His style is also noted for its fluidity, which he emphasized through the use of
enamel house paint (ripolin), polyvinyl acetate and acrylic painting.
Their black stripes executed with
enamel house paint were a critical step in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Minimalism.
«Tiznit,» made with white
enamel house paint and pencil and crayon, with gouges and scratches in the surface, was named for a town in Morocco that he had visited, and the painting's primitivist shapes were inspired by tribal pieces he saw at the ethnographic museum in Rome, as well as by artists like Dubuffet, de Kooning and Franz Kline.
The industrial - strength oils pick up where
enamel house paint for Jackson Pollock left off.
Here, between 1947 and 1951, Pollock made his famous drip paintings, abandoning the easel, laying canvases horizontally on the floor and applying ordinary
enamel house paint with the sweep of his arm.
These are block print paintings, using
enamel house paint and rigid insulation board as the printing blocks.
Not exact matches
His seminal «Black
Paintings» (1958 - 60) consist of parallel bands made with a
house - painter's brush and
enamel.
Cueva de El Castillo, Puente Viesgo, Spain Panel of Hands, photo: Pedro Saura Cueva de El Castillo, Panel of Hands, photo: Pedro Saura Cueva de El Castillo, Corridor of Disks, photo: Pedro Saura Hologram, Museo Nacional de Altamira, Santillana del Mar, Spain, photo: Estudio Nómada Inside Conellante, Matienzo, Spain, 2010, photo: Randee Silv El Pendo, entrance, 2010, photo: Randee Silv Pech Merle, Cabrerets, France, photo: Steve Errede, Dept. of Physics, University of Illinois Airbrushing, photo: Don Hitchcock, Don's Maps Finger Flutings, Grotte de Rouffignac, France, photo: Kevin Sharpe & Leslie Van Gelder Untitled, Alice Rahon, 1945, watercolor, 10 x 8», photo: Creighton - Davis GallerY L'Enclume, Wolfgang Paalen, 1952, oil & fumage, 53 x 74», photo: Artsy.net Message, No. 8, Mathias Goeritz, 1959, gold
paint, perforated steel, pushpins on board, photo: Arevalo Gallery Conference Poster 1950, Willi Baumeister, Centro de Arte Riena Sofia, Madrid, photo: Randee Silv Altamira, Joan Miró, 1958, lithograph, photo: Quittenbaum Auction
House, Munich Joan Miró & Josep Llorens Artigas, Altamira, 1957, photo: Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain Patterns of Aranjuez, 1955, N. H. Stubbing, oil on canvas, 78 x 69 ″, photo: England & Co, London Cave of Black, Herman Cherry, 1954,
enamel / coffee grinds on canvas, 61 x49 ″, David Findlay Gallery, photo: Randee Silv Untitled, Denny Winters, 1982, photo: Gamage Auction
House, Rockland, Maine Before the Caves, Helen Frankenthaler, 1958, oil on unprimed canvas, 102 x 104 ″, photo: Berkeley Art Museum The Homely Protestant, Robert Motherwell, 1946, oil on masonite, 98 X 48 ″, photo: Metropolitian Museum Cave Study (Perigord Region), Elaine de Kooning 1983, segment, photo: Artvalue.com Lascaux Cave, France, closeup of Megalaceros section, photo: Wikimedia commons Untitled 1963, David Smith, spray
enamel on paper, 14 x 19 ″, photo: David Smith Estate Chauvet Cave, Vallon - Pont - d'Arc, France, photo: Dr. Jean Clottes Exhibition poster, Miguel Barceló, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, 1995 photo: Michel Fillon Gallery, Paris Stages of Trance, photo: David Lewis - Williams, Inside the Neolithic Mind Pareidolia, Conellante Cave, 2010, Matienzo, Spain, photo: Randee Silv Blackness, Conellante Cave, 2010, Matienzo, Spain, photo: Randee Silv
When he moved to New York, Stella was still
painting houses to pay rent, and continued to use the
house painter's brush and
enamel when making his Black
Paintings (1958 - 60).
Her
House Paintings (also known as the Addresses series) were painted from 1976 - 1978 and represented her own house and the houses of her friends that she painted in an archetypal yet unique style, using the grid of enameled steel plates that she often
House Paintings (also known as the Addresses series) were
painted from 1976 - 1978 and represented her own
house and the houses of her friends that she painted in an archetypal yet unique style, using the grid of enameled steel plates that she often
house and the
houses of her friends that she
painted in an archetypal yet unique style, using the grid of
enameled steel plates that she often uses.
