Jenkins developed many tools and
approaches to paint application and, in 1958, he acquired an ivory knife and began to use it to guide the flow of paint.
Employing an unorthodox
approach to paint application, Jenkins is as much identified with the process of controll...
Not exact matches
This
approach stands in opposition
to the mechanical
application of colour in Hirst's spot
paintings.
Though many artists share a comparable
approach in portraying the
painted subject, Yanai works within a different cognitive space; He
paints with fine and calculated brushstrokes in an existential manner, with every mark laid down through a detailed
application, keeping layering
to a minimum.
Termed Color Field
painting by the art critic and champion of American abstract
painting, Clement Greenberg, it was defined and differentiated from Abstract Expressionism by an intense
approach to color theory and a revolutionary
application of
paint.
Yet she displays a knowledge and familiarity with academic theory and art history: Clement Greenberg; the changing
applications of portraiture from Holbein through
to Freud; different
approaches and time - scales
to painting a canvas; the allusive history of certain attitudes for sitters
to adopt.
Richard Prince has observed that Dahn's work «went through an incredible number of styles of
painting very quickly,» tearing through techniques, moods, and
approaches to material and
application in his work, even while adhering
to figuration and a consistent engagement with popular music, as well as a consistent interest in mixing imagery drawn from disparate sources.
Maine got a lot of mileage out of the indeterminate space between the abstract and the photographic in his recent exhibition at 490 Atlantic, and this picture suggests a different take on that same exploration, here dropping his signature moiré pattern in favor of a more direct
approach to the
application of
paint and a decidedly more aggressive palette.