Sentences with phrase «colored pigments suspended»

He first paints six or seven layers of different - colored pigments suspended in water on one canvas.

Not exact matches

Nara paints by adding and removing pigment until he reaches his desired effect: a canvas made up of suspended colors.

Tracts of color are dragged across the canvas using a squeegee, so that the various strains of malleable, semi-liquid pigment suspended in oil are fused together and smudged first into the canvas, and then layered on top of each other as the paint strata accumulate to bring color and textural juxtapositions.

Relying on the thinner quality of acrylic paint compared to oil, Nara creates each painting by adding and removing pigment until he reaches his desired effect: a canvas made up of suspended hues that allows the figure to emerge through layers of color, inviting the viewer to stand still and enter a moment of contemplation.

Using dethreaded burlap canvases, painted with pigmented ashes and soil, Emblema created works that suspend color between the viewer and the wall on a translucent scrim.

In any case, both of them think in terms of color and pigment suspended in a physical, material matter.

In these works, Joel Shapiro extends the investigations of his recent suspended sculptures [Pace Gallery, 2010; Museum Ludwig, 2011; Rice University Art Gallery, 2012] that explore the dispersion of form and color in space, exchanging the three - dimensional space of the gallery for the two - dimensional plane of the paper, and industrial cordage and pigment - soaked wood forms for aqueous eruptions of line and color in gouache and charcoal.

For example, Splendor (2001), evokes a sense of glimpsing the cross section of dozens of crushed stones and gems packed tightly together, the universe shortly after the Big Bang, a picture of dark matter moving across time and space, a light - sensitive view of a subatomic world, dozens of different pigments suspended in a translucent material, rivulets of calligraphically inflected color swirling slowly.

All paints comprise two elements: a pigment, which provides the color, and a binder, in which the powdered pigment is suspended.