Sentence examples for canvas surface from inspiring English sources

They perform the same games, but they exist only on the canvas surface.

His primary influences were Picasso and Cubism, from which he learned respect for the flat, two-dimensional canvas surface.

Picasso's dominating idea is sculpture - bringing the values of sculpture to the one-dimensional canvas surface with its familiar illusions of three-dimensionality and perspective.

There was also a touch of the Spanish artist Antoni Tàpies, because he, too, did paintings involving string across a canvas surface".

Almost surreal in its displacement, this mundane object (with an overtone of menace), framed by a flat plane like that of a canvas surface, became a leitmotif for Siskind.

"Unexplained Object" is an amorphous, tentlike structure whose white canvas surface is made to bulge and undulate by internal machinery that is somehow controlled, according to the gallery, by a Geiger counter's measurements of ambient radiation.

But Mr. Ligon makes Baldwin's words all but unreadably dark, by stenciling them with a mixture of black paint and coal dust that cakes and clots on the canvas surfaces like epidermal growth and gives off a spooky sheen.

Inspired by the swirling drips and spatters of Jackson Pollock, and focusing on the idea of the painting as a physical event rather than as the production of an object, Mr. Kaprow pushed the "action painting" aesthetic in multimedia directions, at first by bulking up his canvas surfaces with hunks of straw and wadded newspapers and adding movable parts that viewers were invited to manipulate.

I embrace doubt and discovery within my paintings, on both the Triplewall plastic and canvas surfaces, and I work on trying to create new spatial dynamics possessed with different attitudes.

The smoothness of copper allowed the brush to glide on the surface without the interruption or absorption characteristic of wood or canvas surfaces.

"Evening Bird Songs With Crickets and Fireflies" (1978), whose large raw-canvas surface is marked with birdlike tracks and lines punctuated with squiggles and dabs in various colors, suggests a John Cage score.