Not unlike the religious painters of the Renaissance, Hughie O'Donoghue often paints on a monumental scale,
creating huge canvases and charcoal drawings that have reminded some art critics of «the Abstract Expressionism of the fifties in their heroic scale and intention.»
Not exact matches
«Here is a
huge body of work
created by an enormous, original imagination, working in surprising idioms, and a range of materials from
canvas and paint to metallic and mirrored constructions.»
Along with works
created on
huge raw pieces of
canvas, the exhibit included abstract work by the artist, done with ink on mulberry and Japanese paper.
Rejecting all forms of representational art or figuration, they also avoided the gestural abstract expressionist idiom of Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, even though the latter's «action - painting» can be seen as a pioneering attempt to
create an «all - over» field of colour, recalling Monet's
huge water lily
canvases.
* 10 am Megan Wachob, MWMurals will be painting a
HUGE canvas of white & purple home of The Purple Painted Lady (across from front porch where band is) Watch how she
creates something out of nothing.