Shaped canvas

shaped canvas - A type of painting/stretched canvas first begun in the 1960's, where the canvas takes other forms than the traditional rectangle.

Shaped canvas paintings are done on canvas in a shape other than the traditional rectangle. ...

Her major accomplishment has been to find a way to express her emotional responses to an object, letting her passions go in abstract painting and, at the same time, fusing that rawness within a finely tuned precision, the shaped canvas.

The shaped canvases took on even less regular forms in the Eccentric Polygon series, and elements of collage were introduced, pieces of canvas being pasted onto plywood, for example.

Sandra Tarantinoi, Visual Artist, shaped canvases, portraiture, artist in Toronto, Canada.
Balzac Fine Arts - Balzac Fine Arts specializes in original Inuit and Canadian art.

Pascali's distinct contribution came in the form of his "fake sculptures," or shaped canvases depicting abstract forms that resemble actual objects, reminiscent of theater sets that blur the boundaries between illusion and reality.

These individual styles included: Hard-Edge Painting, Colour Stain Painting, Washington Colour Movement, American Lyrical Abstraction, and Shaped Canvas.

Lyrical Abstraction, Pop art, Op art, Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, Monochrome painting, Neo-expressionism, Collage, Intermedia painting, Assemblage painting, Digital painting, Postmodern painting, Neo-Dada painting, Shaped canvas ...

See also: Painting, Abstraction, Sculpture, Modern art, Expression