Sentence examples for word paintings from inspiring English sources

The deadpan word paintings here (including "Note: Make a Painting of a Note as a Painting," a rainbow-hued mise en abyme from 1970) exhibit a trippy style and deadpan wit.

Another sought-after work was "Damage" (1964), one of the California artist Ed Ruscha's signature word paintings, with the word damage painted across a deep blue canvas in capital letters.

Word paintings are also popular.

The word paintings by Christopher Wool sold well earlier in the week.

Dickinson's attenuated handwriting finds an echo in Mira Schor's word paintings.

It becomes hard not to make word paintings in your head when talking to Ruscha.

Mr. Ganek even commissioned Ed Ruscha, a modernist known for his one-word paintings, to fashion a work incorporating the word "Level" for the hedge fund's offices.

Diebenkorn's "Ocean Park #92," from 1976, is estimated to fetch more than $4 million; Mr. Ruscha's "Mint (Red)," a 1968 example of his liquid-word paintings, is expected to sell for around $3 million, Mr. Manley said.

(The Dadaists wrote that any art that can be understood is "the product of a journalist" … Do you care?) I sometimes do works without words, paintings or drawings that are meant to be just by themselves, or texts with no images, but I like to play with both, leave gaps in the text that I can suggest in the drawing, or the reverse.

We can see painting being whittled down to almost nothing in the word-paintings of John Baldessari and On Kawara; the simple stripes of Daniel Buren; the dots of Niele Toroni; and the monochromes, or near-monochromes, of Robert Ryman, Olivier Mosset and Mr. Richter.

And if that's still not enough for confirmed Alanis junkies, there's her official thought-forum, aka website featuring a Vision On -style portrait gallery and a series of word-paintings of the inside of her head, aka poems.