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.
Not exact matches
I took my small
brush and
painted right to the edge
of the groove
mark.
What kind
of a
brush is best for this purpose as so to not leave
paint streak
marks?
I also use the front and the back
of the
brush — I
paint the
paintings with the front and then I make
marks into them in the back, which I refer to as cross-hatching.
At the same time, the squiggle - like blue line that lays on top
of the majority
of the
painting is reminiscent
of digital
marks made through computer programs such as the
brush tool in Photoshop, a technique that remains prominent in contemporary
painting today.
Like a sieve moving through every moment
of every day, Barbara Campbell Thomas's
paintings siphon the onslaught
of words, text and images, sounds, textures and physical stuff into piecemeal orderings
of stacked lines, quasi-geometric forms and blippy
brush marks — all in concert with collaged pieces
of thrifted fabric.
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.
Using the traditional tools
of the ink painter —
brush, ink and paper — he developed a language
of marks and ink application that rejected the conventions
of Korean ink
painting in favor
of stripped down, seemingly haphazard sets
of links and blots.
With each layer I add I always become attached to
brush marks or different sections so end up leaving parts
of the under
painting showing through.
The
paintings are autonomous objects that contain infinite detail and a sense
of history through the build up
of brush marks and wiped surfaces.
Each one has been
painted with white latex
paint, without any trace
of brush or roller
marks.
Suffice it to say, they're all given their due: Willem de Kooning with a wall full
of his extraordinary «women
paintings» in which female eyes, teeth and breasts are clearly discernible through blurs
of ferocious
brush marks.
Organic shapes and tangled
marks are executed with a loaded
brush, allowing the figures to exist in a field
of constant motion despite
painting's persistent stillness.
The genesis
of the applied technique lies in his interest in Art Informel, where he used the sweeping, swirling path
of the
brush marks that were clearly visible, opposed to soft blurring that was used in his photo -
paintings.
The tension between subject and content, the way the one reveals and conceals the other, is played out in the «Women»
paintings (Woman as Landscape, 1965 - 66, pictured); the subject appears to be a woman composed
of gestural
brush marks, the content is ineffable and elusive.
Such a
marked departure from Warhol's usual operating procedures is present in the surface style
of the works as well, where the noticeable
brush work, laid down before the screening
of the image, is deliberately referential to New York School
painting, in particular to the style
of painters such as Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning, a painter whom Warhol himself has referred to as a model.
The
painting is a sophisticatedorchestration
of positive and negative space, with the depicted herd appearing as bright negatives, and the groups
of trees, their trunks and foliage rendered as a series
of scraffito - like
marks (perhaps made with the end
of a
paint brush) to reveal lighter hues beneath the final, glowing earth tones.
Stand as close as possible (with your hands clasped behind you so the gallery guard doesn't start to panic you're going to touch the
painting) and spend time studying the
paint and
brush marks, not the subject
of the
painting.
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.
The direction in which the threads are sewn mimic the way
brush marks are layered within a
painting which, in turn, gives the allusion
of depth, volume, and form.
His facility with the
brush was honed in an earlier series focusing on Balthus's studio, which translated the evidence
of the artist's activity on the floor and walls into
marks and splatters on the surface
of the
painting.
During that same time I had started working on paper, doing something quite different: I was making
marks, I was tearing up pieces
of paper, I was moving
paint from one drawing to the next, I'd use a roller, I'd use a
paint brush.
We follow the
brush marks to try to trace back the making process, to analyse the sequence
of colours and lines, but it is when we move away from this analytic way
of looking to one that is more intuitive and start to enjoy the play
of light and colour, transparency and opacity that we become conscious
of where the power
of Frize's
painting lies.
Klein used the pigment in many
of his best - known works, including monochrome
paintings, sculptures, and his Anthropometries, for which he would
paint nude female models with IKB, then use the «human
brushes» to make
marks on paper and canvas, all in front
of a live audience.
Namely, the works were usually guided by the construction
of pictorial space using expressive
brush marks and lush colors, almost always
painted on the backs
of old picture frames.
Maintaining the consistency
of the brushstrokes while varying the amount
of paint and pressure applied, Lee keeps «expression to a minimum in order to achieve the maximum» (L. Ufan, Lee Ufan, Tokyo, 1993, p. 3) The almost hypnotic repetition
of marks that comprise From Line is created by the artist pressing a
brush loaded with blue
paint suspended in viscous glue directly onto the surface
of the canvas, then repeating the process until there is barely any pigment left on the filaments
of the
brush.
Paintings from his ground - breaking Anthropometry series will also be on display, for which Klein employed models as «living
brushes» to create
marks on the canvas in front
of an audience, as well as Fire
Paintings and Klein's later works in gold.
