Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The residual prejudice should at last be corrected by the Sam Francis retrospective-150 paintings on canvas and paper, spanning 25 years from 1947 to the present-which began at Buffalo's Albright-Knox Art Gallery earlier in the fall and opened last week at the Corcoran Gallery in...
Ceiling Watcher. Color and its vibrations have always been central to Francis' work. Son of a California mathematics professor, his career as a painter began in 1943 when, age 20, he was bedridden from a spinal injury sustained when his Air Force fighter crashed. The hospital was on the...
Whale White. Later, in paintings like Blue Ball series-Untitled, 1961, the diaphanous mists and blots of color were abolished in favor of a snowy white field on which dense blue circular shapes were deployed; later still, the series that included Untitled, 1970, pushed the activity of color from the...
Johnson uses the conventional technique of stained acrylic on raw canvas, but his work stands in complete contrast both to the programmed geometries of Stella or Noland and to their opposites, the so-called "lyrical abstractionists." It is, to begin with, about specific images. A high-strung man, Johnson years...
Visual Parallel. Typically, each of Johnson's works focuses on one central emblem, stained into an unstretched canvas that hangs, like a banner, on the wall: an orange-gold cone hovering in a void of purplish red; an exhilarating surge of scrolling ocherous waves, speckled with jade and malachite...