Sentences with phrase «drip painting method»

In the confined space of his East Hamptons studio in Long Island, Pollock used the drip painting method as a way of touching base with his subconscious in the spirit of what became known as abstract expressionism.

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Andy Baird bairdstudios.com «My paintings are unique in that they are finely rendered subjects done by dripping paint instead of the traditional methods of «medium and brush.»

Spontaneity, chance, spilling, dripping and brushing became important working methods in the mid to late 1970s and Bowling began referring to his work as «poured paintings».

In the late 1940s, Jackson Pollock (1912 — 1956), now recognized as one of the most important Abstract Expressionist artists, began experimenting with a new method of painting that involved dripping, flinging and pouring paint onto a canvas laid flat directly on the floor.

Her working environment, documented for the first time in a number of new photographs by the artist, will be recreated as installations in the gallery, down to the paint pots, brushes, books and discarded scraps of newspaper that are similarly covered in the spatters, splashes and drips that result from her obsessive painterly method.

Originally partly inspired by Jackson Pollock's drips, this method became a sort of addiction for de Saint Phalle; for her, aiming a gun at a painting became an instantaneous release of her inner violence and anger — at her father, her conservative family values, and male - dominated society — and she was consumed by the process.

Just like Jackson Pollock in his drip paintings or Gerhard Richter in his abstract canvases produced with a squeegee, Bradford employs methods of chance in his work.

While Jackson Pollock is considered as the most well - known painter who created his abstract pieces by dripping paint onto a flat canvas, many before him experimented with this method as well.

In the 1970s she was known for her room - sized installations and later, influenced by the equally vanguard John Cage and Agnes Martin, she struck upon a method of poured painting, where she dripped paint onto paint, creating waterfall - like giant canvases which were stoic and imposing, suspended in time.

Better than at MoMA, in these paintings you can see the birth of Pollock's signature drips and his particular method of building and moulding paint.

Bonnie Maygarden's almost photographic abstract texture is painted with enamel on leather, while Ashley Teamer's painting shows a young artist approaching abstract space using a variety of methods: Paint is poured, dripped, brushed and spread with a palette knife.

But the «drip» paintings also embody a new relationship to surrealist thought — that is, in terms of Pollock's freewheeling method of working.

This method produces monochrome smears, smudges and drips on the once - perfect white canvas, creating something reminiscent of Abstract Expressionist painting.

Initially, going through a semi-abstract phase, as in his series of Map Paintings, 1967 - 1971, where the contours of different continents are stencilled on luscious colour fields, he soon shifted to new working methods of splashing, pouring and dripping paint onto the canvas.

More radical in its execution was the «Oxidation» series (1978): Warhol and his assistants prepared canvases by covering the surfaces with copper paint and then urinated on them to make elegant iridescent designs in yellows, oranges and greens; perhaps they parody the random drip methods of painting used by such Abstract Expressionists as Jackson Pollock.

Using a method that involves dripping and pouring paint as well as often stitching and adhering fragments and strips from earlier paintings onto larger canvases, Bowling creates works in the Color Field idiom that are noted for their optical and surface complexities.

In addition, he also experimented with a crude method of «action - painting» (popularized by Jackson Pollock), in which he dripped paint onto a canvas from a swinging can with holes in the sides.

Within the genre of abstract expressionist painting the purest form of gestural art can be seen in Jackson Pollock's Action Painting - in which paint is applied all - over a horizontal canvas using a «drip, dribble and splash»painting the purest form of gestural art can be seen in Jackson Pollock's Action Painting - in which paint is applied all - over a horizontal canvas using a «drip, dribble and splash»Painting - in which paint is applied all - over a horizontal canvas using a «drip, dribble and splash» method.

Pollock's unconventional methods — dripping, flinging and throwing paint onto an unstretched canvas on the floor — symbolized the degree to which artists could feel free to deviate from traditional approaches.

He developed a method that was later dubbed the «drip technique» in which he dripped paint onto a canvas that was spread out on the floor.

Her signature paint - thinning technique, in which she diluted the oil paint with turpentine, coupled with an entirely revolutionary method of staining (rather than dripping or brushing paint onto) the canvas undoubtedly changed the course of art history and influenced the likes of Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis and Jules Olitski.

Ernst developed a method of using paint dripped from a swinging can.

The method wasn't very different from Pollock's own «drip» technique - he, too, had poured paint onto raw canvas - but what made it so radical in Frankenthaler's hands was that she managed to wrest from it a dazzling sense of color and light.

Following separate experiments by other abstract painters like Hans Hofmann (1880 - 1966) and Lee Krasner (1908 - 84), Pollock himself began employing his splash / drip method in 1947, partly as a result of the surrealists» experience, and also (reportedly) after seeing how Navajo Indians in New Mexico made their sand paintings by sprinkling earth onto the ground to form intricate patterns.

This method of making abstract art involved dripping and smearing the paint onto the canvas in dramatic sweeping gestures.

What is still not sufficiently appreciated is that the twist Frankenthaler gave to Pollock's drip method removed the heavy breathing from abstract expressionism while retaining the closeness to the physical act of painting.