Not exact matches
I wanted a smooth finish, so I started
fresh by stripping all the old
layers of paint using Citri - strip.
Carved words, like a prisoner's inside a cell, through
layers of peeling yellow, then blue, then white, the
fresh words sliced through decades
of paint: Kill me now.
These
paintings are the product
of a labor - intensive process known as frottage, in which
paint is first applied to the canvas before the artist methodically alternates between scraping off existing
layers and adding
fresh coats.
Where Hook's process is heavily
layered and labored, Emily McGrew's canvases are bright,
fresh and immediate, their feminine subjects
painted from a combination
of photography and the artist's embellished memories.
I was contemplating an untitled
painting aswirl with cobalt blue and white when a
fresh wave
of aroma swept by — an unexpected
layer of meaning revealing itself.
And once the taught skin
of the
painting is finally broken, — sliced open to reveal a
fresh layer of shinier copper beneath, a question
of the satisfaction
of drives might follow, or
of their objectification.
The title
of the present work For Picabia perhaps references Stella's «preoccupation with wiping out Cubism, whose vestigial illusions
of luminous,
layered spaces he hoped to replace with another,
fresher kind
of spatial construction» (Robert Rosenblum quoted in L. Rubin, Frank Stella
Paintings 1958 to 1965: A Catalogue Raisonne, New York, 1986, p. 11).
These two artists bring
fresh meditations on the poignancy
of geometric resonance, von Wiegand with a 1955 collage based on the Golden Section and Inoue with a small
painting from 2010, a densely
layered glowing blue grid
of deceptive simplicity.
The title
of the present work For Picabia perhaps references Stella's «preoccupation with wiping out Cubism, who's vestigial illusions
of luminous,
layered spaces he hoped to replace with another,
fresher kind
of spatial construction» (Robert Rosenblum quoted in L. Rubin, Frank Stella
Paintings 1958 to 1965: A Catalogue Raisonne, New York, 1986, p. 11).
So when we sat down to decide what our next
Layers theme was going to be we realized that the answer may be staring us in the face — why not take our best Obox Themes and give them a
fresh coat
of paint and a brand new foundation?
This homely living room is a «Labour»
of love, with its
fresh -
painted deep crimson walls,
layered furnishings and carefully - placed accessories.