canvases
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Abstract expressionist paintings share certain characteristics, including the use of large canvases, an "all-over" approach, in which the whole canvas is treated with equal importance (as opposed to the center being of more interest than the edges).
During the 1970s and 1980s his shaped canvases were highly irregular and asymmetrical.
Davis once said he preferred to think of himself as a painter rather than an artist, and the 27 canvases here — which Ms. Molesworth selected and installed according to palette — back him up.
During the 1860s, Monet and Renoir sometimes painted on canvases prepared with the traditional red-brown or grey ground.
But as their city grieved, Leesa Kelly and Kenda Zellner-Smith found much-needed comfort in the messages of anguish and hope that appeared on boarded-up windows as residents turned miles of plywood into canvases.
Framed against the Rita Ackermann paintings, which telegraph an ecstatic universality via their bright-hued abstraction, Sevigny’s photographed figure looks as naturally placed within the gallery walls as the canvases themselves.