Sentences with phrase «important drip painting»

Art conservation is set to get exciting (or at least very public) when the Museum of Contemporary Art (Moca LA) will clean and restore an important drip painting by Jackson Pollock in full view of the public, reported The Art Newspaper.

Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots will introduce audiences to the artist's practice via a selection of his important drip paintings made between 1947 - 50 including Summertime: Number 9A 1948 (Tate) and Number 3, 1949: Tiger 1949 (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden).

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It's important to make sure that the tape is tightly hugging the surface of the jar to avoid any paint from dripping in — you want clean, straight lines.

Important among them was the propensity to get very physical with paint and to take into new terrain the pours and drips of Jackson Pollock and the staining technique of Color Field painting.

Spontaneity, chance, spilling, dripping and brushing became important working methods in the mid to late 1970s and Bowling began referring to his work as «poured paintings».

Pollock, who exhibited his drip paintings in 1951, freeing the line from figuration, was for Greenberg the pinnacle of American Modernism, the most important artist since Picasso.

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.

If you were going to pick an important moment in an artist's career, it could be terrific at 45 East 78th Street in these beautiful rooms, but you couldn't fill a museum with, say, 24 Pollock drip paintings on paper.

With its opulent, marbled galaxy of dripped, splashed and spattered paint, Number 21, 1950 is a beautiful and important work from the peak of Jackson Pollock's iconic «drip period».

I believe that another woman, Janet Sobel, invented the relationship of drip painting to intimacy that I have found so important.

Namuth's photographs and films of Pollock still stand among the most important documents showing an artist in his studio and continue to influence artists as diverse as Richard Serra (whose molten - lead sculptures from the late»60s transpose the drip paintings into three dimensions) and Vik Muniz (who appropriated one of the images for a painting in chocolate).

When Pollock was painting his canvases, with his famous brush dripping, the important aspect of his art was the action of painting, the movements of the artist on the canvas, the energy of every drop of paint (read our article about Pollock here).

The drip was a gestural element, but more important, it delivered a physical and literal element that also captured a moment of time during the painting process.

Another important figure in the development of Colour Field painting was Helen Frankenthaler (b. 1928), who began as a Cubist before exploring Abstract Expressionist styles in the early 1950s, making a significant development of Pollock's «drip» technique.

Begun essentially by the Rothko, Newman, Still wing of Abstract Expressionism (Pollock's drip paintings are crossovers between this and gestural abstraction), it continued on in Colorfield painting, and in later large - scale monochrome and minimalist painting (another important addition to the map, although not with as much breadth as the Gestural.)