Not exact matches
His former technique of staining and saturating wet canvases was replaced
by a method in which multiple layers of thick acrylic paint and gels are scumbled, spattered, and built up on the canvas in a
rich impasto.
P07572 COLLAGED CLOTH 1976 Inscribed «Tàpies» bottom right and «25/50» Etching with collage, printed
by J. Barbarà, Barcelona, published
by Maeght Gallery, Barcelona, 24 7/8 × 35 3/4 (63.3 × 90.8) Purchased from Maeght Editeur (Grant - in - Aid) 1981 Lit: op.cit., no. 600 In his prints, Tàpies translates the
rich surface of collage,
impasto and violent or graffiti - like marks of his paintings into graphic terms.
P07570 THE SIEVE 1972 Inscribed «Tàpies» bottom right and «27/75» Etching with embossing, printed and published
by Maeght Editeur, Paris, 25 3/4 × 35 1/8 (65.3 × 89.3) Purchased from Maeght Editeur (Grant - in - Aid) 1981 Lit: Mariuccia Galfetti and Gustavo Gili, Tàpies: Obra Grafica 1947 — 72, Barcelona, 1973, no. 275 In his prints, Tàpies translates the
rich surface of collage,
impasto and violent or graffiti - like marks of his paintings into graphic terms.