The exhibition includes newly commissioned large - scale
gunpowder paintings on paper and canvas.
These include new acquisitions, portraits, watercolors, textiles, a retrospective of Cornelia Parker's work, art from the 1960s, sculptures and wallpaper by Sarah Lucas, and a gigantic «
gunpowder painting» by Cai Guo - Qiang, in the new landscape gallery.
For this exhibition, Cai produced his largest
gunpowder painting to date, Nighttime Sakura.
Not exact matches
«The Goldfinch» was inspired by a real
painting of the golden bird from Carel Fabritius, a young artist who died in the Delft
gunpowder magazine explosion of 1654, which also blew up his studio and much of his work.
And Warhol turns up here again and again, as does Ed Ruscha — starting with the word Safety
painted in
gunpowder.
His
gunpowder and graphite drawings (made during a period of self - imposed exile from
painting from 1967 to 1970)[15] feature single words depicted in a trompe l'oeil technique, as if the words are formed from ribbons of curling paper.
From the late 1960s to the mid-1970s, Ruscha
painted in alternative mediums such
gunpowder, food, condiments and blood.
The art work includes
paintings made with
gunpowder, commissioned robots, inventions created from the imagination of peasants and a giant aircraft carrier surrounding by suspended planes, UFOs and other flying machines.
He had begun to use unconventional materials in his graphic work of that period: he drew with
gunpowder and
painted and printed with foodstuffs and with
The scorched, mural - size
gunpowder drawings that combine elements of performance art, Abstract Expressionism and traditional Chinese and Japanese
painting are the most believable.
Carrillo constructed sculptures incorporating slide viewers of astrological images and test tubes of graphite and
gunpowder and created
paintings of constellations formed by traced outlines of Orozco's hands.
Tomás Espina has a quite special «
painting» technique: He uses
gunpowder to create his works.
For the last 30 years of his life, he experimented with two - sided
paintings, honey - colored translucent resins, see - through surfaces made of plastic, arcane Renaissance and Baroque imagery,
paint that disappeared when exposed to light,
gunpowder, 20 - million - year - old amber, images sewed together from pajama fabric.