Shaped canvas

With Shaped Canvas (German: shaped screen ) is referred to a resulting in modern painting tendency to lift the rectangular sheet of image, whereby a congruence between the image content and image form or a dialectic relationship between outer and inner mold is to be brought about.

The American painter Frank Stella is a typical representative of this art movement, and he adapted the outlines of his pictures to the painterly motifs. In Germany, in some cases before Stella, Gerhard Hoehme , Rupprecht Geiger and Winfred Gaul broke the traditional image format.

The round picture ( tondo ), which appeared in the Renaissance and Caravaggio's work , can be regarded as an early forerunner .

literature

Frances Colpitt: The Shape of Painting in the 1960s . In: Art Journal , Vol. 50/1991, Issue 1, pp. 52–56
Winfred Gaul: shaped canvas - legend and reality. In: Ders .: Picasso and the Beatles. Eremitenpresse, Düsseldorf 1987, pp. 176-178.
Winfred Gaul: Without right angles. Painting 1964-1989. Exhibition catalog. From the Heydt Museum, Wuppertal 1998.

Individual evidence

↑ Winfred Gaul: shaped canvas - legend and reality. In: Ders .: Picasso and the Beatles. Eremitenpresse, Düsseldorf 1987, p. 178.
↑ See e.g. B. Caravaggio's Medusa from 1597/98 in: Sybille Ebert-Schifferer : Caravaggio. See - be amazed - believe. The painter and his work. Beck, Munich 2009, p. 102 f.

[1] Winfred Gaul: shaped canvas - legend and reality. In: Ders .: Picasso and the Beatles. Eremitenpresse, Düsseldorf 1987, p. 178.

[2] See e.g. B. Caravaggio's Medusa from 1597/98 in: Sybille Ebert-Schifferer : Caravaggio. See - be amazed - believe. The painter and his work. Beck, Munich 2009, p. 102 f.