment that is both sentimental in mood and
very dark in humour.
I work on multiple pieces at a time, with
canvases ranging in size from
very large to
very small.
There were eight big and nine medium - size dark paintings in Galerie Max Hetzler's Bleibtreustraße location, along with one
very large and colorful
canvas, a
small work on paper executed in colored pencil and crayon, and an artist's book.
Towards the bottom left of the
canvas, Cohen has left a
very small square of the white ground showing, which reads clearly as a door or an opening out of the forest.
Working
very small, on raw
canvas, Ms. Mocquet treads lightly on a twisting trail that winds from Redon to August Strindberg, then to Miró, Klee and Tanguy, and ends up near Sempé, Edward Koren and Saul Steinberg.
At the time, Zurier was making
very simple, bold patterns — a few rough brush strokes — on
small canvases.