Sentences with phrase «word paintings»

The show consists of a new body of word paintings on velvet.

The exhibition will consist of a new body of word paintings on velvet.

According to the story told by the artist himself, Wool began to create word paintings in the late 1980s after having seen graffiti on a brand new white truck.

In other words his paintings reflected a very personal way of seeing.

The artists from the group sometimes referred to their work as word painting.

Robert Indiana Biography of American Pop Artist Noted for Word Paintings, Sculptures.

Also, he said, labelling changes would be hugely expensive to some brewers that do not use paper labels on bottles and instead use bottles with words painted on them.

This exhibition includes Betty's recent series of WOMEN Words paintings, along with a survey of her early works on paper, and large - scale Cunt, Fuck, and Pussy paintings.

The old beams from the demolished warehouses cut down and sat upright as stelae had the breadth to bear just one word, such as «Moon» or «Orb,» or «Soul» and «Mate,» as did some of my first word paintings i.e. the diptych panels «Eat» and «Die,» but the sheer expanse of the wide canvases led to the proliferation of the word and whole passages and wheels of words appeared.

Like many PST shows, it's a broad mix of works and ephemera, ranging from the poster Duchamp designed for his retrospective — a wanted poster with the artist as criminal — to Ed Ruscha's «Hotel,» a signature word painting from 1961, and a rare instance of physical texture in the artist's work: the word «HOTEL» is outlined in uncharacteristically thick, gray brushstrokes.

At Art Brussels, the concrete abstract painter is finally getting his due in a solo booth filled with his signature word paintings from the»80s and»90s — an ongoing series in which the artist hides letters and words within graphic, abstract works.

He remembered those two large words painted on the seaward wall of a factory, though Le Havre was no longer a big harbor.

Even Ed Ruscha's signature word paintings did not escape exposure to potential tech - world buyers as being directly relevant to their lives.

Ms. Sanders» most highly valued Spiegel collection works at Christie's were Sigmar Polke's 1964 Ben - Day dot canvas, «Frau mit Butterbrot,» and «Untitled,» a 1988 Christopher Wool word painting emblazoned with «PLEASE» six times.

Opening tonight, January 4th at Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco is «Art Work Makes You Free» a solo exhibition by Paul Mavrides presenting a new body of found - object word paintings that will blow...

Next door, an Ed Ruscha word painting and a Gerhard Richter face each other across a wall in a narrow room, anchored by a Roy Lichtenstein Mirror (1970).

Drawing on a variety of sources that also included his own drawings, prints and artist's books, Ruscha was often associated with the west coast cool style, but ultimately his work confounded the art world with its sly and elusive sense of deadpan humor, as seen in his series of bird paintings and in the liquid word paintings that rounded out the decade.

They must cope with vulgar verbal innuendo and worse, disgusting «pranks» like having demeaning words painted in excrement on their locker room walls or semen on their clothes, and, as the situation elevates, actual physical attacks.

Across the road above their heads rose the tangled fence, with swirling metal words painted in gold in the shape of an arch.

If words paint the clearest pictures of what go through people physically and psychologically, moving pictures can better concretize description for the audience to comprehend the presentation as quickest as possible.

The atmosphere of the town and its surrounding forest has been expertly engineered into the game — swirling mist, bright lights in the distance, ominous wording painted on surroundings that can only be seen when a torchlight is put across it and more.

Perhaps not accustomed to reading art criticism on a regular basis, the judges commented that the «crisp, clean words painted a picture in one's mind of being at the... read more... «Art critic Christopher Knight wins LA Press Club award»

His bold and rebellious word paintings have since become canonical: white canvases in which stenciled all - capital black letters spell out phrases like «sell the house sell the car sell the kids.»

Throughout the exhibition the artwork presented questioned the very word painting; is it a verb, an adjective, a noun, neither, or all.

Word painting derives from collage, and any combination of ego and facility recalls Pablo Picasso.

They think all Christopher Wool did was essentially word paintings.

As early as 2002, the oil on canvas word painting Talk About Space (1963), a takeoff on the American billboard in which a single word is the subject, was expected to sell for $ 1.5 million to $ 2 million from a private European collection.

