Then, I just started layering on different colors
of brush strokes in the color palette that I want for the basement.
The notion
of the brush stroke as an expressive signature cuts across the break between traditional and modern art.
And you know what, even after just the first coat, heck the first
couple of brush strokes, I was instantly happier.
When you first look at a painting, do you think about the
thousands of brush strokes and hours of tireless work that went into creating such a beautiful masterpiece?
The mark -
making of his brush strokes and minimal form are attempts to capture a sense of place and time within the viewer's aesthetic.
The result is a rectangle composed of horizontal
stacks of brush strokes, constructing a tall, narrow field as a dynamic balance of linear forms.
Just as you think you've caught hold of a bit of imagery you can name, it disappears into a
flurry of brush strokes again.
It was hard to blend with the brush and it showed a
lot of brush stroke lines that were tougher to buff out.
Frankenthaler's unique diluted oils technique produced intriguing, water color - like, diaphanous sweeps of color that carried with them little
evidence of a brush stroke.
The artists achieve fragmental images through the
use of brush strokes, panels, or areas of meticulous masking.
His enquiries into the fundamentals of painting: the
importance of the brush stroke and of compositional structure, are viewed retrospectively as his most important contributions to the movement.
The artist applies numerous
layers of brush strokes which form a rhizome - like, grid pattern against the nearly monochromatic or bicolor backgrounds.
His monochromatic paintings strive to blend concept and composition, arguing that the purpose of painting is to entertain the eye through the visual
qualities of the brush stroke, the depth of the paint, light, and space.
In China, which lacks an alphabet, they instead ordered the nations by the
number of brush strokes in their official Chinese name, which disordered the traditional parade insanely.
The map shows the intensity of infrared light, and traces magnetic field lines within filaments of warm dust grains and hot gas, which appear here as thin lines
reminiscent of brush strokes in a painting.
(I recently tried painting something and although I tried to be very careful, used a Purdy brush and Behr latex, there were drips and lots
of brush strokes once it was dry.)
If not quite stereotypical, these Leigh «types» are certainly drawn in the broad
est of brush strokes.
Olitski, however, has manipulated the
intensity of his brush strokes in such a way that not only does the portrait resemble one large brush stroke, but each picture has also a touch of illumination, creating a dazzling portrait with a simplistic design and nature, but irrefutable domination.
During this period Hoyland began using impasto as a vehicle for recording the density of the individual
action of the brush stroke or palette knife.
An artist known for his acute sensitivity to line and the
imprint of each brush stroke, Warren Rohrer (1927 - 1995) was absorbed with the calligraphic marks he identified as his field language.
But how does one capture the verve and
spontaneity of a brush stroke or a pencil line in the painstaking process of setting hard stones in metal?
Warming up is when you take a canvas or paper, preferably one that can be scrapped, and you practice a
variety of brush strokes upon it.
Instead of brush strokes, Rifai drips and rolls his paint, layering saturated surfaces with grids of wavering lines, creating compositions that tend toward the definition of a new visual language.
Painted on wax paper or corrugated cardboard, they tend to contain a simple image --(a
core of brush strokes and paint drips)-- on a plain, coloured ground.
Through their influence, Kline narrowed his focus, exploring the
nature of brush strokes in large - scale action paintings that consisted of a simplified, black and white palette.