I sanded it because it had been painted in oil based paint that had a lot
of drip marks in it, and I wanted it smooth before I started my unknown creation.
Hoyland has encouraged the formation
of drip marks and other accidental markings conferring upon the printmaking medium characteristics normally associated with his painting.
Much of the work made post 2000 consisting of paintings executed in a bold pop style with defining features
of drip marks, iridescent colours and black outlines.
Not exact matches
Some examples
of when I would sand first: The existing paint job is sloppy with
drip marks that I want to remove.
Greenberg, art critic Michael Fried, and others have observed that the overall feeling in Pollock's most famous works — his
drip paintings — read as vast fields
of built - up linear elements often reading as vast complexes
of similar valued paint skeins that read as all over fields
of color and drawing, and are related to the mural - sized late Monets that are constructed
of many passages
of close valued brushed and scumbled
marks that also read as close valued fields
of color and drawing that Monet used in building his picture surfaces.
Within the paintings simple abstract structures alluding to architecture coexist with simple but vast fields
of marks,
drips and staining.
The notion
of traditional
mark making in painting takes on an entirely new perspective in
Drip Painting # 7.
Indeed, the ambition is realised in superb gatherings
of major figures; there's more
Mark Rothko, Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock here than you can shake a
dripping paintbrush at, with many impressively wrangled from private collections.
Meshes
of wide dynamic
marks; improvised arrangements
of grids and crosses and circles and splodges; jabs and
drips, curves and swirls, overlapping or reframing each other; and colour, gloriously bright no - compromise colour, at the uppermost tones
of red, pink, yellow, orange, blue and green.
Historians have argued that the work stands as a precedent both for the artist's own performances in the 1960s and for the explosion
of performative work in that decade.20 Paul Schimmel astutely places Automobile Tire Print on a trajectory
of performative works based on the notion
of capturing an indexical trace, reaching back to Pollock's
drip paintings, moving up through Rauschenberg's blueprints, and on to Piero Manzoni's Lineas (1959 — 61), Paul McCarthy's video Face Painting — Floor, White Line (1972, fig. 5), and Ulay and Marina Abramovic's 1977 performance Relation in Movement, in which they drove a van in a circle for sixteen hours, leaving a circle
of oil
drips and tire
marks on a public plaza in Paris.21
The technique negotiated a common ground between Pollock's heroic no - brush
drip style and the expanses
of saturated color favored especially by Barnett Newman and
Mark Rothko.
Gestural
markings appear throughout the composition: smatterings
of gray pigment, dots,
drips, and smudges, and some cloud - like formations.
Still, the rich,
drip - streaked
marks of Guirguis» paintings, and the soft glow
of vermilion that emanates from behind their intricately cut surfaces, suggest an alternate understanding that prioritizes intuition, embodiment, and affect over official narratives.
Here the red figures
of the couple and the delineated dark lines
of the background surface meld with the swirl
of dripped wax and the intricate field
of markings of ink and watercolor.
The strokes were made with a brush loaded with red or black and painted directly onto a wet ground; we can see the speed
of the
mark, the downward pull
of gravity, and the
drips where they meet.
Next time you see one
of his paintings, move beyond the simple paint
markings on a canvas, but try to see a single note
of sound unraveling in thick and thin, straight and curved, colorful and monochrome
dripped lines.
Alÿs confronts issues
of globalism through Sisyphean episodes: pushing a block
of ice down the streets
of Mexico City until it is melted completely (Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing, 1997); walking the streets
of São Paulo and Jerusalem with a
dripping can
of paint to
mark national borders (The Green Line (Sometimes doing something poetic can become political and sometimes doing something political can become poetic), 2005); and shoveling a mound
of sand from one side
of a dune to the other in Lima, Peru (When Faith Moves Mountains, 2002).
This image
of the work turned on its side, made from an archival slide, documents the
drips of white paint that
marked the work's surface until Rauschenberg covered it with a fresh coat
of black paint.
Other hallmarks
of this new generation
of painters, according to Greenberg, were thinned - out paint, a lack
of an identifiable artistic
mark (as in Pollock's «
drips» and «skeins»), a focus on saturated and intense color, and a lack
of interest in spontaneity.
Using spray paint on top
of paint brushed
marks, you can draw a line
of references from Pollocks
dripped paint (similarly applied from a distance), to modern day graffiti.
Like all the works
of this period, Collection is held together, across its material disunity and the variety
of materials out
of which it is constructed, by a grid structure derived from the modernist tradition in which Rauschenberg was trained by Josef Albers, by the
drips, stains and thick brush
marks that create an over-all surface, and by the similarity
of value shared by its range
of colors.
See if
marks,
drips, patterns, or a sense
of movement make it interesting.
His gestures now relied more upon the subconscious, but they were more akin to the linear «white writing»
of Mark Tobey than the
drips and flings
of Jackson Pollock, incorporating symbols such as crosses and arrows.
