He takes an image, reduces it to a two - tone bitmap and enlarges it into a grid that structures the overall composition, which he enlivens with various
layered pictorial elements.
Not exact matches
Beatriz Milhazes's works are
layered with
elements of both local Brazilian popular culture and modernist
pictorial language.
The continuous interest in intense relations between
pictorial elements, the very perception of a painterly surface, color and forms, suggest the artist's desire to explore different
layers of meanings and emotions.
The painting by David Schutter, fluid expression of a philology of
pictorial language — perception, gesture, memory of the image and its translation through
layering — converse with the sculptures by Nicola Martini, animated by a inner and perpetual tension between rigidly opposed
elements (horizontal / vertical, centrifugal / centripetal, solid / liquid) and which draw, challenging the limits of their own materials, a distant, atemporal and almost metaphysical landscape.
If on some paintings the
layer of solidified lead lets parts of the original landscape visible, on others it imprisons the
pictorial elements rejected by the carbonized surface.
I paint the
layers, guided by the study, and then play the opaque
elements against the color «field» and
pictorial space as it has developed.