Sentences with phrase «best drip paintings»

It also fills a real need at the Met (despite, just for starters, one of the best drip paintings by Jackson Pollock).

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Paul Jackson Pollock born 1912 in Cody, Wyoming was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement well known for his unique style of drip painting.

This video - taped performance recreates a well - known photograph of Jackson Pollock drip painting on the ground.

Rust - red canvases (which represent well the actual work) are strewn about, a single line of light illuminates a real dripping red spill of paint, foreshadowing blood and suicide.

I love most types of painting, from super-realism through to minimalism, but a good expressive work with paint slapped on and dripping off the canvas will always make me smile the widest Continue Reading

«Pollock's extraordinary, still controversial black paintings of 1951 finally get the attention they deserve; they prove to be just as radical as his earlier, more celebrated all - over drip paintings, and speak even more to our own time as well,» said John Elderfield, Chief Curator Emeritus of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art.

A gorgeous flood of lilac splats hedonistically across «Kumari»; the painting's surround configuration of expressively handled discs of green, aquamarine and red, all on a volatile stained ground of yellow, places it in a well - established tradition of abstract paintings that read as cosmic metaphors (Pollock's drip paintings that were meant to mirror universal flux or more recently Julian Schnabel's blue splurge titled, tongue - in - cheek, «Portrait of God»).

Working first with oil paints and later acrylic, Jenkins poured paint directly on the canvas, allowing it to drip, bleed, and pool, as well as manipulating it with an ivory knife.

The usual technique Peyton uses is oil, but watercolor, pencil, and etching are present as well and her most frequent feature are washy glazes of dripping paint.

In 1944 — the year Clyfford Still completed 1944 - N No. 2, Jackson Pollock — probably the best - known American Abstract Expressionist painter of the 20th century, was still searching for his signature style and was a year or so away from creating his first drip painting.

By laying the canvas on the ground, and dripping the paint onto it, the body of the painter was also immersed with color, the marks of his movement were also left on the canvas, as well as the ashes of the cigarettes the painter smoked while working.

While Jackson Pollock is considered as the most well - known painter who created his abstract pieces by dripping paint onto a flat canvas, many before him experimented with this method as well.

Paddy's visit to the Whitney Museum of American Art's new building prompted a discussion about what makes a good splatter painting; in her slideshow, there's a so - so drip - and - pour piece by Jackson Pollock.

The painting Knowledge of Good & Evil is a good example: a cell - like shape with an image of an embryonic figure (just a thick drip of paint) contained in a nucleus that looks like a dark field of stGood & Evil is a good example: a cell - like shape with an image of an embryonic figure (just a thick drip of paint) contained in a nucleus that looks like a dark field of stgood example: a cell - like shape with an image of an embryonic figure (just a thick drip of paint) contained in a nucleus that looks like a dark field of stars.

Better than at MoMA, in these paintings you can see the birth of Pollock's signature drips and his particular method of building and moulding paint.

Inspired by Pollock's pouring and dripping of paint, as well as by the watercolors she herself had produced the previous summer, Frankenthaler's soak - stain technique enabled an entirely new experience of pictorial color: fresh, breathing, disembodied, exhilarating in its unfettered appeal to eyesight alone.

Steir is probably best known for large - scale abstract canvases that suggest cascading waterfalls, each the consequence of a calculated system of brushing, dripping, and splattering paint.

The drip paintings of the Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock are among the best - known paintings of the 20th century.

The Abstract Expressionist, Jackson Pollock, is most well - known for his large - scale «all - over» paintings that he painted by laying raw canvases on the floor and pouring house paint directly from cans or dripping it from sticks while engaged in almost dance - like rhythmical movement around the canvas.

Yet the American painter is actually best known for his abstract drip paintings.

Major Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock, dubbed «Jack the Dripper» by Time magazine in 1956, is best known for his large «action» or drip paintings of 1947 — 52, formed by pouring and manipulating liquid paint atop canvases set on the floor.

Other paintings look so much better framed, when the drips of the sides of the canvas aren't part of the work.

The drip paintings of Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock are among the best - known paintings of the 20th century.

