[7] However, Driggs» use of «ray
lines» (
slender black
lines that criss - cross the canvas, recall Precisionist works
by Charles Demuth, and particularly his «My Egypt» (also from 1927).
This act of layering — quite physical in its presence — is produced
by the artist's application of
slender intersecting
lines of oil paint that form a scrim on the paintings» surface.