They produced thousands of rectangular semiabstract paintings with colorful brush strokes that were painfully imitative and repetitive.
As early as one generation after the Spanish conquest, he had assimilated the European style so completely that his compositions are very similar to woodcuts in a German Bible, but he often changed the format, turning horizontal rectangular borders into oval vertical paintings and adding colours and modeling to the black-and-white lines.
You walk into Dalí expecting Surrealist razzmatazz and instead find a sober sequence of rectangular rooms with plain white walls, paintings hung in a line and objects displayed in vitrines, as though the works in them were from a serious artist; which, of course, they are.
He sat down heavily, nudging his rectangular glasses and looking around at the paintings of Jesus and the photographs of staff-bearing Coptic bishops.
The painting's symmetry is striking, a point noted in a review of Bingham's river paintings from the New York Times: the rectangular flatboat floats downstream, framed by a peaceful river, misty tree-lined riverbanks, and a pale blue, cloudless sky.
Ms. Siegel's organization of the show proposes that painting progressed from stretched, rectangular canvases to loosey-goosey off-the-stretcher works and back, culminating in stretched paintings by Elizabeth Murray, Pat Steir and Ron Gorchov, and finally in an unusually incoherent work by Joan Snyder.
The restaurant is rectangular and plain, with neutral walls hung with paintings.
The restaurant itself is rectangular and plain, with neutral walls hung with paintings that at least suggest a touch of color, courtesy of a rotating array of artists.
On 300 identical rectangular canvases, Mr. Gallizia commissioned matched pairs of paintings from leading street artists worldwide, to create a panorama of graffiti's historical and geographical development from 1970s New York subway roots to modern urban landscapes as far-flung as Australia and Brazil.
Eight paintings by Pereyns were situated in the rectangular wooden architectural grid that he provided.
