And it's through their mutual fragmentation and intercession (the gloss
of black enamel or shine of crushed aluminum) that we get a glimpse of what's at stake in painting's entropic undoing.
During the 2000s he began a series of large - scale abstract works known as «gray paintings», which involves the repetitive painting and erasing
of black enamel paint, to create layers of tangled lines and hazy impressions.
Then, the exhibit moves into the black paintings, a series
of black enamel paintings created by Pollock between 1951 and 1953.
After a while he took a can
of black enamel (he usually starts with the color which is at hand at the time) and a stubby brush which he dipped into the paint and then began to move his arm rhythmically about, letting the paint fall in a variety of movements on the surface.
The black pourings were first exhibited at Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, in 1951; a series
of black enamel and oils, they have been described by art historian Michael Fried as bringing the artist to «the verge of an entirely new and different kind of painting... of virtually limitless potential.»
These works are a series
of black enamel and oil paintings, they are presented alongside unique works on paper and prints from the same period, which are regarded as his most important and productive output as a draughtsman.
Yet even here, bands
of black enamel radiating concentrically from the center of the composition push your eye out to the edges of the painting and beyond.
The exhibition will explore Pollock's practice via a selection of paintings made between 1947 and 1949; these works will serve to contextualize the radical departure represented by the black paintings, a series
of black enamel and oil paintings that Pollock created between 1951 and 1953.
Obscured behind an opaque, inky mass
of black enamel, the viewer is left wondering whether the gesture is continuous or, like so much of Wool's work, a carefully crafted illusion.
Some of those I'd been most drawn to appeared reduced, hardened and flattened, a little too obvious: the 1973 expanse of white Enamelac on an aluminium base that shows in a thin line down the left - hand side and along the bottom; a row of square pieces from the same year, their fat L - shapes of black (oxidised copper, apparently) set off by smaller white baked - enamel squares; and 1985's Catalyst III, with its steel bolts and thin, intermittent lines
of black enamel seeming to divide the aluminium base and contain it in a pointedly incomplete frame.
For more than a year he worked on what became known as his Black Paintings: large, aggressive canvases covered with stripes
of black enamel paint that formed repetitive, rippling patterns.
Not exact matches
The meat had been marinating overnight, in an
enameled metal bucket, in a bath
of vinegar, oil, onions,
black pepper, coriander seeds, and bay leaves.
The bangle is also a thing
of beauty: It is
black enamel and gold tone.
After I paint two coats
of flat
black enamel how long must I wait to put finish wax coats on my piece?
Isabel Marant sets the style agenda, with the cool glint
of stainless steel tempered by
black enamel, in a second watch from the Paris label.
Proving that animal print is definitely a neutral, panther spots appear pixelated here in a wildly inventive combination
of pink gold and
black enamel.
This round shank button is made
of golden metal and is coated with
black enamel.
A wood and metal framed vanity mirror hangs between
black enamel industrial sconces fixed over a white washstand fitted with a concrete gray quartz countertop and a polished nickel faucet kit mounted in front
of white backsplash tiles.
Hue # 690 is part
of the 2014 Berry Collection and is the ideal neutral tone, whilst hues # 637 and # 638 are perfect alternatives to a classic
black cherry hue, as these
enamels have a slight micro-gold glitter sheen when it dries to a high - gloss finish.
A basket weaving
of silver over a
black enamel background adds depth and texture to this cufflink and stud set.Silver - tone metal.Cufflinks with hinged backs.Includes four studs.Imported
These modern cufflinks feature stripes
of mother -
of - pearl and
black enamel in a silver - tone frame.Silver - tone metal.
Enamel and mother -
of - pearl centerpiece.Pronto Uomo.Imported
From kate spade new york: A stylish addition to the home bar, this set is crafted
of stainless steel and accented with
black enamel dots on the corkscrew and a
black - and - white barber pole stripe on the bottle opener.
The bead chain is 16 inches long, made
of gold or rhodium plated brass with a lobster clasp, and holds this beautiful little lady bug coated with red and
black enamel.
2015 raised the benchmark for the Sport modified by Overfinch, with the introduction
of the Carbon Fibre Front Grille, Jewelled
Black Chrome Lettering &
Enamel «Blade».
The only tells, visually, are the GT V8's revised rear lower valance and exhaust; the
blacked - out mesh in the front grille; and the use
of red
enamel instead
of green on the background
of the Bentley badges.
