Sentences with phrase «worked upon the canvas»

The clear gloss and pure colour are then worked upon the canvas separately.

Not exact matches

This isn't heresy or dilution, its being aware of the backdrop to our evangelism and the canvas upon which we work.

By keeping the stock white paintwork as the visual base, JP wanted to represent a blank white canvas, upon which he would create a work of art.

The works from 1967 to 1971 feature acrylic on mylar and canvas and feature both subtle and more obvious female symbols — Keyhole and Side OX feature distinct hole shapes, while the disjointed geometric forms in Horizontal Woman No. 2 may only reveal a woman to viewers upon a close look.

His early work passed though the styles of impressionism, Orphism, Dada, Surealism, and verbal and visual collagel his later art extended from composition that superimpose linear painted figures upon one another (and, sometimes, several of those on apinted ground), to painting based on pinup nudes and commercial illustrations and, finally, to coarse, heavily textured canvases that depict totems, masks and shields.

Landscape has inspired painters, it was the canvas upon which created the most impressive and great works by the artists of Land & Earth Art, an art movement in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked.

There are no traditional canvases in Gomes's work: painting instead becomes sculpture, object, an act of mark making upon a surface, or an arrangement on a wall.

Upon searching through this work, Januszkiewicz discovered an old, unprimed roll of canvas, never used by Reed in his practice, which dated as far back as the 1960s.

In their current works the Kippers have concentrated on the visual aspects of the performance, and have begun to see the end result of the piece as the accretion of food and debris on the canvas flooring upon which they perform.

This textured, ruptured canvas functions as a record of Roth's actions from 1975 to 1992 and asserts that a studio floor is just as much a work of art as the works produced upon its surface.

Upon initial inspection, the canvas bore some characteristics of Red Mesa, a work on linen, at least in terms of form and color.

Upon returning to the United States in April 1953, he went back to work in his Fulton Street studio in New York, completing this canvas and several others in what is generally understood to be his second wave of Black paintings.3

What is at stake in this work is not so much representing a figure and giving it flesh, but the staging of an image's life — as if the image was taking revenge upon the portrait and pushing its way to the surface of the canvas, with the help of curtains and shadows, pictorial marks and brushwork.

Matthew Radford removes the effects of gravity in his painting process by working with his canvas flat upon the floor and employing improvised walkways across the surface of the larger pieces.

By drawing upon the idea of reverence within the boundaries of the canvas, and guided by intuition, the concentration of mark making infuses the work with energy and confers unto each piece a distinct presence.

But upon viewing your work i immediately ordered 10 tubes of acrylic paints and 6 canvas boards to try my hand at this style of painting.

In addition to the abstract paintings, another prominent series of works features Styrofoam canvases, imprinted with footprints as if upon snow, transforming pictorial space into traversable ground.

These fourteen expansive canvases build upon a series of works inspired by Picasso which was unveiled at the Museo Picasso, Malaga, in 2012.

He uses vigorous brushstrokes and violent gestures with charcoal and oils, treating his large canvases as vital elements to be worked upon.

His work builds upon his background in graffiti art to create abstract large scaled works on canvas, created by various emotive processes.

The complementary oil colors are worked together on the canvas inch - by - inch, wet in wet, layer upon -LSB-...]

Described by Artforum as an «artist's artist,» Abts works in a way that reflects upon the act of painting itself, with each canvas materially inscribed by her meditative process.

series expands upon Martinez's recent practice of utilizing enlarged silkscreens of small Sharpie drawings as a starting point for large - scale works on canvas.

Working almost exclusively in black and white with occasional interventions of colour Stupía draws upon an extensive palette of marks and techniques within a single canvas.

To a lesser extent, the term «controversy» also relates to Ofili's notoriety as an artist known, or remembered, for regularly (and some might say «irreverently») fixing dried orbs of elephant dung to canvases, as well as positioning them as spherical stands upon which works are placed to transform them from two - dimensional artworks into more complex three - dimensional mixed - media sculptures (adding to its potentially troublesome qualities, The Holy Virgin Mary utilized both techniques).

