Sentences with phrase «heavily troweled»
«Still's paintings also echo Van Gogh's in their rich color palette and heavily troweled painterly surfaces.»
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His surfaces — gnarled and knotted, as if stirred from molten pigment — feel intimately tormented, but his scenes read like unearthly dreams... Radell focuses more directly on historical subject matter... Such scenes he conjures with heavily reworked surfaces, built up of layers of troweled and scraped paint, sometimes embedded with shreds of burlap.