Not exact matches
Directed by
Mark Waters (Freaky Friday; Ghosts of Girlfriends Past; Mean Girls), who
paints his story upon the tableau of New York City with featured tourist stops including the Guggenheim Museum, the
Flat Iron Building, and (naturally) Central Park, the cinematic Popper is no longer a poor house painter like his literary counterpart.
By pairing the first - an abstract
painting whose
flat forms are schematic and derived from
markings observed on a soccer field with the second - a silkscreened canvas depicting a nearly identical
painting photographed at an angle, Uglow creates a visual experience charged with the potential of both abstraction and representation.
Now
painting could show itself as it is,
marks on an essentially
flat canvas.
A series of lithographs, like Pet Stains, 1990, hark back to Synthetic Cubism: puddles of black
paint mark a stack of trompe l'oeil newspapers so as to create a tension between
flat representation and illusionistic space.
(1)
Mark Bradford The World Is
Flat, 2007 Billboard paper, photomechanical reproductions, acrylic gel medium, twine, wrapping paper, carbon paper, acrylic
paint, and additional mixed media on canvas 101 1/4 x 142 1/2 inches Collection of Rachel and Jean - Pierre Lehmann Photo: Bruce White (2)
Mark Bradford Potable Water, 2005 Billboard paper, photomechanical reproductions, acrylic gel medium, and additional mixed media 130 x 196 inches Collection of Hunter Gray Photo: Bruce White (3)
Mark Bradford Untitled (Shoe), 2003 Billboard paper, acrylic gel medium, and additional mixed media on canvas 30 x 31 1/2 inches The Speyer Family Collection Photo: Bruce White (4)
Mark Bradford Pinocchio Is On Fire, 2010 Multimedia installation Dimensions variable Courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York Photo: Sven Kahns
Yet even in those
paintings which
flatter, especially those of women, their boldly coloured, enticing lips dangle question
marks about their integrity.
The play between various lines, the use of expressive
marks and the drip of the
paint in comparison to the repetitive rhythm or creation of a
flat and decorative surface, all covey a different understanding of the world and the different, in a sense, sound of the visual language.
Reed: Often in new
paintings I'm using horizontal brush
marks made with the
painting on the wall showing the effects of gravity and also working on them
flat, on Leo Steinberg's flatbed — no gravity.
Joe Reihsen's deceptively
flat - textured
paintings explore the differences — or possible lack thereof — between analog and digital
mark - making.
Mark Grotjahn: «
Painted Sculpture» (through Oct. 29) This talented painter's pitting of modernist abstraction and Expressionism against the crucial influences of African art is best when he pits oil
paint against bronze, in this case casts of cardboard boxes for
flat - screen TVs.
«On black tarpaulin lying
flat on the rooftop, capital letters in white
paint implore, «HELP... read more... «
Mark Bradford's live feed in LA»
The
paint texture,
marks and subtle variations in color, and bleeds / drips / rips of
paint similarly create their own interference, breaking the illusion of depth and space within the pattern, and bringing the eye back to the surface of the
paint, the «skin» covering the
flat canvas.
(
Flat - footed, as in an intentional awkwardness to the handling of the medium best exemplified by Philip Guston's return to figurative abstraction — his thick, deliberate
marks forced critics to talk about things like «the speed» of his
paint as they tried to understand his aesthetic decisions.)
These
paintings consist of
flat expanses of slate and gun - metal gray
paint with a surface like suede and animated by graffitilike
marks in white.
The New York Times art critic John Canaday was highly critical, but Clement Greenberg proclaimed abstract expressionism in general and Jackson Pollock in particular, as the epitome of aesthetic value, enthusiastically supporting Pollock's work on formalistic grounds as the best
painting of its day and the heir to an art tradition - stretching back to the Cubism of Pablo Picasso, the cube - like pictures of Paul Cézanne and the Water Lily series of Claude Monet - whose defining characteristic is the making of
marks on a
flat surface.
In particular he was a fan of the all - over action -
painting style of Jackson Pollock, and the flat surfaces of the Colour Field Painting movement, embodied by Mark Rothko and
painting style of Jackson Pollock, and the
flat surfaces of the Colour Field
Painting movement, embodied by Mark Rothko and
Painting movement, embodied by
Mark Rothko and others.
Painting will no longer create space as a theatre; it will give space itself a theatre.5 The
paint will meet the surface sensuously, In a broad,
flat engagement of the palm, by fingertip daubs, and through varieties of clawing and caressing.6
Painting will always tremble, but very precisely.7 There will be no difference in the world between planning airily away from the canvas and actually taking your brush and making the first
mark.8 The revolution will be
painted.
The stacked
paintings are
marked by planes of very
flat colour and chequered pattern, the planes are often misaligned, vying against each other to be in front.
In the latter these
painted grounds offer a great deal of information, and create a
flatter plane where the stage beneath consumes the
marks and shapes above, only their faint traces visible.
TCOP: Ultimately, though, you want the
paint to look
flat — no thick
paint, no obvious
marks.
I always use
flat paint and a standard color so I can foam roller over the
marks in 2 hours.
Chalk
paint alone has a
flat finish that would
mark up from footprints, etc very fast.
The only problem I can see is that since chalk
paint is
flat — you will see every scuff
mark and footprint and not be able to clean them off without scrubbing.
If you leave chalk
paint unsealed, it will be
marked up in days since it is a very
flat paint.
Flat paint is ideal for high - traffic areas and ceilings where irregularities and lap
marks may exist.
I like the look of
flat paint and since most scuffs and
marks have to be
painted over anyway, the
flat paint is easier to spot -
paint because it doesn't show where I
painted.
I've
painted a few rooms but I still have the builder's
flat paint in many areas and it
marks incredibly easily.