Rendered in a vibrant palette
of forest green and royal blue, overlaid by a dappled pattern
of brilliant, sunset orange
brush marks, In the Green Room is a stunning, large scale example
of Howard Hodgkin's commitment to
painting, and its emotive potential.
Usually filled with evenly applied and saturated color, in «Luster» the
paintings again diverge from earlier work through visible
brush marks that leave an imperfect, textured, and varied surface making evident the process
of paint application.
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.
I do
paint directly on the canvas with
brushes, rollers and knives, but most
of the
marks and images are screenprinted.
I imagined, whilst viewing them, floating through a gigantic three - dimensional world
of paint and
brush marks.
He thinks
of them as «collaged»
paintings — composed
of a series
of random
brush strokes,
marks and drips.
After building up the surfaces with countless layers
of acrylic, she began to
paint — a meticulous yet imprecise process
of mark making, erasure, and loosely rendered
brush strokes.
He's great on wet
paint, especially in his descriptions
of Albert Oehlen's brushwork --» grids
of dots, and passages
of fluid, slashing
brush marks «bundled» like kindling... veils, which are often made from dirty turps and some interesting, jewelescent earth tones, give the
paintings the feeling
of being seen from inside a sock.»
The string
of brush marks in a lace collar in a Velasquez
painting could be more radical, he said, than a shark «murkily disintegrating in its tank on the other side
of the Thames».
Filled with subtly modulated space, Tobey's
paintings are unquestionably pictorial, as are the
marks of his
brush.
Chamberlain's
paintings in this show are composed
of a series
of random
brush strokes,
marks and drips.
Reed: Often in new
paintings I'm using horizontal
brush marks made with the
painting on the wall showing the effects
of gravity and also working on them flat, on Leo Steinberg's flatbed — no gravity.
The
paintings in this show are composed
of a series
of random
brush strokes,
marks and drips.
Rather than drawing attention to the process
of creating Abstract Expressionist works through impasto
paint and visible
brush marks, Lichtenstein imitated the effects
of mechanical printing through a stencil process, thick black outlining and his striking hand -
painted Benday dots.
Driven by the same instinctive approach, the painter Franz Kline developed a much different Action
Painting technique, utilizing large house - painting brushes and cheap house paint to make wide, confident marks across the surfaces of hi
Painting technique, utilizing large house -
painting brushes and cheap house paint to make wide, confident marks across the surfaces of hi
painting brushes and cheap house
paint to make wide, confident
marks across the surfaces
of his works.
Saville's virtuoso
brush marks and vitreous
paint build up on the surface
of the canvas to express the physicality
of her subject.
Bacon was never fond
of his own image, thus the circular, gestural
brush marks obscure the relatable details on Bacon's face, exposing an attempt to disguise an inner turmoil that the artist wrestles with and tries to resolve through
painting.
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.
Initially reading as the casual brushstroke
of a passing giant, Ferran's
painted mark falters and arcs — recording the effort
of muscles holding the
brush to the vertical surface, exerting pressure, imposing the will
of the artist through the materials.
What appear to be linear
marks and ripples made by dragging the stick - end
of a
brush through wet vinyl
paint, like an act
of vandalism tearing through a pristine surface, is in fact a tour de force
of illusionistic
paint - handling.
I am writing this statement not quite knowing what the immediate outcome will be, but am aware
of the potential collective impact that this distinctive community
of creators will have with Brian Belott's innovations in collage, Ákos Birkás's philosophy about
painting a certain situation, Regina Bogat's devotion to art making with clever variations on certain abstract themes, Matt Bollinger's extra-large and bracing graphite drawings, Paul DeMuro's painterly electricity, Marc Desgrandchamp's time - fragmented
paintings, Michael Dotson's
paintings of the «Disney - esque,» Michel Huelin's relationship with nature and software, Irena Jurek's very meaningful cat character, Alix Le Méléder's proposals
of four colors determined by the passage
of the
brush, David Lefebvre's
painted images cut out
of magazines or downloaded from a mobile phone, Pushpamala N.'s ethnographic documentations which have been compared to Cindy Sherman, Wang Keping's unique wooden sculptures that juxtapose vivid emotion with a
marked sense
of introversion, Katharina Ziemke's pictorial treatment
of current events, and me, the co-host with a small drawing.
In 1965 and 1966, he
painted a series
of big canvases
marked with one, two, or three enormous gestural
brush strokes, in which every drip and splatter appeared to have been carefully rendered with the precision
of a machine.
Hernández works methodically, using
brushes or applying
paint directly from the tube, rendering animated lines and
marks before washing and scraping the surfaces
of his works — in effect creating compositions that appear at once ordered and explosive.