Bartlett has been a commercial success since the 1970s when her highly acclaimed artwork, Rhapsody (1975 - 76, collection Museum of Modern Art), a
painting based on geometry and the figural motifs of
house, tree, mountain, and sea on 987 gridded,
enameled steel plates was shown in May 1976 at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York.
Shaw's landscape
paintings, rendered entirely in Humbrol
enamel paint — which is normally used to decorate model aeroplanes — depict the postwar Coventry
housing estate where he grew up.
Many different
painting techniques have been used in making sculpture, including tempera, oil
painting, gilding,
house paint, aerosol,
enamel and sandblasting.
His Black Stripe
Paintings (1959), comprised of a regulated sequence of stripes
painted in
enamel with the broad strokes of a
house painters brush, debuted in the Sixteen Americans exhibition at Museum of Modern Art in the same year.
WILLIAMSBURG BROOKLYN PUBLIC
HOUSING PROJECT CONCEALED SWINDON CALL AND RESPONSE, 2010 Steel, aluminum, acrylic and
enamel paint
Jennifer Bartlett,
House: Spatter
Painting, 1998, oil over silk - screen grid on baked
enamel and steel plates, 77 × 77 inches.
Published to coincide with the show The Sleepers at Pallant
House Gallery, Chichester, and ahead of a series of important exhibitions and commissions, this beautifully designed and illustrated volume presents all the major works from her career to date, from small - scale intimate
paintings in oil and
enamel to ambitious high - profile public commissions and architectural projects.
Keyser's Sad White Music, 2007, an orb of
house paint on a sawdust - encrusted canvas support, and Smithson, 2007, a collage of
enamel and paillettes on a blown - up 1970s copy of Smithsonian Magazine with a rope - harnessed rain - forest biologist swinging above a verdant canopy on its cover that becomes the
painting's ground, exemplify both operations.
The
paint — usually
enamel, which he finds more pliable — is applied by dipping a small
house brush or stick or trowel into the can and then, by rapid movements of the wrist, arm and body, quickly allowing it to fall in weaving rhythms over the surface.
Wool's 8 - foot - high
enamel - on - aluminum
painting, offered by an unnamed European collection, reads «If you can't take a joke you can get the fuck out of my
house» in the artist's trademark black block letters.
For the MACBA, Meyer designed a building shaped as a large box, clad in white
enamel -
painted steel panels, flanked by a circular pavilion on its west end, which accommodates the visitors» entrance and service spaces, and a semi-detached wing on the east end,
housing additional gallery spaces and staff offices.
He depicts the Coventry
housing estate where he grew up and uses Humbrol
enamel paint, the type used to decorate model planes in Airfix kits, as another reminder of his childhood.
The catalyst that sparked its emergence was Neiman's acquisition, one day in 1953, of partially used cans of
enamel paints that were being discarded by the custodian of the apartment
house adjacent to his.
To achieve this soak - stain effect, Frankenthaler would mix
house paint,
enamel, tube oil
paints, and either turpentine or kerosene.
After gaining notoriety for her use of
enamel, a high - gloss
paint often applied to
house exteriors, she shifted her focus to oil in 2001, in order to experiment with a more traditional artistic method.
Jennifer Bartlett, Double
House, 1987, Oil on canvas;
enamel on wood, steel,
Painting: 118 x 168,
House: 68 1/2 x 38 x 50.
The later works are a Peter Doig snow scene from 2001 - 02; Whiteread's maquette for her Trafalgar Square commission in 2001 which was a resin cast of the plinth itself; the Hurvin Anderson oil
painting Maracus 111 from 2004; a Conrad Shawcross maquette for his large - scale work Continuum, a three - metre - high sculpture commissioned by the National Maritime Museum; and George Shaw's Ash Wednesday, 8.30 am from 2004 - 05, one of a number of Humbrol
enamel paintings the artist has made over the years of the Coventry
housing estate where he grew up.
Four
enamel paintings on metal, titled Lipservice, Fun
House Mirror (White Series One), Cherrys, and Glory Hole, by Marilyn Minter.
Frick Collection (NYC) One of the finest bijou museums in America, founded by Henry Clay Frick, the Frick museum
houses one of the best compact art collections in the world, featuring oil
paintings, sculpture, porcelain, rare furniture, Limoges
enamel, and Oriental carpets.
As a little backdrop on her history, the gallery notes, «After gaining notoriety for her use of
enamel, a high - gloss
paint often applied to
house exteriors, she shifted her focus to oil in 2001, in order to experiment with a more traditional artistic method.
Kevin and I
painted (and distressed) all their doors at our
house, and we just used a really great primer and two coats of Sherwin - Williams Pro Classic Latex
Enamel on everything.