Sentences with phrase «yield paintings within paintings»

In this work Betty has investigated the strategies of hierarchy in Roman painting, a world of squares within rectangles, borders and friezes that yield paintings within paintings.

Not exact matches

The graceful curves of the paintings» edges (a curve dominates each large work) yield to the painted divisions within - creating a sense of extension into the surrounding architecture.

Kosuth has also coloured the gallery walls as part of his montage that yields meaning and visual effects not only within individual elements, but also from the collision of, say, a gashed Fontana canvas, the blown - up definition of the word «red», and a wall coloured in Benjamin Moore household paint, an industrial medium favoured by Frank Stella and Andy Warhol.

Movement within a painting is an illusion, but Hollingsworth's exaggerated alla prima technique yields whole works that are not static; movement is not an illusion but a factor of a painting's age and placement.

Ellen Schwartz writes in 1977 about his show at John Weber, where his constructed paintings were still abstract: «Humphrey's latest works, meditative rather than communicative, require the suspension of conscious efforts to grasp them before they will yield their secrets, which lay within ourselves all the while.