The phrase
"oil pigment" refers to a type of colored material that is used in painting. It is made by combining colored powder with oil, which creates a thick and smooth substance. Artists use
oil pigment to create vibrant and long-lasting colors on their canvases.
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These paintings often employed the use of a silver, acrylic background with layers of dark
oil pigment on top.
Following a visit to Helen Frankenthaler's New York studio in 1953, Noland began staining his raw canvases directly
with oil pigments, so that they retained the luminousness and translucency of watercolor.
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).
Armed with a spray of
vaporized oil pigments, Ferris has created a fresh and original abstract language that combines her own distinctive approach to mark - making with the history of abstract painting.
Since 2005, her mixed media work has utilized encaustic wax,
oil pigment sticks, and collagraph printing techniques to create art that reflects her background in science and her engagement with nature.
By the late 1950s Lichtenstein experimented with dragging
thick oil pigment across the canvas, which celebrated the brushstroke and provided a dialogue with classic New York School Abstract Expressionism.
Drawing inspiration from a recently completed two - month artist residency at Bellas Artes Projects in the Philippines, these new works further McCloud's visceral reclamation of painting with unconventional industrial materials combined with
traditional oil pigment and woodblock printing techniques.
Barry Le Va 9g Wagner Plan Views; Wall and Floor Installation (ICA Variations) 2004 burnt
umber oil pigment on paper 38 x 50 inches each in 2 parts 96.5 x 127 cm signed» B Le Va 04» on reverse BL0687
Rob Douglas's «Harmonic Oscillation» is a yellow and brown contemporary abstract
acrylic oil pigment on panel that measures 10 x 15 and is priced at $ 4,400.
Onto this base Kelly then lays down
impasto oil pigments with a trowel style brush, fragmenting the assemblage further.
When I started painting with
metallic oil pigments in Santa Barbara in 1970, I believed I was working somewhere between the two — between hard - edge and minimal art — then later decided that the term «minimal painting» was an oxymoron.
He employs his painterly arsenal: mounds of
dense oil pigment, torn and reassembled bits of burlap, to create a large scale head derived from a Matisse painting or a sculpture consisting of an assemblage of pieces of alabaster or rare and exotic wood evoking three dimensional marquetry to create the imposing «Menina» or the «Dama a Caballo» derived from the paintings of Diego Velázquez.
Instead, the paint sits more on the surface without, however, maintaining the tactile firmness identified with even
thin oil pigment.
Keltie Ferris is a New York - based artist who, armed with a spray paint of
vaporized oil pigments, has developed a fresh and entirely original abstract language.
Aspidium, Aspenium, Pteris, 2011
Oil pigment on canvas 39 x 63 1/2 inches Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY Photo: Jean Vong
The wax itself has been infused
with oil pigments and poured into steel frames; as it hardens he «massages» the surface, a gesture that creates valleys that the patterns fall into.
In Untitled (Green Butterfly M. Grotjahn 03) from 2003, the monarch orange typography against the bright, shiny, grass green of
the oil pigment is jarring.
Thomason achieves a similarly textural surface by adding marble dust to
oil pigment, and exploring a gestural language indebted to notions of the body, language, and punctuation marks.
Oil pigment on paper, dimensions variable.