Sentences with phrase «application of paint seems»
In some works the thick application of paint seems to tantalizingly obscure, while in other works, Katy's removal of the painterly gesture, with rags dipped in varnish or even by sanding, further complicates and deepens our reading of the expression.
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Richter obscured the details of each image using thick, heavy applications of paint, making the canvases seem ominous and spectral, sinister remnants of memories from an undefined past.
No Accidents is an intriguing name for work whose creamy application seems characterized by an excessive amount of paint.
From Joan Mitchell's loaded brushwork in Before, Again IV (1985) to Wayne Thiebaud's painting Candy Counter (1962), in which lush pigment seems to frost the images of cakes, a tactile application of paint energizes both abstract and figurative canvases.
The imagery is not without importance, but what seems to spur her creative process is the application of her hand to the material (be it paint, the printmaking plate or, in the case of her sole sculpture project with Gemini, the clay used to generate her series of 17 Heads, ultimately made of solid silver).
In the catalogue for his 1978 Arts Council, Hayward Gallery exhibition, an art critic wrote: «in spite of the excessive piling on of paint, the effect of these works on the mind is of images recovered and reconceived in the barest and most particular light, the same light that seems to glow through the late, great, thin Turners... an unpremeditated manifestation arising from the constant application of true draughtsmanship.»