Not exact matches
Simultaneously whimsical and sinister, Lerma's project re-imagines the
layers of mythmaking in Ponce de León's tale and positions them as metaphors for deflating heroic
painting.
Johns's well - known flag
paintings, which he began making in the mid-1950s, use the brushy
paint application common to Abstract Expressionist painters
of that time, sometimes
layered over collaged newspaper clippings,
simultaneously affirming and negating the hand
of the artist.
His thick impasto
layers of skilled strokes
layer over the coal black ground, or liquid depth, a recognizable form
of the koi that is
simultaneously a riveting abstract
painting.
Momentarily abandoning the stupefying rhetoric
of immediacy that characterized his earlier photographic appropriations, he is now reinscribing his work in the well - lit field
of modern paradigms: by referencing the monochrome as he did in his previous «joke»
paintings, by reintroducing collage and silk - screen superimpositions, and above all by coating some
of his appropriations with a thin
layer of white
paint that is
simultaneously on top
of and underneath the imagery.
Significantly, Grosse leaves one area at the edge
of the entrance wall unpainted, exposing the original
layer of the architecture and
simultaneously allowing the
painting to frame itself.
Ms. Mehretu
simultaneously layers the personal and the universal, the local and the global, in the maplike language
of her recent
paintings.
The work
simultaneously builds up and strips back the
layers of paint, creating the work, which exists between figuration and abstraction.
Ideal's
layering illustrates a visual history
of the
painting's evolution while
simultaneously concealing it, transforming the image into something altogether new.
But, with their hand worked gestural
layering of paint and the artist's later avowed intent with these works to explore «the infinity
of the unbounded universe, from my own position in it, with dots — an accumulation
of particles forming the negative spaces in the net... I wanted to examine the single dot that was my own life,» [2] their affinity to Abstract Expressionism, as well as to Minimalist silence is
simultaneously evident.