Sentences with phrase «from tubes of paint»

Staring into the painting let's passages into the unconscious open, neurotransmitters squirting out memories like colors from tubes of paint.
If he tries to do so, he might quite easily be as foolish as a man attempting to determine the pattern of a carpet from examination of a single thread, a picture from a tube of paint, or a book from a box of assorted type.

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As soon as I turned 13, she presented me with my first tube of cherry - red lipstick and my first pair of high heels — three - inch heels they were in those days, and I thought them not only uncomfortable but incredibly hideous — and from then on made me go to church thus shod and painted, indistinguishable from the other eighth - graders whose arms hadn't had to be twisted.
Well, we're one sanding block, a tube of caulk, some hardware, and some primer and paint away from being finished with the armoire!
Layers of abstract marks bear the traces of their making as paint is directly applied from the tube, weaving together to create dense, intricate topographies.
Some artists «hide the silverware,» so to speak, to keep expensive expensive brushes or tubes of paint from disappearing.
Benson has their painted drips and shadows, 3D doodles, and the illusion of thick tubes created from parallel brushstrokes and alternating highlights.
In keeping with the breadth of his influences, Hernández employs a variety of techniques including washing, scraping, and working directly from paint tubes.
They remind me, in fact, of Stella's quip that he only wanted to make his paints look as good as when just squeezed from the tube.
As Thierry de Duve has shown, much of Duchamp's work — including his abandonment of painting — followed from the recognition that the can or tube of paint had long been a readymade, industrially produced commodity like any other.10 As Duchamp remarked in 1961, specifically addressing Rauschenberg among others: «Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and readymade products, we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are «Readymades aided» — and also works of assemblage.»
Slender wisps of brightly - colored «ribbons» of color applied directly with a lyrical, swooping brush are the predominant forms, rendered in primary colors applied from tube paints on his palette with brushes, rather than the frothy oil paints de Kooning concocted just a few years earlier.
Scribbled paint strokes blur the punchlines of comics, drips of white paint collide with a thick red line squeezed right from the paint tube, and bits of headlines such as «Dandruff may be the beginning of baldness» jump out amid abstract patches of pink, red, and yellow.
The paint can be troweled, squeezed from the tube, diluted into a wash, or pressed on with a sheet of paper and pulled off.
From the Sun to Zürich, 2016, anchors the installation: it is among the largest examples from the series of painted steel tube sculptures Bove refers to as «glyphs,» whose curving forms could alternately suggest a cosmological spiral, an ancient hieroglyphic language, or a wayward nooFrom the Sun to Zürich, 2016, anchors the installation: it is among the largest examples from the series of painted steel tube sculptures Bove refers to as «glyphs,» whose curving forms could alternately suggest a cosmological spiral, an ancient hieroglyphic language, or a wayward noofrom the series of painted steel tube sculptures Bove refers to as «glyphs,» whose curving forms could alternately suggest a cosmological spiral, an ancient hieroglyphic language, or a wayward noodle.
Heavily painted, pigments are applied in a variety of ways, including brushstrokes, drips, impasto, and squeezed directly from the tube.
These consist of crushed metal (sourced from new industrial steel tubing, the cutting - room floor parts of previous works, or found scrap metal) with surfaces that are either left as - is — in the case of the raw, rusted found pieces — or painted with light - absorbing, velvety car paint.
In the 1990s he created a number of series based on a configuration of circles, using oil paint squeezed directly from the tube.
Zipp combines a range of forms - from aluminium paintings to electric candles, oversized conical ear tubes to photographs of life - sized dolls - to transport us into his visionary world.
Using minimal means — paint straight from the tube, applied meticulously with a palette knife — and a focused selection of colors, Josef Albers's sustained, serial investigation into rhythm, mood, and spatial movement is explored in this lavishly produced catalogue that looks solely at his respective grey and yellow paintings, exploring two distinct color palettes pervasive to his oeuvre.
In the 1950s, Riopelle developed his well - known, mature style of creating large, colour mosaic paintings executed with a palette knife and by squeezing colors onto the canvas directly from the tube.
Bold and muscular brushstrokes contrast with the faint lines of a spray can and the rich texture of paint squeezed directly from the tube to the canvas.
In the 1950s, Riopelle developed his well - known, mature style of creating large, colour mosaic paintings executed with a palette knife and by squeezing colours onto the canvas directly from the tube.
These collaged elements — along with images of pillows and a detail from a Baroque relief — are sealed within a clear Plexiglas casing that acts as a support for the surprising array of three - dimensional objects suspended from the work's surface, ranging from tin cans and a spent tube of paint to assorted empty plastic tubes and salvaged wooden chair rungs.
He painted mostly on Masonite, using a palette knife to prime the surface with layers of white gesso, then applying each color minimally for maximum effect — one coat of pure color, straight from a tube.
