A new series of paintings offers an interplay of black and
white rectangles as they appear to swell and warp over a field of subdued grey.
Not exact matches
From the air, they stand out
as enormous iridescent
white rectangles filled with translucent blue - green ponds.
In this case, called nematic order, every space on the checkerboard is
white, but the shapes of the spaces are distorted from a square to a
rectangle;
as you turn round and round on one space, your neighboring space is nearer or farther depending on the direction you are facing.
Prototype AG 1.1,
as we discussed before, is a glitter topper with blue - to - purple shifting pigment and
white hexes, stars, moons, squares,
rectangles, dots, and diamonds.
The static menus run with the same pink,
white, and smiles - in - varying -
rectangles motif
as the cover.
Assayas» third short, Laissé inachevé à Tokyo (1982), shot in black - and -
white with Elli Medeiros in the lead part, plays on a similar ambiguity
as Rectangle.
You'll need to download and run the ppt to see the bar method unraveled,
as i've animated behind
white rectangles!
The
white belly followed, tapering, and then, trailing behind, the fan of its tail and long parallel legs of crimson lacquer, the toes of each of them closed and streamlined, but the whole shape flattening, when the band of sunlight was crossed, into a two - dimensional shadow once more, enormously displayed across the
rectangle of cloth,
as distinct and nearly
as immobile, so languid was its flight,
as an emblematic bird on a sail; then sliding across it and along the nearly still corridor of air between the invisible eaves and the chimneys, dipping along the curl of the lane like a sigh of wonder, and, at last, a furlong away slowly pivoting, at a gradual tilt, out of sight.
David Ryan's Set 2 (c) also seems to have some doubling going on, this time within the one painting, in the repetition of
rectangles that occupy different spaces, one in lime green, one in yellow ochre and one in
white,
as well
as the containing
rectangle of the support.
From the same decade are Factor (1983) and Pair Navigation (1984)-- the first a
white rectangle projected out from the wall with rods and fasteners, the second a very similar arrangement, but placed
as a platform on the floor.
Reinhardt had been a great admirer of Mondrian, who had emigrated to New York in 1939, and had established his studio
as a de Stijl - type installation — a three dimensional environment based on the geometric paintings in which he used
rectangles of red, yellow, and blue
as hues, with
white and black in opposition.
As spacious and sleek as the work itself, this monograph reproduces two sculptures from 2004 and 2005, along with 17 new paintings dating from 2007 and 2008, eight of which consist of a black or white rectangle with a contrasting black, white or colored rectangle placed diagonally on top and extending beyond the boundary of the canvas belo
As spacious and sleek
as the work itself, this monograph reproduces two sculptures from 2004 and 2005, along with 17 new paintings dating from 2007 and 2008, eight of which consist of a black or white rectangle with a contrasting black, white or colored rectangle placed diagonally on top and extending beyond the boundary of the canvas belo
as the work itself, this monograph reproduces two sculptures from 2004 and 2005, along with 17 new paintings dating from 2007 and 2008, eight of which consist of a black or
white rectangle with a contrasting black,
white or colored
rectangle placed diagonally on top and extending beyond the boundary of the canvas below.
In this light, his overlapping
white rectangles of 1951 can resemble tracery
as well.
In each resulting photograph, the movie is seen only
as a glowing
white rectangle that appears suspended in space, illuminating the mysterious effects of the passage of time.
Longacre -
White adds two somewhat neater black
rectangles,
as liquid latex on the floor.
It is the fabulous balance of red and
white squares in a Malevich gouache, or the glowing sheaves of fluorescent tubes in a Dan Flavin sculpture; it is Hélio Oiticica's black and
white rectangles swing - dancing across a painted board, and Sophie Taeuber - Arp's cross-stitch embroidery of circles and triangles holding hands,
as it seems, with a big scarlet square.
As one critic has noted, these spaces were «an experimental expansion of the work and the condition for its accomplishment»... [Ben Nicholson recollected that Mondrian's Paris] studio had a black floor, and
white walls on which the ageing artist, 62 at the time of Nicholson's visit, pinned cardboard
rectangles of primary colours that he could move around at will.
The artist used Spain's tragic social and political conflict
as a starting point for the creation of what has become his hallmark, a dramatic series of images relying consistently on the contrast of ovals and
rectangles and black and
white.
By the end of his stay in France, Kelly had created some classic compositions of coloured
rectangles with repeated modular forms,
as in Red Yellow Blue
White and Black with
White Border (1952 - 53).