Sentences with phrase «opaque surface marks»
If, then, in its broad definition, abstraction serves to reveal the unseen, for both DeFeo and Grotjahn, it perversely serves as a material diary of intense meditations whose specific revelations remain as impenetrable as their characteristically opaque surface marks.
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If we adopt the screen then as the emblem of the contemporary optic, we presumably regard contemporary painting as somehow marking a return to a quasi-classical conception of its task as one of illusionistic affect... The intelligence lies in suggesting that materiality can persist as a key affective dimension of painting only if its terms are re-written... Recent paintings, like Michael Stubbs's work towards a diminished materiality, resulting in something more akin to the continuous surface associated with the varnished skin of an Old Master painting than to the opaque porosity of a Hofmann or Still.
Close - ups of Gianna Commito's abstract painting reveal the textured mark making that results from taping the surface and layering translucent and opaque paints.