The works are fashioned from the same small handful of materials and shapes: tubes of stainless steel; circular and rectangular sheets of transparent and reflective glass; thin lines cutting out, carved into, or painted on to hard surfaces.
Heavily influenced by number tables that translate visually into meditative patterns of kaleidoscope colors, Eric's work is created by meticulously applying acrylic paint directly from the tube onto surfaces of aluminum and wood panels.
Albers never used masking tape as an aid for painting his edges, and he applied only one layer of paint to his works, from tube to panel, without modification or amendment.
From the show's first three paintings, Hofmann is all over the place, but with the constant of blasting red, yellow, blue and green vigorously applied with brush, palette knife or squeezed point tube and a distinct bravura.
He uses a unique technique which comprises of squeezing the paint straight from the tube and then spreading it thickly using a palette knife.
These in turn host squiggles of paint discharged straight from the tube.
His sculptures — geometric wall objects, façade - like reliefs, objects and sculptures created from abstract stereometric bodies which take the form of cubes, angles, columns, pedestals, podiums, movable walls and shelving — are made of cheap no - frills materials such as particle board, cardboard, linen, molton, Styrofoam, synthetic resin, emulsion paint, fluorescent tubes and other everyday building materials.
Mathieu often squeezed paint directly from tubes onto the canvas and emphasized the necessity of rapid execution in order to harness an intuitive expression.
Based in Youngin, South Korea, Kim is an artist and illustrator who also happens to love creating unique animal characters out of a range of materials including everything from polymer clay, fabric and nail polish to aluminium wire, brass tubing, acrylic paint and polyester.
Hrbacek writes: «Knutsson's hues are emphatically mixed; they are not comprised of raw paint taken straight from the tube in undiluted pigments.
Since Clyfford Still withdrew his work from public view in the 1950s, many of his paintings, which can span 12 to 14 feet, have been rolled in 4 - inch diameter cardboard tubes and the occasional plumbing pipe.
The paintings, populated with hieroglyphic signifiers, show a spectrum of techniques, from airbrushed hazes to straight - from - the - tube line drawings.
Examples include harsh brush strokes, use of a palette knife, or to smear paint from a tube directly onto a painting.
This one was painted white and was empty, save for McEwen's beautiful and spare installation of fluorescent - light fixtures fitted with machined - graphite tubes and hung from the ceiling on long silvery chains.
With 200 color plates, it traces his development, from the early painted objects to the first neon tubes, beginning with the «Diagonal of May 25, 1963 (to Constantin Brancusi),» and beyond.
Fury - infused depictions of political figures melded with phallic symbolism underneath soft palettes of gold built over neon paints she has been squeezing from tubes of thrown out containers across her studio space... mantra captions being bull dozed by vehicles of destruction, knives followed by chaotic colorful scratching...
Among these will be «The Floor I (Studio - floor from Mosfellsbaer, Iceland)» from 1973 to 1992; a series of wall - mounted works form the 1980s comprised of such at - hand materials as toys, sweets, tools, refuse, and dead insects in plastic tubes; and key works from the «Tischtücher» series of paintings made in the late 1980s and early 1990s from used tablecloths.
A cascade of monetary symbols, each squeezed from whimsically drawn paint tubes, tumbles across the page in Arman's 1989 print Currency.
Using minimal means — paint straight from the tube, applied meticulously with a palette knife — and a focused selection of colors, Josef Albers» sustained, serial investigation into rhythm, mood and spatial movement is explored in this lavishly produced volume that looks solely at his respective grey and yellow paintings, exploring two distinct color palettes pervasive to his oeuvre.
Wheeler subsequently abandoned canvas altogether with a body of innovative, radiant works known as «fabricated light paintings» in which he applied lacquer to Plexiglas boxes that were illuminated from within by neon tubing.
Her use of color in her paintings — often applying paint directly from the tube — make her work highly distinctive.
VIERIA»S FIRST SOLO exhibition, in 2006 at Small A Projects in Portland, Ore., featured ink drawings that reference passages from 18th - century historical paintings by artists such as Hubert Robert, Platonic installation of geometric forms, paper tube sculptures resembling columns and striped works on paper evoking early versions of the American flag as allusions to the American revolution.
Ken Solomon's slows down and reverses our relationship to our on - line - eyes - on - screen personas in paintings of Pandora record covers and stills from You Tube music videos.
Mr. Flavin arrived at the idea of using fluorescent tubes after several years of painting and drawing Abstract Expressionistic works to which he sometimes added scribbled texts from the Bible or James Joyce.
He bought sheets of palette paper, and showed me how to move the paint around straight from the tube.
He applied each layer of paint directly and with increasing vigour, using not only brush, but palette knife and paint squeezed straight from the tube, to animate and extend the power of his drama.
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