Building his career at the fabled Ferus Gallery on La Cienega Blvd that launched West Coast Pop Art with his enigmatic word paintings before moving on to become one of the world's leading artists renowned for his ultra-flat (long before there was a «Superflat») paintings of gas stations, snow - capped mountains, & soft focus silhouettes.

Even higher was the $ 29.9 million paid by a telephone bidder against determined opposition from the New York dealer Philippe Ségalot for the American artist Christopher Wool's monumental 1990 black and white word painting, «Riot.»

Christopher Wool has continued and enhanced the Pop tradition of word painting begun by Pop artist Robert Indiana, twenty years before; Damien Hirst placed a pickled tiger shark in a cage and called it The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living; Richard Wilson filled a room with sump oil and called it 20:50.

Ms. Kass, who has a show of new word paintings, «No Kidding,» opening Dec. 9 at Paul Kasmin in Chelsea, said the question was which word to aim at which place.

This retrospective, the most comprehensive examination of Wool's career to date, goes beyond these now - iconic word paintings to present nearly 90 paintings, photographs, and works on paper that showcase the wide range of styles and painterly techniques the artist has employed throughout his influential career.

Inspired by that performance, the artist then set out to create 1,000 individual word paintings, intending the series to be presented en masse once complete.

On the opposite wall is Ed Ruscha's 1972 word painting Faith, while the dining room features large works by Diebenkorn and Helen Frankenthaler.

The 10th annual show, curated by White Columns Director Matthew Higgs, features such diverse works as Yevgeniya Baras» abstractions on canvas, John Giorno's witty word paintings and William Scott's visionary views of socially marginalized communities, amongst work in a variety of media by 22 additional contemporary artists.

The prominent New York artist is displaying a series of oversize word paintings that touch on the story of the Harlem Six (a group of black teenagers who were wrongly accused of murdering a shopkeeper in 1964) as well as a set of neon installations that play with the word «America,» among other works.

Ed Ruscha's laconically meticulous word paintings and John Baldessari's recycled film images may fit the collection's clean - lined Pop proclivities, while the acidic zaniness of Mike Kelley's work does not, but the Broads bought plenty of it over the years.

At Phillips on Monday night, another one - word painting executed by Mr. Ruscha in the same year brought $ 2.5 million.

• Word Art Embraces word painting and all forms of text - based art.

The first solo show of JANICE KRASNOW, at Jose Freire, is a series of word paintings forming a kind of body art that initially feels a little too close for comfort.

Highlights included the monumental black and white enamel - on - aluminum word painting «Riot» (1990) by Christopher Wool, which sold for $ 29.9 million; and Sigmar Polke's 1967 painting «Dschungel (Jungle)», which sold for $ 27 million.

I knew that this show was a variation of his trademark Word Paintings, which the artist made by choosing a word almost randomly (by intuition and shape and not meaning or sound) from an online list («words that will make you sound smart and not pretentious») and beginning with the word as a formal «armature» onto which he builds the rest of the painting.

Volume One contains 137 paintings printed in full color from Ruscha's student period to the Pop - and Conceptual - inflected word paintings of the 60s.

He continued to work regularly with two of the most important American contemporary artists: Christopher Wool, who had his first solo exhibition at the gallery in 1989, showing word paintings among others, and Jeff Koons — everyone in Cologne remembers his exceptional exhibitions Banality of 1988 as well as Made in Heaven in 1991.

#BTS with Christopher Wool's «Untitled (Riot)» — one of the artist's earliest and most legendary word paintings and a new addition to our upcoming Contemporary Art auction on 12 May in #NYC.

For all the ostensible connections Goldman's «distance paintings» shed, they also make new ones: to Marcel Duchamp's «Three Standard Stoppages,» to the stenciled word paintings of Christopher Wool.

Arts take another funny Turner The Scotsman; October 25, 2000; Simon Wilson; 700 + words A PAINTING inspired by Sir Edwin Landseer's famous work The Monarch of the Glen is bidding to turn the focus back on traditional art by scooping this year's Turner Prize.