Sentences with phrase «famous drip paintings»

Pollock took up figuration again after his famous drip paintings.

Here on BBC Arts we take an in - depth look at the influence of abstract art on modern design with renowned designer Peter Saville; saxophonist Soweto Kinch explores how jazz embraced abstract through its album cover iconography; Alastair Sooke talks technique as he gets inside the world of abstract master Jackson Pollock, finding out just how challenging it is to create one of his famous drip paintings.

These paintings followed the famous drip paintings that brought him to national notoriety.

For four years, Pollock had electrified the art world with his now - famous drip paintings, paintings that fascinate or confuse people with their multi-colored webs of lines and splashes.

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.

Jackson Pollock narrates his artistic process as he demonstrates the creation of one of his famous drip paintings.

Both artists employ Galkyd to layer their paintings, a medium that Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock used with oil color to create his famous drip paintings.

Not exact matches

Greenberg, art critic Michael Fried, and others have observed that the overall feeling in Pollock's most famous works — his drip paintings — read as vast fields of built - up linear elements often reading as vast complexes of similar valued paint skeins that read as all over fields of color and drawing, and are related to the mural - sized late Monets that are constructed of many passages of close valued brushed and scumbled marks that also read as close valued fields of color and drawing that Monet used in building his picture surfaces.

It wasn't until four years later that Jackson Pollock began working on the drip paintings that made him famous around the world.

For those interested in discovering the home of artists Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner and seeing Pollock's art studio and famous paint drips, The Pollock - Krasner House offers one - hour guided tours by appointment only on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays between 11 am.

From 1960 to 1963 she executed her famous Tirs (Shoot) pieces, which drip like Pollocks but which de Saint Phalle produced by shooting a rifle at balloons of colorful paint mounted on white canvases.

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.

Ultimately, he became internationally famous for his experimental dripped and poured paintings.

Considered one of the greatest and most famous American painters, Jackson Pollock was a performer of sorts, an artist who dripped and smeared his paint onto the laying canvas through a series of movements and gestures, thus giving life to Action Painting.

The Pollocks will hang in the RA's biggest room with other works, including examples of the drip paintings Pollock is most famous for.

Hans Namuth's photographs of Pollock in the act of making his drip paintings became almost as famous as the artworks themselves.

When Pollock was painting his canvases, with his famous brush dripping, the important aspect of his art was the action of painting, the movements of the artist on the canvas, the energy of every drop of paint (read our article about Pollock here).

I was reading an article recently about Jackson Pollock, an abstract artist famous for his «drip paintings,» and I became intrigued when I found out his art falls under the category of «process art.»

Her paintings are colourful and she uses the dripping technique, made famous by Jackson Pollock.

Visitors are greeted by Pollock's «The She - Wolf,» a vivid, semiabstract, semi-representational painting that predates his famous «drip» style.

Action painting or Gestural Abstraction (that made Pollock famous) is a style used in painting — a style that emphasizes the process of making art, often through a variety of techniques that include dripping, dabbing, smearing, and even flinging paint onto the surface of the canvas.

Her Little Image series which she began in 1946 incorporated dots and drips of paint which inspired Pollock's now famous action painting of the same period.

Pollock's early work was figurative, becoming increasingly abstract over time until the «drip» paintings of the early 1950s, for which he is most famous.

That epochal show opened with one of Pollock's drip paintings beside which a videotape of Hans Namuth's famous film of Pollock painting played continuously.

Hans Hofmann (1880 - 1966) Gestural expressionist, colourist, pioneered «drip - painting»; famous art teacher.