Sentences with phrase «weave of the canvas»

«At times... they present the illusion of an almost corrugated surface,» he explained, «until the visible weave of the canvas tautens it, pulling out its creases, as it were.
«Far from harmonizing the individual stripes by colour, Louis usually vibrates them, creating an illusion of painterliness in their optical flicker... [at times] they present the illusion of an almost corrugated surface, until the visible weave of the canvas tautens it, pulling out its creases» (J. Elderfield, Morris Louis, exh.
I try to preserve a portion of my edges with the raw weave of the canvas as a reminder of the painting's support system, the rest of the sides are a section cut of the painting itself, showing the layers and fragments of what is happening on the surface.
The ever - present coarse weave of the canvas absorbed Chase's thin washes of paint, resulting in a blurred image.
Martin's touch is most apparent in the way she handles graphite, ruling out pencil lines that all but imperceptibly stutter across the weave of the canvas or catch on the tooth of a sheet of paper.
To do that, Frankenthaler diluted her paint, thinning it out so it melted into the weave of the canvas and became the canvas.
«It's a kind of marrying the paint into the woof and weave of the canvas itself, so that they become one and the same.»
Already he had banished tactility, shown the weave of the canvas and even the constituent parts of the paint.
Both series make ample use of the ground, whether the weave of canvas or the white of paper.
Here, your face is on the surface and you actually see what it means to be a painter, you are actually dealing with the weave of the canvas and how light hits the paint on the side, things that you tend to forget about in many circumstances of viewing paintings.
He builds compositions that are both simple and involved, paying close attention to all aspects of a painting's construction, including the differences between cotton and linen surfaces, the weave of each canvas, and the individual properties of tempera versus oil paint.
From there, she paints smoothly and thinly enough that the weave of her canvas still shows.
This method results in fields of transparent color that seem to float in space, with the weave of the canvas establishing the flatness of the image.
One could mistake them for works on paper, except that the spray texture and the weave of the canvas accentuate the spatter.
Often puncturing the surface with stitching or padded strips of fabric, the eye teeters between physical elements attached to the front and ethereal washes of ink that recede backwards into the weave of the canvas.
He found the surface more absorbent and liked the matt effect of paint sinking into the weave of the canvas.
Painstakingly removing individual threads from the weave of the canvas, Yamahira deconstructs his paintings, turning surface into form.
STAMBERG: To do that, Frankenthaler diluted her paint, thinned it out so it melted into the weave of the canvas and became the canvas, and the canvas became the painting.
Through the thinning of the paint, «it melted into the weave of the canvas and became the canvas.
Seattle - based artist Ko Kirk Yamahira deconstructs his paintings by painstakingly removing individual threads from the weave of the canvas, turning surface into form.
The color seemed to come out of the weave of the canvas, as though dyed into it.»
The paint penetrated the weave of the canvas to create a perfectly flat painting.
Graphite gently dragged across the weave of the canvas offers a gentle and sensuous irregularity....
Rousseau's poetic nonchalance is a good spiritual antecedent to Krushenick's flirtatious relationship with representation: this weave might be the weave of the canvas, or it might be the city's grid.
This led to a kind of epiphany while looking at the minimalist paintings of Agnes Martin at Dia: Beacon in Beacon, N.Y. «Beneath her tiny grids there was another tiny grid — the weave of the canvas,» he said.
Guided by parallel lines, Leapman draws a brush across the canvas from left to right, thus the paint engages with the weave of the canvas with varying intensity and depth, resulting in her characteristic paintings with their rhythmic, undulating surfaces.
In his latest body of work, complex webs of colour interlace to echo the weave of the canvas itself.
The thin paint of the edge of the bed, through which the weave of the canvas is clearly visible, contrasts sharply with the thick paint of the bed clothes, just as the thin vertical strokes of the curtain contrast with the creamy treatment of the flesh.
Characterized by beautifully reflective surfaces and the use of printing techniques, the seductively luminescent paintings of that decade revealed the material reality beneath the painterly illusion, accentuating the weave of the canvas and the lines of the support with the use of such devices as the painted «window frames» that characterized one
Here, your face is on the surface and you actually see what is means to be a painter, you are actually dealing with the weave of the canvas and how light hits the paint on the side, things that you tend to forget about in many circumstances of viewing paintings.
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