A private donor gave the Tate £12.5m to secure "The Portrait of Omai" a show-stopping canvas by Reynolds, of a handsome young Tahitian who cut a swathe through British society in 1774, charming titled ladies who wondered how far his tattoos stretched.
The canvas stops before the bottom, like the hem of a dress.
Some really appalling late pictures, like a large triptych from 1976, which some squillionaire recently paid a fortune to buy, look horribly overstuffed with ugly heads and tired gimmicks, as if Bacon, worried he had exhausted the empty stretches of color he so often painted, didn't know when to stop filling the canvas up.
He painted out the ends of the stripes, so that they appear to stop where the canvas stops.
Electric and liquid color prove mutually enhancing and, with loose brushwork stopping well short of the canvas edges and wiring in full view, the overall roughness of execution makes the works as much installation pieces as paintings.
Bags made of rip-stop nylon, canvas or leather are good if you're going to be hard on your camera bag.
But that hasn't stopped snappily titled business Canvas Clocks (A5) – Actresses (they also have an actors branch) from making them its speciality.
As McKinniss was locking up, I stopped to look at a canvas of Pongo drying on the wall.
He stopped before a jaunty red canvas and asked, "What's the title on that one?" He'd only recently, and hastily, titled his pieces.
Happy!' " He stopped in front of a canvas on which the icon was painted or drawn hundreds of times, and gave it a look that was somewhere between quizzical and perturbed.
In the early 70's, he stopped working on a flat canvas and began making three-dimensional constructions that jutted out from the wall and contained ever more exuberant arrangements of curving forms and fluorescent color.
