I want to create screens of light but now I find that such screens can incorporate
more painterly qualities than I suspected.
Others have
a more painterly quality, where vibrant brushstrokes scratch at the canvas, like a man scratching at the walls of a prison cell.
Not exact matches
Furthermore, he insisted that the painting is nothing
more than a flat surface with some paint on it, completely avoiding any symbolic
qualities that some believed are the essential core of the
painterly compositions.
A lesser artist would likely have been
more than satisfied with those earlier paintings (their distressed
painterly qualities did have a certain something), but they didn't stand a chance once Pensato shifted into overdrive and made «action painting» count again.
I don't see them as anti facture so much as
more linear — which is just as much a «
painterly»
quality as thick or heavy applications of color.
The mirror image
quality intrinsic in colored acrylic glass (the
more familiar brand name is Plexiglas), which is made with a chemical related to the acrylic paint polymer, quietly acts in
painterly ways with subtle reflections of color and light.
Central to the success of his work, therefore, is a tension between strictly ordered, «objective» zones of powerful colour and a looser,
more subjective «edge»: each of the vital boundary lines of each defined, resonant stripe or square in a Scully painting has a distinct
quality — and these variations create a plurality of
painterly incident and accident within an apparently systematic arrangement.
Despite these distinctly
painterly qualities, painting was still apparently no
more than a means to an end for Prince, a far cry from passionate expression.
But this is not only a conceptual device; it furthermore creates an extraordinarily glossy surface - texture that punches the light away, affording the paintings a
quality that is seemingly
more photographic than
painterly.
In addition, the motion gives the work a
more painterly effect; the slow shutter speed creates a haunting
quality.»