| Shaped Canvas - The Concept and History | | | | pieces often carried tapering tops. Renaissance |
| Conventionally, most of painting canvasses are | | | | Painters like Raphael used 'Tondo' or circular |
| rectangular and are used with landscape or | | | | canvas for painting religious themes, mostly those |
| portrait orientation. By the 1930s, apart from the | | | | featuring Madonna. Baroque and Rococo painters |
| styles of painting, the artists began experimenting | | | | often employed oval-shapes canvasses for their |
| with the shapes and forms of the canvas bases. | | | | ornate paintings. |
| All this started in 1934-35 when Abraham Joel | | | | The Details |
| Tobias (born, 1913) exhibited his pioneering body | | | | Shaped canvas painting may take two forms - |
| of works, known as 'Sculptural Paintings.' The | | | | one, where the two dimensional canvas is cut in a |
| paintings were executed on canvasses of | | | | particular shape or the other, where the canvas is |
| different shapes and sizes, mounted on complex | | | | modified into a three-dimensional base. A |
| design frames to achieve desired results. | | | | three-dimensional canvas is obtained by adding |
| However, shaped canvas painting has ancient | | | | some material or otherwise altering it. The two |
| roots, extending back up to the Gothic and | | | | forms of shaped canvasses can be combined to |
| Renaissance Periods. Gothic and Renaissance | | | | create innovative designs fit for elaborate work. |