Sentences with phrase «in sgraffito»

I would complete one box on the close - up worksheet in sgraffito, one in pencil and one in pen.

Not exact matches

Like Krasner's «Little Image» paintings, they eschew the big, swashbuckling gestures of textbook Abstract Expressionism in favor of a wiry sgraffito (or occasionally, in Krasner's case, a thin and tightly controlled drip).

Drawn in by the beauty of his objects, which are covered with sgraffito drawing, handwritten and stenciled text, transferred photographs, and sumptuous glaze, at close range viewers apprehend darker subjects and narrative hints to environmental disaster and child abuse.

Classicism, Romanticism, numbers and pornographic sgraffito pop up in a drawing titled «See Naples + Die,» with the outline of a possible temple, a quote from Keats and crude, sputtering gunlike shapes that evoke Claes Oldenburg's early sculpture.

Oftentimes the under - painting is highlighted by the artist's incisions into the over-painting, a surface removal process much like the technique of sgraffito in ceramics.