Sentences with phrase «drips of paint reference»

Many works illustrate artifacts of the imaging process — white borders on the canvas suggest cropping, drips of paint reference scratches on the surface of the negative — which the artist describes as the «abstract consequence» of the photo.

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Starting from an abstracted image of a waterfall — paint which has been left to literally drip down across the painting's surface — Steir's paintings borrow from the vertical compositions of Chinese landscape painting and reference the metaphysical power of the waterfall as a symbol connecting heaven and earth.

Using spray paint on top of paint brushed marks, you can draw a line of references from Pollocks dripped paint (similarly applied from a distance), to modern day graffiti.

Using De Kooning licks and Rauschenberg drips, his work splices references to famous 19th - and 20th - century paintings into scenes that depict real people and situations: William Burroughs in exile in Tangiers, the mysterious death of weapons inspector David Kelly in the Oxfordshire countryside, the Greenham Common protest, the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Crisscrossing these shapes are yellow drips and drips off drips painted with graffiti acrylic that form a linear web, referencing currents of air or electrical energy.

The artist referenced Jackson Pollockʼs drip paintings — made 20 miles away in Springs — in the work through the substitution of saliva and dribbles from wildlife for Pollock's choreographed drips of paint, according to exhibition information.