But the sunlight that couldn't be stopped shone on the red bread - box and on the bottle - green icebox and on the blue, marble - painted crock containing cucumber pickles and on the polished
black enameled woodstove and on the pale blue safe with the pink floribunda roses painted on the two doors, and he watched all these take their true colors back to themselves and the faces
of the men and Mrs. Parker take on the colors and shapes that they carried through daytime that were different from their faces at night under even the brightest light, somehow more supple and creased and softer really than at night, even if they looked more battered and old.
At the start is the deathly glamour
of Stella's
Black Paintings — bands in matte
enamel, separated by fuzzy pinstripes
of nearly bare canvas — which shocked everyone with their dour simplicity when they appeared in a show at the Museum
of Modern Art, in 1959.
In particular, his «
Black Paintings» — monochromes
of enamel on newspaper collage — have much in common with the late work
of both Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt, and have recently been referenced in relation to Pollock's «
Black Paintings» from the very same years (1951 — 52).
His seminal «
Black Paintings» (1958 - 60) consist
of parallel bands made with a house - painter's brush and
enamel.
Cueva de El Castillo, Puente Viesgo, Spain Panel
of Hands, photo: Pedro Saura Cueva de El Castillo, Panel
of Hands, photo: Pedro Saura Cueva de El Castillo, Corridor
of Disks, photo: Pedro Saura Hologram, Museo Nacional de Altamira, Santillana del Mar, Spain, photo: Estudio Nómada Inside Conellante, Matienzo, Spain, 2010, photo: Randee Silv El Pendo, entrance, 2010, photo: Randee Silv Pech Merle, Cabrerets, France, photo: Steve Errede, Dept.
of Physics, University
of Illinois Airbrushing, photo: Don Hitchcock, Don's Maps Finger Flutings, Grotte de Rouffignac, France, photo: Kevin Sharpe & Leslie Van Gelder Untitled, Alice Rahon, 1945, watercolor, 10 x 8», photo: Creighton - Davis GallerY L'Enclume, Wolfgang Paalen, 1952, oil & fumage, 53 x 74», photo: Artsy.net Message, No. 8, Mathias Goeritz, 1959, gold paint, perforated steel, pushpins on board, photo: Arevalo Gallery Conference Poster 1950, Willi Baumeister, Centro de Arte Riena Sofia, Madrid, photo: Randee Silv Altamira, Joan Miró, 1958, lithograph, photo: Quittenbaum Auction House, Munich Joan Miró & Josep Llorens Artigas, Altamira, 1957, photo: Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain Patterns
of Aranjuez, 1955, N. H. Stubbing, oil on canvas, 78 x 69 ″, photo: England & Co, London Cave
of Black, Herman Cherry, 1954,
enamel / coffee grinds on canvas, 61 x49 ″, David Findlay Gallery, photo: Randee Silv Untitled, Denny Winters, 1982, photo: Gamage Auction House, Rockland, Maine Before the Caves, Helen Frankenthaler, 1958, oil on unprimed canvas, 102 x 104 ″, photo: Berkeley Art Museum The Homely Protestant, Robert Motherwell, 1946, oil on masonite, 98 X 48 ″, photo: Metropolitian Museum Cave Study (Perigord Region), Elaine de Kooning 1983, segment, photo: Artvalue.com Lascaux Cave, France, closeup
of Megalaceros section, photo: Wikimedia commons Untitled 1963, David Smith, spray
enamel on paper, 14 x 19 ″, photo: David Smith Estate Chauvet Cave, Vallon - Pont - d'Arc, France, photo: Dr. Jean Clottes Exhibition poster, Miguel Barceló, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, 1995 photo: Michel Fillon Gallery, Paris Stages
of Trance, photo: David Lewis - Williams, Inside the Neolithic Mind Pareidolia, Conellante Cave, 2010, Matienzo, Spain, photo: Randee Silv Blackness, Conellante Cave, 2010, Matienzo, Spain, photo: Randee Silv
NEW YORK - Homer, Kenny, Donald, Mickey: Joyce Pensato's painterly masticating
of these American cartoon icons — distilled in
black - and - white
enamel — have been seducing audiences for decades.
A forceful portraitist
of black women who often composes her pieces with paint,
enamel and rhinestones, Ms. Thomas, who has lived and worked in Brooklyn for 17 years, conceded that she was «scared as hell.»
Pollock's
Black Enamel paintings, Cezanne's late works, and the landscapes
of the late - Ming Dynasty painter Tung Ch» i - Ch» ang are a few
of the sources I draw from.
His final body
of work, landscape paintings done from memory with a 6» roller and
black enamel paint, has affected the direction
of my own recent paintings, the memory part if not the utility
of them.
