Sally Shore uses grosgrain ribbon to weave intricate geometric compositions that recall Op Art canvases by Vasarely.
The man is unemployed, addicted to sniffing petrol and solvents, and nurses a grumbling resentment that his brother won't let him play guitar in their band; the young woman lives with her grandmother and helps her produce the folk art canvases which an exploitative white dealer buys and sells at a chi-chi city gallery for a colossal markup.
"I stretched some of my husband's race tees over square art canvases.
The taggers were to demonstrate their art on canvases, not on MoMA's walls.
Friends contributed eccentric furniture, and, surrounded by art books, canvases, and stylized dress forms that Ruben designs for Pucci Mannequins (including the refreshingly well-padded "Birdie" — 38-32-44), a woodwormridden Buddha sits on an odd-shaped table.
Friends contributed eccentric furniture, and, surrounded by art books, canvases, and stylized dress forms that Ruben designs for Pucci Mannequins (including the refreshingly well-padded "Birdie" — 38-32-44), a woodworm-ridden Buddha sits on an odd-shaped table.
In the early 20th century, at a time when many U.S. moguls were focusing on amassing European masters, banking and steel scion Duncan Phillips focused his collecting efforts on American art, acquiring canvases by now venerated painters such as Thomas Eakins, Marsden Hartley, Winslow Homer, Georgia O'Keeffe and Helen Frankenthaler.
Kids from all over were invited to take part in the video by making art on canvases that were then superimposed onto the video, creating a swirling, immersive effect that is somewhere between the Fresh Prince of Bel Air and Jackson Pollock.
It encompasses antiquity and modern art, including canvases by masters such as Bruegel, Rembrandt, Cézanne, Caravaggio, and van Gogh, with works by Willem de Kooning, Donald Judd, Andy Warhol, and Francis Bacon among its contemporary holdings.
Many of Lynch's large, tactile art-brut canvases feature variously cryptic, comic, and ominous inscriptions ("Suddenly My House Became a Tree of Sores," "There Is Nothing Here, Please Go Away").
The installation was a site- and Israeli-specific meditation on religion and its discontents: public toilets as confessionals, menacing Op Art-like canvases and Web-found portraits of female German psychologists.
