Sentences with phrase «brush against the canvas»
Most of all, she could concentrate on paint, with a gesture as simple as pushing a brush against canvas.
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She may not have pushed painting to its limits, but she pushes a brush against canvas repeatedly, for her signature compositions.
I love the bounce of the brush against the canvas.
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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.