Sentences with phrase «paint a drip composition»

His drip style did not inspire imitators precisely because it was so strikingly unique; whereas the gestural painters of the fifties could try out the autographic brushwork of Willem de Kooning or Franz Kline, or Philip Guston without necessarily producing a baldly derivative work, no one could paint a drip composition that did not look like a weak Pollock.

Not exact matches

While the style of «drip» painting has become synonymous with the name Jackson Pollock, here the artist has autographed the work even more directly, with several handprints found at the composition's upper right.

He then used paint pouring as one of several techniques on canvases, such as «Male and Female» and «Composition with Pouring I.» After his move to Springs, he began painting with his canvases laid out on the studio floor, and he developed what was later called his «drip» technique, turning to synthetic resin - based paints called alkyd enamels, which, at that time, was a novel medium.

Starting from an abstracted image of a waterfall — paint which has been left to literally drip down across the painting's surface — Steir's paintings borrow from the vertical compositions of Chinese landscape painting and reference the metaphysical power of the waterfall as a symbol connecting heaven and earth.

Within the grids and lines on the canvas are not small squares of flat, immobile color, but drips and dimples of very active paint — as if each square could also be a composition unto itself.

Her dynamic compositions, layered with drips and splatters of paint, epitomize the «action painting» of the 1950s.

Although at first glance Winters's images look as if they could have been made by a child, closer attention reveals sly art historical references to Jackson Pollock and Pattern Painting (the drip and splatter backgrounds), Mark Rothko (the three - part horizontal compositions) and Minimalism (the gridded Cherry Block Series: Bread Beat).

The gathering reveals an ambitious, sometimes awkward painter devoted to working in the open air who felt compelled to respond to Jackson Pollock and the radical allover compositions of his abstract drip paintings.

Her playful acrylic abstractions on paper focus more on the geometric patterning of interlocking diagonals, which she breaks up with loosely applied paint, dripping through the composition.

These works were a riposte to abstract - expressionist pictures, such as Jackson Pollock's «drip» paintings; the compositions were more radical and the process of producing them more intense.

The «drips» do add a quixotic complexity to the work, but it the composition is already remarkably strong and the painting's almost fleeting glimpse of color other than white and black is actually more exciting.

The catalogue notes of the work, shown below, that «The passages of dripping paint, which run counter to the painting's vertical format, embolden the architectonic composition, creating the dynamic tension of opposites that is the hallmark of Kline's abstractions.»

The collection is not just a big - name checklist, however: also on view are paintings by self - taught artist Janet Sobel, whose claim to fame is three sentences about her 1945 pre-Pollock «drip» compositions written by the critic Clement Greenberg.

There are characteristics that seem uniquely hers — the row of evenly spaced drips, or the use of paint and marker in the same composition.

The gallery is a pitched battle about painting versus drawing, figure - ground versus all - over composition; stained versus impastoed surfaces; mythic versus biomorphic forms; and who dripped first.

These wavering, evanescent structures, with their intimations of the cosmos, echo with surprising directness paintings from the same period, when the all - over composition of Jackson Pollock's drip paintings inspired the development of a unified, undifferentiated image in the work of a number of artists.

Sam Francis's untitled monotype composition signals the culmination of the artist's career - long investigation of abstract painterly procedures: the aggressively stroked red field and chance application of colorful drips and blots energize the surface of this broad horizontal frame, synthesizing the dynamism of Jackson Pollock's drip paintings and the powerfully reductive aesthetics of Color Field painting of the 1940s and 50s.

Instead of brush strokes, Rifai drips and rolls his paint, layering saturated surfaces with grids of wavering lines, creating compositions that tend toward the definition of a new visual language.

Yves Klein's «Untitled Fire Colour Painting (FC 28),» an abstract composition from 1962 of scorched golden - traces of fire and his signature blue drips was expected to sell for $ 1.69 million to $ 2.5 million.

He was simultaneously making esoteric, quasi-theosophical compositions, startling drip and spatter paintings that anticipate abstract expressionism, and poetic landscapes.

Dropping pieces of cut paper onto a surface and gluing them down where they lay; dripping or flinging paint across a canvas; letting the progressive decay of organic materials determine a composition; and flipping coins to compose a musical scores — these are some of the processes used by artists included in the volume that both tap into the creative potential of chance and control its operation.

Having used sheets of newspaper to protect the surfaces of the studio while painting the objects, and upon observing the resultant drips and slicks that obscured the newspaper images, Spremberg discovered startling compositions in which the variegated paint both disrupted and distorted the original photograph.

I try to utilize them into the composition and not just make a so - called drip painting, which I think are kind of boring.»

Both artists use muscular, paint loaded brushstrokes, wet paint and its drips, heavy impastos that create relief in crowded compositions bursting with energy.

Small areas of bright red are dispersed across the composition; some are rectangular blotches of thick, smooth paint and others are drips and streaks of fluid paint.