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    What examples are there of famous artists having painted on canvasses that weren't the usual rectangular, circular or oval shapes?

    Question #59021. Asked by gmackematix. (Aug 25 05 6:21 PM)


    lanfranco

    		Are you trying to drive me nuts, gmack?

    Here's Ellsworth Kelly, at MOMA. He's done this this sort of thing a lot:

    http://www.art-history-online.info/imagepages/ahom03w07/ahom03w07ellsworthinst.htm

    Aug 25 05, 6:45 PM
    lanfranco

    		I should that we've got a bunch of altarpieces that are nominally rectangular, but with curved tops. I'm not quite sure what you'd call that shape:

    http://www.abcgallery.com/T/titian/titian16.html

    Aug 25 05, 6:52 PM
    lanfranco

    		I meant, of course, that I should "ADD."

    Aug 25 05, 6:54 PM
    peasypod

    		Not only nuts, but paranoid too. ;)

    Aug 25 05, 6:55 PM
    lanfranco

    		Undoubtedly paranoid. It happens when you're trying to convince museum packers that you can't put a round painting into a square crate. :)

    Aug 25 05, 7:08 PM
    gmackematix

    		Oh yes, the semicircular arch is a fairly common one for diptychs, triptychs and the like isn't it. The first example was more like it although I'd never heard of the artist and I was hoping for a little more...well, content in the pictures on the canvasses.

    And of course, Frankie, you're only being paranoid if I'm not out to get you...;)

    Aug 25 05, 7:25 PM
    lanfranco

    		Uh oh. Are you?

    Aug 25 05, 7:59 PM

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