This colour is carried by fluent
crosshatched brushstrokes that set up a visual dance on the surface of the painting, on what is technically called the picture plane.
Following a sojourn in Italy, Guston adopted a mode of gestural abstract painting — dubbed Abstract Impressionism — in which blurry planes and shapes float in a field of
crosshatched brushstrokes.
Not exact matches
His
crosshatches resemble painted
brushstrokes yet arise from a far more physical process of mark making with crayon on panel.