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Over the past number of years I have worked in thematic series, beginning each with a conceptual framework and then allowing
the layered painting processes to determine the eventual form and content of the work.
Not exact matches
, a
layered process, and allowed for «negative» space (the white between the diamonds), making for a sophisticated piece, rather than simply throwing
paint onto the canvas and calling it «abstract» (which to me means, «I couldn't be bothered»).
Layering paint colors is such a creative
process.
Majewski uses CGI to place actors within Bruegel's
paintings and
layer live action in painterly compositions, both as a way to explore the creative
process and as illustration and commentary on the social and political reality of Spanish - ruled Flanders that inspired Bruegel.
«We did all stretch and stipple because we didn't have any more money for prosthetics,» Denaver said, referring to the common
process of stretching the skin and holding it while applying liquid latex, powder, and
paint — in multiple
layers to Janney's entire face, hands, and neck — to create wrinkles.
A new Lexus
painting process that uses multiple
layers of clear and deeper - colored coating brings the RC coupe to life with a brighter and more contrasting shade, especially on the racy red exterior.
An optional liquid - effect finish employs a hand - polished 8 - stage
process with product - specific Super Silver metallic
paint and three
layers of clearcoat.
Through overprinting (sometimes thirty or more
layers) she was able to emulate the fluid,
process oriented mark - making also found in her poured
painting.
The Minneapolis - born artist shoots high - resolution black and white images through glass blocks, then adds photograms during the development
process and, for the final
layer, hand -
paints the prints.
Abramowitz writes: «As is typical of his
paintings, [Auerbach's] drawings often show many
layers of built - up re-workings until there is a dense mangle of lines, each mark thought through, erased and re-considered until he is satisfied... His working
process results in portraits that are both an expression of his reaction to the sitter, and his own idiosyncratic way of working, creating, destroying, and creating anew.»
Going back to how you [Gooding] describe the earlier work, there was in fact a self - conscious desire to block off or direct the viewer's
process of looking at it or looking into it, and this later evolved into a later stage in which there was actually an invitation to «look in», but in which at all times the viewer was encouraged to be aware that the
painting was made out of real things, real physical
layers, rather than illusions.»
Sigmar Polke, an artist of infinite, often ravishing pictorial jest, whose sarcastic and vibrant
layering of found images and maverick, chaos - provoking
painting processes left an indelible mark on the last four decades of contemporary
painting, died yesterday in Cologne, Germany.
Upon exploring the stained surfaces of Krone's Screen
Paintings, one is made aware of the causality occurring between the artist's systematic
layering process and its entirely arbitrary result.
His
paintings rise from the depths of well - considered planning and intellectual consideration; Portilla reaches unique coloration through careful
layering while letting the
process of
painting and exploration reign free.
The texture of the heavy - weight watercolor paper needed for this
process adds a
layer of abstraction more akin to the language of drawing and
painting than photography.
The
paintings by David Ainley are colour monochromes built up in
layers of thick
paint, forming a substantial surface into which Ainley scores lines, revealing parts of the underpainting, in a
process that is similar to excavation or mining.
Iva Gueorguieva adapts the visual language of modern abstraction to create tumultuous, energetic spaces on canvas; her
process of building up
paintings by
layering torn cloth with pigment and color washes produces spontaneous, dynamic compositions rooted in personal stories.
This
process is repeated, leaving one half of the
painting covered in
layered, complex color whilst the other half of the
painting is cleansed as much as possible back to the original gesso.
Sakaizawa's iterative
process makes similar use of the canvas, as
layers of
paint, applied in dozens of identical gestures, build out beyond a two - dimensional surface.
After experimenting with resin for over 20 years, Lee's latest work combines this material with acrylic
paint in a
process that produces three - dimensional, sculptural
layers.
For the image, Close employed the four basic colors used in color printing — cyan, magenta, yellow, and black — to recreate the photo - mechanical reproduction
process, using the airbrush to carefully control the
layering of
paint.
Hernández's method involves literally digging through
layers of
paint to the canvas, in a
process that the artist associates with sculptural carving.
The
paintings of Berlin - based artist Clara Brörmann, currently hanging on the walls of Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, reveal an innate sense of clarity, though a direct understanding of each work's
process may be lost in the
layers.
Truitt
layered her
paint over vertical wooden boxes, distinguishing her
process from the more industrial, impersonal strategies that many of her contemporaries relied on.
