Partially inspired by women hanging laundry on clotheslines he observed from the window of his Washington studio, Gilliam abandoned the frame and stretcher, and began to drape and suspend large areas of
paint stained canvas.
This six part work involved several hundred feet of
paint stained canvas, and was commissioned for the exterior walls of two adjacent wings of the museum.
Today many of her oil
paint stained canvases are deteriorating.
Not exact matches
The 80 - year - old Sam Gilliam, known for his ravishing color - field
canvases that he sometimes drapes sculpturally on the wall,
painted a monumental
canvas stained and splattered all over with hot pinks and reds, titled Red April (1970), in direct response to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968.
In her introduction Samet notes: «Although Gilliam is best known for his «Drape»
paintings — unstretched
canvases stained in vibrant pigments and extended into three - dimensional space — the surfaces of the
paintings he has made over a fifty - plus - year career are actually quite diverse.
Still Life with Orange Stripes and Three BB Holes / 2015 / Oil, acrylic, gesso and mud with polymer medium, ink, marker, spray
paint and smoke
stain on
canvas / 48» x 36» / $ 6,500
The combination of unprimed
canvas, synthetic
paint mediums and techniques such as
staining made it possible for them to
paint in new ways, sometimes without a brush, to achieve the desired effects.
Still Life with
Painted Pear and Lower Case Letter O / 2015 / oil, acrylic, spray
paint, glue, mud with polymer medium, gesso, ink, smoke
stains, and floor sweepings on
canvas / 84» x 30» / PLS INQ
In one large gallery
stain painting is rebelliously pushed off the stretched
canvas in vibrantly colored and variously two - sided, sewn, beaded and torn works by Manny Farber, Alan Shields and Alvin Loving.
When I first started doing the
stain paintings, I left large areas of
canvas unpainted, I think, because the
canvas itself acted as forcefully and as positively as
paint or line or color.
Keyser's
canvases are open books, flayed,
stained, and / or augmented compositions imbued with visual narrative and reinventions of
painting itself.
Still Life with Four Blue - Green Stripes, Two BB Holes and White Drips / 2015 / oil, acrylic, spray
paint, glue, mud with polymer medium, gesso, ink, smoke
stains, and floor sweepings on
canvas / 84» x 30» / PLS INQ
Color Field pioneer Sam Gilliam, for example, first applied acrylic
paint to raw, unprimed
canvas by
staining it like a piece of fabric, as realized in the sculpture -
painting hybrid Hedge Sky.
Still Life with BB Holes,
Painted Pear and Learn to Draw Rodent / 2015 / oil, acrylic, enamel, spray
paint, ink, gesso, and mud with polymer medium and smoke
stain on
canvas / 48» x 36» / PLS INQ
They also look to back color - field
painting, when
stained canvas for many critics came fraught with lightness and excess.
Still Life with Ten Red - Purple Stripes,
Painted Bite - Size Spiced Donuts and a BB Hole / 2015 / oil, acrylic, spray
paint, mud with polymer medium, gesso, wood glue, smoke
stains and floor sweepings on
canvas / 84» x 30» / PLS INQ
Having seen Jackson Pollock's 1951
paintings of thinned black oil
paint stained into raw
canvas, Helen Frankenthaler began to produce
stain paintings in varied oil colors on raw
canvas in 1952.
Her
staining method emphasized the flat surface over illusory depth, and it called attention to the very nature of
paint on
canvas, a concern of artists and critics at the time.
Often
staining both sides of the
canvas, her
paintings operate as fluid scrims between still life, color field and pattern and decoration.
Still Life with Two BB Holes and Drips / 2015 - 2016 / Oil, acrylic, spray
paint, gesso, ink, and mud with polymer medium and smoke
stain on
canvas / 48» x 48» / $ 7,500
The following year, with Mountains and Sea, 1952, she created another kind of painterly space by
staining unprimed
canvas with oil
paint while allowing telltale signs of drawing to remain.
Still Life with Orange Drips and
Painted Pumpkin / 2015 - 2016 / Oil, acrylic, enamel, spray
paint, ink, gesso and mud with polymer medium and smoke
stain on
canvas / 96» x 60» / $ 12,000
Brooks began diluting his oil
paint in order to have fluid colors with which to pour and drip and
stain into the mostly raw
canvas that he used.
His latest exhibition «Powder of Light currently on at Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York, combines acrylic, ink and spray
paint on a background texture of tea -
stained canvas.
