Sentences with phrase «magna acrylic»

Inspired by the enamel stains of Jackson Pollock and the thin washes of Helen Frankenthaler, Louis created his Veils by pouring Magna acrylic paint thinned with turpentine onto unprimed, unstretched canvases.

This series would come to be known as the Veil paintings and was rendered in Magna acrylic paint, which would become the artist's exclusive medium.

Friedel Dzubas (1915 - 1994) First Run, 1972 Magna acrylic on canvas, 96 x 96 inches Inscribed, signed, dated, and titled verso: «No: 63 + A. / Dzubas / 70 / «FIRST RUN» / MAGNA ON CANVAS / 8» x8» / DZUBAS / 72»

Jules Olitski, Shaker, 1961, magna acrylic on canvas, 25 x 16 inches (courtesy The Olitski Family Estate and Freedman Art)

His deliberate appropriation of comic - book imagery became one of the most engaging forms of artistic expression, mostly thanks to the size of these artworks and the medium — magna acrylic and oil on canvas.

Prince Patutszky Pleasures, 1962 Magna acrylic on canvas 89 3/4 x 88 in.

Not exact matches

[37] In Magna pigments are ground in an acrylic resin with alcohol - based solvents.

TOP IMAGE: BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS, «Slick (Self - Portrait),» 1977 (oil, acrylic, and magna on linen canvas).

Oil, acrylic and Magna on linen canvas, 1976.

Magna, a special artist use acrylic paint was developed by Leonard Bocour and Sam Golden in 1947 and reformulated in 1960, specifically for Morris Louis and other stain painters of the color field movement.

Up close to his Veils, pigment sparkles in Magna, the acrylic resin made specially for him.

Oil, acrylic, and Magna on linen canvas, 72 x 48 in.

The particular acrylic resin used as the material for Bocour's Magna paint, called «Acryloid F - 10,» maintained a transparency on par with the highest grade of optical glass.

I've used acrylic paint since the early 1990s and am very interested in its history, starting with magna paint which was invented not that long ago (the 1950s).

With a unique pouring technique, Morris Louis achieved his intensely vivid hues by staining his canvases with Magna, a newly developed form of synthetic acrylic resin which fully penetrated the fabric and completely covered the fibers of his canvas to build glowing fields of voluminous color.

The haloing effect seen around each stain results from the turpentine that is used to thin out the paint, a step necessary for oil paints and the Magna brand of acrylic paint.

Only by experimenting day in and day out with a new acrylic formula called Magna (which he ordered by the gallon) did Louis (1912 - 62) arrive at something approaching a painting that satisfied him.

Shown, «Slick (Self Portrait),» 1977 (oil, acrylic, and magna on linen canvas).

Barkley L. Hendricks, «What's Going On,» oil, acrylic and magna on canvas, copyright the Estate of Barkley L. Hendricks.

Among the dominant trends in the Post-Painterly Abstraction are Hard - Edged Painters such as Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella who explored relationships between tightly ruled shapes and edges, in Stella's case, between the shapes depicted on the surface and the literal shape of the support and Color - Field Painters such as Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis, who stained first Magna then water - based acrylic paints into unprimed canvas, exploring tactile and optical aspects of large, vivid fields of pure, open color.

It surprised me that Helen had remained loyal to oil paints as, by the time I was in New York, safe water - based acrylics were available (the new Magna paints had been unsafe, causing the tragic death of artist Morris Louis in 1962).

BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS, «What's Goin On,» 1974 (oil, acrylic, and magna on cotton canvas, 65 3/4 x 83 3/4 in.).

He used Magna paint an oil based acrylic paint.

By pouring acrylic paint (magna) over a canvas he created a brilliant stained color.

Working with new acrylics like Magna, which retained their bright hues even when thinned to a watery consistency, they made exceptionally vivid, viscous and immediate paintings on unprimed canvas.

BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS, «What's Going On,» 1974 (oil, acrylic, and magna on cotton canvas, 65 3/4 x 83 3/4 inches).

Works in Louis's «Veils» series, at Mnuchin, were also made with Magna (an acrylic resin invented by a friend of Louis's, the paint chemist Leonard Bocour).

Based in Washington, DC, Louis (1912 - 1962) was a pioneer in the use of early forms of acrylic paint, especially Magna, a type of acrylic resin.

Tet 1958 acrylic resin (Magna) on canvas 94 1/8 x 152 1/8 inches (239.1 x 386.4 cm) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, purchase, with funds from the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art

[25] Lichtenstein used oil and Magna (early acrylic) paint in his best known works, such as Drowning Girl (1963), which was appropriated from the lead story in DC Comics» Secret Hearts # 83.

Within the Washington Color School, Reed was recognized as the most successful at using the transparency new acrylic paints offered to overlap colors, somethingMorris Louis (1912 - 1962) had explored in his Veil paintings but abandoned as he could not achieve the vibrancy he desired with the first generation of acrylic paints, Magna.