It must be emphasized that this was a wide movement, encompassing differing styles, including (as mentioned) works that were either semi - or non-abstract, as well as those characterized by the way paint was applied, such as Jackson Pollock's paintings (dripped and poured), and Willem de Kooning's works (gestural brushwork).

Modern Masters: 20th Century Icons from the Albright - Knox Art Gallery will bring together about 70 iconic artworks by Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Georgia O'Keeffe, Salvador Dalí, Frida Kahlo, and Andy Warhol as well as one of Jackson Pollock's finest drip paintings.

Using a method that involves dripping and pouring paint as well as often stitching and adhering fragments and strips from earlier paintings onto larger canvases, Bowling creates works in the Color Field idiom that are noted for their optical and surface complexities.

The canvas is covered in a variable black and white pattern in which the acrylic paint is mottled, marbled and dripped in cloudy formations, as well as dragged in broad horizontal and vertical bands.

Alex Prager's well - dressed ladies are lost in thought as well, and the photos live in a psychological space that sometimes becomes Lynchian, while Stella Vine's dripping, big - eyed paintings of Princess Di or Lisa Lopes humanize celebrity.

C is an England - born Australian artist best known for his urban narrative paintings and for his drip painting style.

Taylor's paintings are some of the best that he has exhibited, with flat expanses of white and browns interrupted by drips and smudges.

A short biography of Jackson Pollock, an art icon of Abstract Expressionism best known for his drip paintings, as well as his battle with alcoholism.

This sense of imperfection, as evinced in the drips, occasionally unevenly applied paint, and subtly ragged edges of shapes, manifests Piffaretti's sense of humor as well as his keen engagement with the discourses of art history and philosophy.

Languid drips, tiny pointillist specks and large globs of transparent resin and bright paint, as well as smooth passages of colour added and subtracted with the face and edge of a palette knife, all create this magical scene.

His well - known masterpiece featured a dripping paint that was placed on a canvas that was left on the floor.

Her early work was loosely associated with Conceptual Art and Minimalism, however, she is best known for her abstract dripped, splashed and poured «Waterfall» paintings, which she started in the 1980s, and for her later site - specific wall drawings.

Jacqueline Humphries is making the best work of her life («Jacqueline Humphries ``, until 16 December at Greene Naftali), with exhilarating paintings in which she constructs gesture with relief, utilizing the marks of the keyboard, each «drip» a letter, punctuation point or emoji.

He was well known for his unique style of drip painting.

From 1947, the year he began to paint with aluminum and commercial paints, and to «drip» as well as brush his pigment on canvas, Pollock strained against the limits of oil painting.

«When starting a painting, I try to be crazy and paint with whatever feels good at the moment: old acrylic test paint, rollers, squeegees, stir sticks, wire mesh, oil sticks, and lots of smearing and dripping.

In her best - known series, Waterfall (1987 - ongoing), Steir has created paintings evocative of flowing water that are both product of and witness to her technique of freely pouring and dripping paint on the canvas.

Despite the formal and morphological variety on display at MoMA — from photos by Aaron Siskind to sculptures by Ibram Lassaw to Jackson Pollock's drip paintings — the work is unified by the sense that these are individuals engaged in an intense existential battle with their own psyches as well as the history of art.

Though with her early work Steir was loosely allied with Conceptual Art and Minimalism, she is best - recognized for dripped, splashed and poured «waterfall» paintings which she first started in the late 1980s.

Although Jackson Pollock is best known for the drip paintings he created between 1947 and 1950, he also worked with the less gestural medium of collage, a means of expression that requires careful planning and hardly corresponds with his image as an «action painter.»

Just make sure you clean the tile very well before you paint, also... Breakthrough dries SUPER fast so running or drips shouldn't be an issue.

«It's way better than painting with a brush, which can cause blobs and drips in the grooves of the door profile, and they'll look like new.»

Well the paint was so thick that as I rolled it on, it was dripping - on my hair!

Remember that it is always better to paint in lighter layers for a more even coverage and to avoid drips.

(and I had to laugh as I share your paint clothes style — and we handle paint drips the same, as well!)

I've used polyurethane over chalk paint and polycrylic (messy to work with too many drips etc), but not wax, from what I've read it isn't the best choice for a high traffic area or piece?