Sentences with phrase «directly against the canvas»
Done with oil sticks pressed directly against the canvas, a method Mr. Goldberg chose some years ago over brushing with paint, they are energetic productions based on what he called a «quasi grid,» with patchy squares of color intersected at random by strong diagonals.
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Other records set at the sale included $ 1.1 million for Brazilian artist Candido Portinari's oil on canvas titled Navio negreiro, 1950, against an estimate of $ 700,000 / 900,000 and $ 794,500 for Argentinian artist Emilio Pettoruti, for the oil painting Concierto, 1941, which was estimated at $ 300,000 / 500,000 and had been in the same private collection since it was acquired directly from the artist.
He draws lines on the canvas with a spray gun and then, directly after, wipes them out again with a rag drenched in solvent — to give a new picture in which clear lines have to stand their own against smeared surfaces.