The main difference is that Mr. Botero's figures fill the canvas, as if they were models on a billboard, looking indifferently out at the viewer.
Regardless of the geometric form, he wrote, "Mr. Noland has been consistent and unvarying — not to say single-minded — in his artistic purpose, which has been to fill the canvas surface with a pictorial experience of pure color".
In "Vapor," light seems to leak out and play over the horizontal rows of comblike bars -- each subtly shaded with brush and dry pigment from black to gray to white -- that fill the canvas.
The interlocking, overlapping loops that fill the canvas's surface create a succession of visual echoes that register a certain cognitive depth, leading one to imagine the artist's thought process.
Cork writes, "The irises and their blaring green leaves fill the canvas with insistent movement, as if jostling for room in the confined picture-space.
To make the vision a reality and to fill that canvas with a picture that everyone sees, you need a team of people to believe in your vision, and then you need to go out there and get fans/customers to buy into your creation.
Fill the canvas with blue.
Fill the canvas with the black color.
Create a texture or fill the canvas with a texture.
Noah's nakedness fills the canvas, making it impossible not to look.