His paintwork plays with our expectations
of gestural
mark making —
drips, pours, and freely brushed elements often being revealed as controlled and lovingly - recreated representations
of the «real «thing.
By laying the canvas on the ground, and
dripping the paint onto it, the body
of the painter was also immersed with color, the
marks of his movement were also left on the canvas, as well as the ashes
of the cigarettes the painter smoked while working.
At one point, the total abandonment
of the recognizable object, that we saw as the 20th century progressed, and in the works
of Wassily Kandinsky and Jackson Pollock, seemed to place color,
marks,
drips, at the center
of the paintings, making the act
of painting all about the painting itself.
She «paints» with layers
of ribbon, dyed clothing, and hand - sewn textiles; the materials become
marks,
drips and washes.
Thin, horizontal striations
of vibrant neon colors seem to liquefy and
drip, creating an unusual grainy texture across the surface
of the aluminum paintings, whose
markings bear a kinship to rough textiles such as coarse, unprimed canvas.
Vibrant primary and secondary colors are densely layered, and the material plasticity
of the artist's chosen medium is emphasized through
drips and large areas
of overspray, suggesting a sense
of dynamic movement and revealing the gestural
marks of the artist's process.
Here we can see the
mark of her hand even at a distance; the lines have a softness, because Martin worked quickly to avoid
drips in the fast - drying paint.
Following the pioneering «
drip» paintings
of Jackson Pollock, artists like Willem de Kooning,
Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman developed their own distinct visual vocabularies.
The heading
of action painting actually incorporates a number
of different tendencies including splatter painting,
drip painting and gestural
mark making.
Sammy Peters produces abstract, multimedia compositions whose complex, layered images are made up
of expressive brushwork, scribbles, gestural
marks,
drips, and collaged papers and fabrics.
Mark Handforth's upcoming exhibition at Sant» Andrea de Scaphis centers around a new work, Panda Disponibile, the carcass
of a FIAT Panda, covered with lighted candles,
dripping wax.
«action painters» - to use Rosenberg's term - here, and beneath the looping lines,
drips and blocks
of color that
mark their paintings» surfaces, you can look to see deeper layers
of painterly activity.
Instead, when Pollock
dripped thinned paint from a stick or a brush, moving his wrist and arm fast or slow, wide or contracted, high or low in the air above a canvas, an almost infinitely variable range
of linear
marks fell to the canvas below.
Think 20th century abstract art and the mind automatically conjures up images
of Jackson Pollock's expressionist
drip paintings or
Mark Rothko's cool intensity.
He thinks
of them as «collaged» paintings — composed
of a series
of random brush strokes,
marks and
drips.
The play between various lines, the use
of expressive
marks and the
drip of the paint in comparison to the repetitive rhythm or creation
of a flat and decorative surface, all covey a different understanding
of the world and the different, in a sense, sound
of the visual language.
Chamberlain's paintings in this show are composed
of a series
of random brush strokes,
marks and
drips.
Modified to resemble a rocket and transferred to the canvas using fiery red ink, it is tilted upward, trailed by a bright orange plume
of painterly
drip marks.
The paintings in this show are composed
of a series
of random brush strokes,
marks and
drips.
Areas
of blue at the top
of the canvas and bottom sections
of scumbled green — that evidence the
drip marks of thinned paint — act as points
of enclosure for a sandy colored swath which is punctuated by accents
of red.
He employs a variety
of marks, ranging from small
drips dispersed across the surface, to broad horizontal and diagonal lines that appear to reference calligraphic forms.
Rendered in thinly applied automotive paint on aluminium sheets folded at the edges to form large industrial - looking trays, these impressionistic works, with their visible brush
marks and gestural
drips have, as the exhibition's title hints, the feel
of half - glimpsed stories, the clarity
of their message faded through time.
At the same time I want a rawness, where there are
drips, stops, and irregularities
of marks — or the way it slows down, or speeds up, or things get slightly out
of control, pulling and distorting, so that you see struggle in the image.
Pousette - Dart's Abstract Expressionism, in «The New York Times», 9 October 1981, with ill.; Michael Kimmelman, Richard Pousette - Dart, 76, Dies — An Early Abstract Expressionist, in «The New York Times», 27 October 1992 «Suspended light presents an oculus form, circled by an oval framing edge, floating within an energized field
of stained and
dripped black pigment
marks that evoke poetic association with the starry sky and sublime nature phenomena.
«Suspended light presents an oculus form, circled by an oval framing edge, floating within an energized field
of stained and
dripped black pigment
marks that evoke poetic association with the starry sky and sublime nature phenomena.
The paint texture,
marks and subtle variations in color, and bleeds /
drips / rips
of paint similarly create their own interference, breaking the illusion
of depth and space within the pattern, and bringing the eye back to the surface
of the paint, the «skin» covering the flat canvas.
The critics
of high modernism celebrated the painter's
mark upon the canvas, especially the first one - that initial splatter, spray,
drip, zip.