Not exact matches
Approaches to oil
painting techniques include indirect
painting, whereby successive layers of
paint are added to build up a
painting's surface, as well as «wet into wet,» which
involves blending wet
paint directly
on the
canvas and is closely associated with alla prima
painting.
The plot thickens when the cantankerous coot put his protégé
on an unorthodox training regimen
involving painting his house instead of
canvases.
Approaches to oil
painting techniques include indirect
painting, whereby successive layers of
paint are added to build up a
painting's surface, as well as «wet into wet,» which
involves blending wet
paint directly
on the
canvas and is closely associated with alla prima
painting.
Approaches to oil
painting techniques include indirect
painting, whereby successive layers of
paint are added to build up a
painting's surface, as well as «wet into wet,» which
involves blending wet
paint directly
on the
canvas and is closely associated with alla prima
painting.
In the late 1940s, Jackson Pollock (1912 — 1956), now recognized as one of the most important Abstract Expressionist artists, began experimenting with a new method of
painting that
involved dripping, flinging and pouring
paint onto a
canvas laid flat directly
on the floor.
Just as with Cubism and Impressionism, the excitement that continues to awe viewers of works by Wilson, de Kooning, Pollock, Kline, Rothko and Gorky starts with the sheer energy
involved in the way these artists put
paint on canvas.
It usually features pieces of wood, wood shavings, or scraps, assembled
on a
canvas (if there is
painting involved), or
on a wooden board.
Initially, the airplanes were not only
painted but existed also as three - dimensional models that were mounted
on the
canvas and thereby, just as their two - dimensional pendants,
involved them in the field of the
painted «plane».
From 1967 to 1973, Thornton Willis worked
on a series of
paintings now called his «Slat Series»
involving a «wet
on wet» process working
on the floor
on large wet unstretched
canvas and using rollers with long extension handles to develop striped bands across the entire picture plane.
She chooses to push organic life to a level of entropy and encourage the viewer to put preconceived ideas of landscape
painting aside to become
involved with the world
on the
canvas before them.
«So,» he wrote, «it is the eye and the
paint — the
paint on canvas — with which I am
involved, allowing the
paint to have a chance and achieving a harmony between the two.»
Paint application
involves more than putting
paint on your brush and scrubbing it into the
canvas.
Pascali's other works
involving canvas include «Grande bacino di donna, mons Venus», and «Labbra rosse», these works were large flat
canvases that became three - dimensional sculptures through the use of wooden structures,
paint, and other materials, though they were still able to be hung
on the wall.
It's interesting that someone
involved just in the process of putting
paint on a
canvas would have this resounding ripple effect over the years.»
Also
on show will be Rauschenberg's Bed, 1955, (pictured second from top, right) a work massively ahead of its time, which
involved stretching his actual pillow and bed
on a
canvas frame and then layering in
paint.
Doug Reina's recent work
involves painting the figure while exploring ideas about how to manipulate the treatment of the
paint on the
canvas surface.
Pouring
paint directly onto a
canvas, this process
involves spilling different colors
on top of one another in order to produce unexpected, swirling patterns.
Anja Honisett (Melbourne, Australia) creates oil
paintings on canvas involving macro images of the human face.
Since the mid-1960s, Corse has developed an innovative technique that
involves mixing acrylic
paint with tiny glass beads commonly used in the white lines of lane dividers
on highways and
painting vertical bands onto the
canvas.
Artists have long incorporated objects into
paintings on canvas, but what should we call a work if no
paint or
canvas is
involved?
Just as you would expect from 18th and 19th century depictions of great battles, his oil
paintings feature various characters thrown together
on a single
canvas, each
involved in his or her own activity and reacting to the chosen situation in different ways.
Frankenthaler's invention of soak - stain, which
involved pouring turpentine - thinned oil
paint (and later, watered - down acrylic)
on a flat, untreated
canvas, opened doors to the next big thing, Color Field
painting.
CI The show that I had up last year
involved large oil
paintings on canvas and very large paper works which I made
on wax paper, a butcher's paper that has an oil impregnated in it.
Symbolically, Klein jumped out the window: he was
involved with gesture, process (his «women brushes»
painting with their bodies) and the symbolic (sponges soaked with his
paint on monochromatic blue
canvases).
Frottage Technique In the early 1920s, in his pursuit of Surrealist ideas of automatism in art, he developed a technique called frottage (rubbing)- which
involved placing objects under a
canvas layered in
paint, and then scraping back the
paint on the raised areas of the
canvas.
«Generally, my mixed - media works
involve a painterly ground
on paper or
canvas utilizing acrylic and latex
paints or inkwash, and then a «response» based
on the ground, which is composed digitally and layered atop the composition as a layer of silkscreen or pigment printing.
Gilliam's «quilted»
paintings of the 1980s
involved cutting geometric shapes from his thickly encrusted
canvas surfaces, and rearranging them
on nylon or
canvas backgrounds in patterns reminiscent of African American patchwork quilts the artist remembered from his childhood.
Nitsch's work at The Armory Show was also eye - catching, if not as controversial: blood - colored
paint splattered
on canvas, gory and glorious, but all contained to the wall and as far as we know not
involving the harm of any animals.
From the gas blow torch
involved in Bleckner's recent works; to the cement
on Yektai's
canvases; to the graphite at play in Matsutani's small and intimate Wave
on panel; to the Puerto Rican coffee bean bags used in Bernhardt's
paintings; each artist presents a use of material void of color and infused with a new interest and comfort of expression.
Whereas her
paintings on canvas usually
involve months of struggle before a composition is complete, the
paintings on paper liberate Jaffe to work more quickly and spontaneously, resulting in a refreshing immediacy that is no less impactful than the
canvas works.
The technique
involves pouring
paint directly onto the surface of unprimed, un-stretched
canvas spread out
on the floor then allowing the
paint to soak into the fibers and spread across the surface of its own accord.
Born
on January 28, 1912, in Cody, Wyoming, artist Jackson Pollock studied under Thomas Hart Benton before leaving traditional techniques to explore abstraction expressionism via his splatter and action pieces, which
involved pouring
paint and other media directly onto
canvases.
Jackson Pollock's drip technique
involved pouring industrial
paint directly
on raw
canvas, laid
on the floor.
Around 1980, a generation of artists who had been
involved in the radical strategies of the»70s rediscovered the possibilities of
painting on stretched
canvas, and working with oil
paint, figure / ground relationships, applying
paint with a brush instead of spraying or folding or pouring or staining.
In the catalog essay to Reinventing Abstraction, Rubinstein puts it this way: «Around 1980, a generation of artists who had been
involved in the radical strategies of the»70s rediscovered the possibilities of
painting on stretched
canvas, and working with oil
paint... applying
paint with a brush instead of spraying or folding or pouring or staining.
Approaches to oil
painting techniques include indirect
painting, whereby successive layers of
paint are added to build up a
painting's surface, as well as «wet into wet,» which
involves blending wet
paint directly
on the
canvas and is closely associated with alla prima
painting.