Frankenthaler did not invent the technique
of poured paint, but she did mix turpentine into her bright colors so that they moved to a distant pole from Pollock's
black enamel.
In this rendition
of the West German flag, the normally equal divisions into
black, red and gold have been readjusted; the
enamel panel provides the key: the narrow
black and barely discernible red stripes represent respectively the middle class and, in the artist's words, «the remaining households,» while the gold stripe, now swollen to 7/8
of the flag, represents big business.
Increasingly she combined Pollock's epic battlefield with the flesh - like leaves
of de Kooning's 1948 Painting — but in sepia rather than
black enamel and white oil.
His winning gambit was to use
black enamel and acrylic paints, unusual media that have the feel more
of viscous printing ink than
of paint.
In his more recent works, including those in this show, he uses
enamel on linen, spray painting looping
black lines, then erasing or blurring them with rags, engaging in a complex play
of presence and absence, gesture and cancellation.
stained glass, mouth blown clear antique glass,
black paint and
enamel colors, fired and leaded, diptych, 2 sets
of 3 framed panels: 99-1/2» x 96-3/4» (252.7 cm x 245.7 cm), each99 - 1 / 2» x 203» (252.7 cm x 515.6 cm), overall installed.
The Alphabet March 16 - June 24, 2018 Keith Haring (collaboration with LA II) Statue
of Liberty, 1982 Acrylic and
enamel on fiberglass with
black light 95 x 35 x 14 in.
He had his first solo exhibition at the Charles Egan Gallery in New York in 1948, with a body
of work in
black - and - white
enamel paint.
His
Black Stripe Paintings (1959), comprised
of a regulated sequence
of stripes painted in
enamel with the broad strokes
of a house painters brush, debuted in the Sixteen Americans exhibition at Museum
of Modern Art in the same year.
The artist best known for his flattened approach to the human figure takes his signature aesthetic into sculpture with «Cut Outs,» a solo exhibition
of four works depicting Katz's wife Ada, the full set
of his nine - piece «
Black Dress» series, and one larger, multifigure work, all rendered in stainless and porcelain
enamel coated steel.
Alex Katz «Cut Outs» Paul Kasmin 515 West 27th Street CLOSES: April 12 The artist best known for his flattened approach to the human figure takes his signature aesthetic into sculpture with «Cut Outs,» a solo exhibition
of four works depicting Katz's wife Ada, the full set
of his nine - piece «
Black Dress» series, and one larger, multifigure work, all rendered in stainless and porcelain
enamel coated steel.
Images: Jackson Pollock, Echo: Number 25, 1951, 1951,
enamel paint on canvas, Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest and the Mr. and Mrs. David Rokefeller Fund, Museum
of Modern Art, New York © 2015 The Pollock - Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Jackson Pollock, Number 7, 1951, 1951,
enamel on canvas, The National Gallery
of Art, Washington, D.C., Gift
of the Collectors Committee (1983.77.1) © 2015 The Pollock - Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Jackson Pollock, Untitled, c. 1949 - 50, painted terracotta, Collection Gail and Tony Ganz, Los Angeles © 2015 The Pollock - Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Jackson Pollock, Portrait and a Dream, 1953, oil and
enamel on canvas, Dallas Museum
of Art, gift
of Mr. and Mrs. Algur H. Meadows and the Meadows Foundation, Incorporated © 2015 The Pollock - Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Jackson Pollock, Number 14, 1951, 1951, oil on canvas, Purchased with assistance from the American Fellows
of the Tate Gallery Foundation 1988 © 2015 The Pollock - Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Jackson Pollock,
Black and White Painting II, c. 1951, oil on canvas, Private Collection © 2015 The Pollock - Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
He also arranged for Noland and Louis to visit Helen Frankenthaler's New York studio in 1953, where they were introduced to her method
of soaking turpentine - thinned oil pigment into unsized, unprimed canvas (a technique Frankenthaler herself had learned from Pollack's 1951
black - and - while stain paintings made with thinned
black enamel paint).
The rough means
of production (
black enamel rubbed over canvas using ropes and chains) adds depth to the simplicity
of the designs.
Images from top to bottom: Installation view
of Don Judd, Green Gallery, New York, December 17, 1963 - January 11, 1964; Poster for Don Judd, Green Gallery, New York, December 17, 1963 - January 11, 1964; Donald Judd, untitled, 1963, cadmium red light and
black oil on wood with galvanized iron and aluminum; Donald Judd, untitled, 1963, cadmium red light oil on wood and purple
enamel on aluminum.
The graffiti style
of Wool's
black enamel — applied via spray gun — belies the complexity
of their creation and the prowess
of the artist himself.