I love the bounce of
the brush against the canvas.
She may not have pushed painting to its limits, but she pushes
a brush against canvas repeatedly, for her signature compositions.
Most of all, she could concentrate on paint, with a gesture as simple as pushing
a brush against canvas.
Not exact matches
The male nude is holding a set of
brushes, and a large
canvas leans
against the doorway of the shed between him and the angel, who appears to be simultaneously inspiring him and posing for him.
«While his contemporaries Donald Judd and Dan Flavin created work that was machine - made, I see Stella as a modern day John Henry, racing
against the machine,
brushing paint from one end of the
canvas to the other and back again, setting an admirable and competitive pace.»
Done with oil sticks pressed directly
against the
canvas, a method Mr. Goldberg chose some years ago over
brushing with paint, they are energetic productions based on what he called a «quasi grid,» with patchy squares of color intersected at random by strong diagonals.
Her process for these works — layering images created by pressing her oil - covered body
against the
canvas surface, and then
brushing or spraying pigment onto it — is one of simultaneous concealing and exposing.
The result was a sort of obstacle course: The narrow pathways had to be navigated with precision to avoid
brushing up
against the
canvases.
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.