Sentences with phrase «melted paintstick»

To make these drawings, Serra pours melted paintstick onto a table, puts a layer of wire mesh or screen on top, and then transfers the pigment on to a sheet of paper by pressing a hard marking tool onto the back of the paper.

To make these drawings, Serra often pours melted paintstick onto the floor and then lays the paper on top of the pigment.

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Paintstick, melted down and recast in large heavy blocks, was applied using repetitive and vigorous physical gestures.

Often large in scale, these drawings are typically made with a thick impasto of black paintstick (or, more recently, lithographic crayons melted into a brick), which is applied to a surface in broad, dense passages.