She infused her art with these experiences through a labor intensive
process — applying many
layers of
paint by hand to each piece and sanding the surfaces to a fine finish — and the bands of rich color that cover her sculptures, liberated from the traditional two - dimensional plane of
painting, prompt viewers to make their own associations with her work.
Truitt's wooden sculpture combines a heavy, durable material with the refined
process of handpainted
layers of richly colored
paint.
Fox's
process, continually adding and removing
layers of
paint, echoes the way that geology forms slowly over time by evolution and erosion.
Through
layers of
paint applied in an utterly abstract gestural style, which seem to cover instead of disclosing an image, the pictures record time, summing up the experience of looking,
processing, and representing.»
These
paintings are the product of a labor - intensive
process known as frottage, in which
paint is first applied to the canvas before the artist methodically alternates between scraping off existing
layers and adding fresh coats.
Through the
process of transcribing these sketches into
paint he has to scrape and reapply
paint repeatedly; forming several
layers that overlap which creates further abstraction of the figure and its surroundings.
Schiele famously traveled everywhere with a full - length mirror that once belonged to his mother, and Saville also uses full - length mirrors, as well as photographs (the latter to «hold the image down,» in her words), to aid in the lengthy
process of
painting her fragmented and
layered figures.
Damien Meade, born in Ireland, is known for his
paintings which are the culmination of a
layered studio - based
process that begins with the artist modelling a structure from clay in his studio, shaping it and giving it form with his hands.
The
process of Wolniak's recent
paintings is harder to trace by eye, given the visual complexity of their
layered surfaces, but the evidence is there.
Referencing formal systems of Abstract
Painting, Fox explores the language of relational color, as articulated through
layered processes.
Both Jackie Saccoccio and Jessica Dickinson offer works that through their
process - based
painting and drawing emphasize the physical
layers of residue to a literal past.
«Through an innovative
process of
layering, embellishing and eroding materials, Bradford's
paintings are a kind of an archeology of the present, even as they explore the limits and possibilities of abstraction.»
Building up multiple
layers of oil
paint as he works, Richter mobilizes paintbrush, squeegee, scraper and palette knife in his signature
process, his wealth of experience meeting his careful deployment of chance in highly detailed and extremely complex pictures.
Through a
process of applying many translucent
layers of oil
paint onto canvases lying on the floor random expressionistic color fields are created sometimes with broken geometric structures floating on the surface.
Despite their
layered complexity, Walsh's
paintings make no mystery of their
process.
«By the early 1980s, Brodsky's approach involved an exploration of flattened pictorial space built up from
layers of pigment that create an overall surface pattern of light and shade, the whole animated by energetic ribbons of color that dance across the canvas as a record of the artist's spontaneous gesture, attesting to his engagement with the
process of
painting itself,» wrote Chalif.
Over the years, Bozic has developed a complex
process of masking and staining so the natural grain can collaborate with each composition using multiple
layers of watered down acrylic
paint on maple panels of wood.
Thea Ballard with a short review on Bracha L. Ettinger's latest exhibition at Callicoon Fine Arts, New York: «Though small and even unassuming, her striated oil
paintings (in deep bodily reds and purples) are rewarding and dense - both in theoretical weight and in composition, her method involving a years - long
process of
layering.»
At a deeper level, FLOW and EBB is a metaphor for the fluctuating art - making
process - the act of mark - making, adding and removing
paint and other media over many
layers, echoing the way the landscape has developed over time... a building up and a breaking down.
I use an artistic
process that often consists of
layering thin, transparent paper upon which I subsequently
paint and draw.
, New York: «Though small and even unassuming, her striated oil
paintings (in deep bodily reds and purples) are rewarding and dense - both in theoretical weight and in composition, her method involving a years - long
process of
layering.»
Images are established through a rigorous
process:
layering ink and acrylic as a foundation, with subsequent
layers of oil
paint to transform.
Though derived from the same
painting, the mechanized
process of the jacquard loom gives each tapestry a unique color scheme and compresses Richter's signature scrapes and
layered compositions, creating a form in between
painting and photography.
In a
process that mimics the push and pull of water currents, the artist builds complex textures from
layers of paper,
paint, ink, and thread.
The pigment is not
painted within the outlines of the shape; instead it is
layered thickly on to the paper, mixing in small amounts of turpentine, and then adding varnish little by little in a laborious
process which lends physicality and depth to the two - dimensional works.