Sentences with phrase «fling paint»

Pollock would pour and fling the paint, using sticks and knives, onto an unstretched canvas which had been tacked to a hard wall or floor.

Briefly: Kanter, though he does not fling paint like Pollock, uses calligraphic black and white marks against the white, non-negative void; Sloane continues his Herculean examination of the darkest, densest fields of early de Kooning; Paulson, darker still, studies the lines between the figure, the landscape, and oblivion (Thompson) like disappearing tracks in the sand.

For instance, it often confuses examples of abstract expressionism and action paintings, in which artists drip or fling paint and step on the canvas.

I flow, scrape, and fling paint and use various tools to create beautiful, lively bursts of color with unique textures and patterns.

He flings paint on the frame like it's going out of style and this time he does it not just with whimsy but with whimsy in character as we follow a plane of eccentric characters going through a weird shared moment as they all are currently on drugs and probably about to die as the plane can not land and is running low on gas.

Three Hirst «spin paintings» are included in the exhibition, because, as the gallery explains, they «point to the foundation of gestural abstraction, which places significance on techniques such as dripping, dabbing or flinging paint onto the surface of a canvas.

As the term says for itself, Action Painting 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 on to the surface of the canvas.

Hoyland often made paintings from the inside, standing on the canvas and flinging paint around, sometimes straight from the can, in the manner of Jackson Pollock, and here this practice is visible at its most emphatic.

Picasso and the Cubists lived to be deified; so did the Abstract Expressionists, the loonies who flung paint at bare walls.

They show him as not simply pouring or flinging paint but struggling to find a new path, a way beyond what had seemed to be the absolute visual truth of Abstract Expressionism.

Collectors and critics had only recently gotten their heads around Pollock's revolutionary splatters and his new «performative» aspect of painting where a viewer could sense where Pollock flung paint, where he let it dribble, where he poured it straight from the can.

He now created paintings not by applying a brush to a primed canvas on a wall but by flinging paint at a raw canvas on the floor.

McCarthy starts things off as a painter and with an assault on painting: he flings paint against the wall with his own clothing and with all his might.

His use of active staining and flung paint in a work in acrylic and gouache of 1973 results in a radiant and open image, demonstrating the influence on Francis of the art of Japan.

He did not fit in, says Sarah Rich, with all the cooler - than - cool artists flinging paint at canvases — or dripping it, or standing in it.

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.

A collection of richly textured works, which blend gestural painting, figurative drawing and collage on everything from small pieces of cardboard to boards measuring nearly 4 x 6 feet, the exhibition is an audacious debut in a city where the shadows of Abstract Expressionism still loom large whenever an artist splatters, drips, scrapes, pours, or otherwise flings paint at or on a surface to make an image.

Dropping pieces of cut paper onto a surface and gluing them down where they lay; dripping or flinging paint across a canvas; letting the progressive decay of organic materials determine a composition; and flipping coins to compose a musical scores — these are some of the processes used by artists included in the volume that both tap into the creative potential of chance and control its operation.

While certainly from his famed period where he dripped and flung paint onto canvases in highly complex patterns, this is a work like no other.

Jackson Pollock's status as a household name hinges on the radical Abstract Expressionist paintings he made between 1946 and 1952 — particularly the image of the artist working, hunched over in his studio, flinging paint from a bucket onto a massive canvas on the floor.

The contingency of Damien Hirst's spin paintings point to the foundation of gestural abstraction, which places significance on techniques such as dripping, dabbing or flinging paint onto the surface of a canvas.

«I am convinced,» Kaprow wrote in his famous essay The Legacy of Jackson Pollock, «that to grasp a Pollock's impact properly, we must be acrobats, constantly shuttling between identification with the hands and body that flung the paint.»

Artist Eddie Martinez flings paint on a painting after sanding it in his studio (Greenpoint, Brooklyn, 02.23.12).

Jackson Pollock flung paint and turned the canvas into a form of choreographic record in a restricted palette.

Not exact matches

Troughs of sunlight angle into the oratory like green and pink bolts of cloth grandly flung down from the high, painted windows.

There was a story that went with the volcano painting: Çatalhöyük was the center of a far - flung trade in volcanic obsidian, Mellaart said.

Now how do you turn your fling with bamboo and low - VOC paint into a full - fledged, all - out green relationship with real significance?

Once influenced by a fleeting fling with an artist who wore a thrifted blazer he had hand painted dollar signs on the back and sleeves, I no longer feel the need to make a statement everyday.

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After one of Gustave's former flings bequeaths a valuable Renaissance painting to him in her will, her discontented family, headed by Adrien Brody, do everything in their power to deprive Gustave of the prized, «Boy with Apple».

The fenders also bulge outwards to protect the paint from the mud and stones the 31 - inch Goodyear Duratrac off - road tires are going to fling.

Having missed out on The Unfinished Swan when the game made its debut on the PlayStation 3 in 2012, when Giant Sparrow announced that their paint - flinging, first - person adventure game was coming to PlayStation Vita it left me with no excuses not to give it a go.

It's left to the player to squeeze the trigger, and by doing so flinging a ball of black paint at whatever happens to be in front of you.

As a result, the full - flung poetic beauty of these recent paintings shows that the artist is continuing to advance upon her achievements, deftly alluding to both Western and Chinese sources without succumbing to either tradition.

Preparations for the «The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris» required Martin to travel to far - flung museums all over Canada.

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.

Is too much paint being flung around?

John Ruskin, the nineteenth - century critic, famously accused James McNeill Whistler of flinging a pot of paint at the public.

Profoundly influenced by Chinese painting traditions and techniques — especially the marks of the eighth - and ninth - century Yi - pin «ink - splashing» (or «flung ink») painters — mentorships from John Cage and Agnes Martin, and the harmony between man and nature espoused by Taoist philosophy, Steir considers elemental forces active participants in her work, intentionally removing herself from the action and allowing gravity, time, and the environment to determine the work's result.

Many of the works in this show were painted from locales as diverse and far flung as New Mexico, Jordan, France, Germany, and the United Arab Emirates.

Lavender Mist was painted in Pollock's studio on Long Island when he had transitioned to his signature technique of pouring, flinging, and dripping paint onto unstretched canvas laid on the floor.

Still a professor of painting at Yale, for this Tuesday Evenings presentation Storr talks about learning on the job as a way of life during a period of extraordinarily complex, rapid, and far - flung changes in the «art world» — now a polycentric, culturally diverse, and ever - morphing economic and politic alternate reality — as well as the abiding values that draw people to art and into an «art community» primarily inhabited by makers of various kinds.

Dripping, smearing, slathering, and flinging lots of paint on to the canvas (often an unprimed canvas) is another hallmark of this style of art.

Pollock saw her work with critic Clement Greenberg in 1946 at Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of This Century Gallery and the next year Pollock began flinging and pouring paint.

Jackson Pollock's fling: «Jackson Pollock, throwing paint around, when paint left the brush for the first time in a Jackson Pollock painting.»

This section of newer galleries and younger artists held no surprises other than a predilection for abstract painting and the far - flung geographies from whence these originate.

Now that painting is back from the dead, an awful lot of paint is getting flung around.

The works have been gathered from far - flung private and public collections from around the world, comprising over 150 paintings, sculpture, and photographs.

In 1877, John Ruskin derided Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket after the artist, James McNeill Whistler, showed it at Grosvenor Gallery: [30] «I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.»

Flinging her arms and legs wide, the painting can barely contain her, any more than her little dress can: while her face is doll - like and her wrists dressed with pompoms, the skater's body has the full solidity of a woman of a certain age.