The work proceeds to step entirely outside of their final iteration by exposing uncontrolled
stains and drips of bright green and red
paint on the
canvas» thick edges.
Back in the sixties, Morris Louis developed an innovative method of
painting by «
staining» his unprimed
canvases with thinned washes of acrylic pigments, and was one of the... read more... «Morris Louis unveiled»
Instead of resting on top of the
canvas, the
paint in this image
stained the
canvas — a significant feat in an era when avant - garde artists were fascinated with the flatness of
painting.
The artist
stains and pours
paint vertically on the
canvas, sometimes prodding it with a brush, and then she turns the work on its side so all the verticals read like horizon lines.
Artists realized that Jackson Pollock's process — the placing of unstretched raw
canvas on the floor where it could be attacked from all four sides using artist materials and industrial materials; linear skeins of
paint dripped and thrown; drawing,
staining, brushing; imagery and non-imagery — essentially took art - making beyond any prior boundary.
The exhibition will comprise a focused selection of large - scale
paintings by these artists from the late - 50s to the early - 70s, covering the first wave of
stained canvas techniques that would come to be referred to as «Color Field.»
Done by
staining diluted acrylic
paint onto raw, unsized
canvas — a technique Mr. Noland learned from Helen Frankenthaler — they consist of concentric circles in a variety of colors centered on a square
canvas.
The Newport Street exhibition is the first major show since Hoyland's death in 2011 and will reaffirm his status as an important and innovative force within international abstraction, providing new insights into the way in which his work evolved from the huge colour -
stained canvases of the 1960s, through the textured surfaces of the 1970s to the more spatially complex
paintings of the early 1980s.
Influenced by abstract expressionism, Gilliam experimented with methods of applying pigment, often pouring
paint,
staining canvases, and folding them while still wet.
Sigal's installation also included a large wall
painting and several smaller
canvases, combining images of
stained surfaces and observational landscapes.
His drips,
stains, and brushstrokes have a greater momentum, as if
paint had exploded out of the can and landed on Mylar or
canvas.
Her
paintings result from her varied processes of
staining, soaking,
painting, and stretching the
canvas until she decides which side is the front and which side is the back.
Artists realized that Jackson Pollock's process — placing unstretched raw
canvas on the floor where it could be attacked from all four sides using artistic and industrial materials; dripping and throwing linear skeins of
paint; drawing,
staining, and brushing; using imagery and nonimagery — essentially blasted artmaking beyond any prior boundary.
He poured and
stained paint into larger
canvases.
An unprimed surface is typically not treated with gesso or any other form of sizing, which in turn allows for the
paint to pool and
stain the
canvas.
An early and influential pioneer of Color Field
painting, Louis gained renown for his innovative method of
staining raw
canvases with washes of pigment to create vibrant, large - scale works.
Hard - edge
painting is characterized by large, simplified, usually geometric forms on an overall flat surface, precise, razor - sharp contours and broad areas of bright, unmodulated colour that have been
stained into unprimed
canvas.
He creates his Submersion
Paintings, in intense blues and saturated magentas, by
staining untreated
canvases with rich washes of acrylic
paint before applying a thick layer of gesso.
Alongside the
stained works, Komodore made bolder patterned
paintings using masking tape on primed
canvas.
His poetic use of found materials, printed and reproducible images, his unconventional and inventive mark - making, and his embrace of chance operations (whether dragging a
canvas on the ground, allowing a drop cloth to absorb
stains of nature and of the studio, or exposing the
paintings to the forces of weather) can be seen echoed within Schnabel's entire body of work as well as in the work of a subsequent generation of artists.
Working outwards from this moment, the exhibition traces several related phenomena: the artistic innovations of poured
paint and
stained raw
canvas; the social implications of decoration; authorial control vs. materiality; the body and
painting; and the image of the woman painter and related questions of gender and identity.
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).
Stained Color Field Abstraction was pioneered by Helen Frankenthaler.She diluted her
paints and poured them onto
canvases often lying on a floor or table.
Staining acrylic
paints into their
canvases rather than
painting onto primed
canvas set the Washington Color School artists apart from their California and New York counterparts.
During this period, she developed her influential «soak -
stain» technique, in which she poured thinned
paint directly onto raw, unprimed
canvas laid on the studio floor.
This application gave something of the effect of acrylic
paint stained into raw
canvas, a method of application that was common at the time.