Continuing to use his technique, established in the 1950s, of staining unsized raw canvas with acrylic paint, here Noland has expanded upon it by not only painting the front surface of the canvas, but also working from behind.

In an impassioned essay for the accompanying exhibition catalogue, Dimitri Ozerkov, Curator and Director of the Contemporary Art Department at the State Hermitage Museum, expounds upon the British painter's work: «This is literally and truly painting: the laborious application of paint to canvas, careful orchestration of the composition and the search for a subject and its accompanying attributes.

By pouring her acrylic pigments (she works almost solely with black and white) directly onto glass and letting them dry there, she can then slice into the pigment and, having cut out a cartouche or a length of filigree, can carefully lift that segment of limp paint from the glass and position it upon the canvas.

While 20th century experiments with the effects of pure color — particularly Color Field painting and abstract expressionism — often relied upon immersive force and the use of large canvases to envelop the viewer's entire body, Amm's work elicits sustained acts of seeing and a more consciously analytical stance.

The high velocity color and fractured narratives explored in these recent paintings show an uncompromising commitment to explore the compositional potential on all the canvases and triplewall plastic that he works upon.

Both works are composed of latex and canvas and utilize repetition of vaguely rectangular elements that rely upon the room's architecture to support their pliable structures.

In past work, the paint more dramatically creased, pinched, and folded as the artist piled layer upon layer of oil skins on the canvas, further abstracting the image.

«A series of photographic works titled «A Woman's Work is Never Done» Using my own hand as a base material, I considered it a canvas upon which I stitched into the top layer of skin

Influenced by the events of the Arab Spring, the artist, who was born in 1970 in Addis - Ababa and works in New York, has again filled huge canvases with skeins upon skeins of architectural plans, city maps, darting lines and free - flowing, undulating attacks of ink that are more powerful than ever, abstractly suggesting wild rivers, treacherous mountains and bombed - out landscapes.

Initially he used PCBs purely as a background canvas for his figures, before switching to backing boards upon which he now layers materials (PCBs and other media) and paint, to create more complex works displaying greater contrasts of texture and shape.

In such canvases as «Selbstporträt als Tier» (Self - portrait as animal)(1963) and «Balancing Myself» (1965), Lassnig trains her eye upon herself, offering up works that are caricatured, allegorical, and psychologically penetrating.

He elaborated upon Fontana's work, developing what he called «extroflexions» — intricate stretchers that molded his vinyl - coated monochromatic canvases and suggested a force pushing out from beneath.

With her oil works, she resists the urge to dunk her canvas directly into the paint, and makes up for it instead with her thick and supple strokes layer upon layer.

Many pieces in the exhibition were created by artists working with abstraction, such as Sam Gilliam's works that expand upon color field painting, or Jack Whitten's signature, process - based canvas.

A gallery filled with abstract works from 1947, 1949, and 1950 tellingly illuminates how the artist, born out West, in Cody, Wyoming, in January 1912, executed canvases that initially look chaotic but upon further viewing reveal themselves to be well structured.

Working downward from the top of the canvas, using a limited range of colors, Wilson adds layer upon layer of pigment, a technique that provides extraordinary translucence and resonance.

He meticulously and slowly spreads buttery textures layer upon layer to build his geometric work; she drops a stretched canvas on the floor and flicks tiny drops of paint repeatedly to conjure the silhouettes she sees in their garden in East Marion on Long Island's North Fork.

A group of abstract works, based in part upon drawings done of couples together, possesses a concentration and balance not always present in the stream of painterly consciousness that marks her other canvases.

In other works, however, the themes feel like an abstract frame forced upon individual positions, for instance, in Monika Sosnowska's Façade (2013), a hanging steel sculpture of a crumpled architectural grid, or Oscar Murillo's unnecessary monumental installation Condiciones aún por titular (Conditions yet not known), 2014 — 17, taking over the courtyard of Bait Al Serkal with excavations, sawn canvases, paintings and steel structures inspired by morgue tables, picturing the process of a personal archaeology.

It was as if each of us became a canvas upon which she imprinted the patterns of her magic so we could retrieve our personal understandings of her later in our own lives and work.