"Paint strokes" refers to the movements or techniques used when applying paint to a surface, often with a brush. It can also describe the visible marks left by the brush on the finished artwork.
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From there, the dialogue evolved into deeper curiosity, ultimately asking, could you define a piece of work from the very
first paint stroke?
It displays a mixture of abstract geometric forms and
textured paint strokes that are free from any specific subject matter.
As you move from one installation to the next, you are drawn into a complex reflection captured in
paint strokes on a wide variety of media.
The owner - painters here are usually onsite, and are happy to show you around and tell about how the dot processes or
special painting strokes are applied.
An incredible use of greens,
rough paint strokes but so particular and necessary; they described a secret place.
And now comes a major retrospective for the painter, whose colorful paintings typically feature
parallel paint strokes arranged to create abstract, cosmic landscapes.
The completed image thus depicts two separate landscapes, and two seasons, in a single image mediated
by paint strokes.
While de Kooning's work captures the speed
of paint strokes on canvas, paradoxically, he was known at times to spent months completing a single work.
Paintings # 650 to # 656, made with acrylic, alkyd, and oil on polyester, display gestural
paint strokes in unearthly pale colors, mostly on a white background.
These larger works, which focus on female images, emotionally link broad
paint strokes with manic scribbles.
The arcs of the shadows of the
black paint strokes move across the works as the sun moves through the sky, altering the works composition.
True to the parameters of abstract expressionist painting, you will find a lot of
gestural paint strokes and thickly applied paint, usually favoring line over shape, but each artist represented here is more than a token of the movement, and worthy of inclusion.
7 Such independence and neutrality are foregrounded in the prominent brushstrokes that occur at the top of Collection's three panels: the light blue - green scumble at the left, the compact
blue paint stroke in the center, and the mixture of blue and white at the far right.
At Purdy Hicks meanwhile, Finnish artist Sandra Kantanen hypnotises with a semi-real vision of nature, creating photographs of vivid landscapes which seemingly melt
into painted strokes.
The exhibition spanned the last fifteen years of the artist's life and included one painting from 1964, «The Year 1964,» an abstraction consisting two black, blocky shapes swimming in a largely gray field of vertical and
horizontal paint strokes overlaid across swatches and scribbles in pink and red.
About lines and strokes, about
painting paint strokes, telling a story, using the grid, moving from figure and landscape space, making the work narrative, isolating strokes, thinking about the anatomy of a painting... being able to see the process the painting went through, the ground, pencil lines, paste, gel, paint.
The highly textured
paint strokes canvases, often in monochrome or two tones, have captured the interest of audiences in the West and Asia alike recently, with primary market prices shooting up 200 percent from 2014 to 2016, according to Artsy.
He took a
few paint strokes with the shaving cream on it's own, and then we started adding — here we've got red food colouring and sparkles (the edible ones for decorating — but don't eat the shaving cream!).
This is a beautiful white diaper with
rainbow paint strokes and flowers in the background with the words «Love My Cloth Diapers.»
Since there's no adhesion between the foil and the pumpkin, it is super important to make sure your
spray paint strokes go from the foil towards the bottom of the pumpkin.
The scenes are rich and detailed, but this time the color tones are more somber and
digital paint strokes a bit coarser around the edges, creating a suitably desolate feeling.
«I am no bird...,» the current group exhibition at ltd los angeles, highlights the discomfort of identity straying too far from itself, lensed through another — like
straying paint strokes, out of bounds on Sarah Faux's Just like that (good girl)(2017).
A stretched canvas forms the work's primary structure; loosely applied paint, punctuated by an isolated cluster of thick,
frenetic paint strokes, consolidates multiple layers of paper and fabric fragments, concealing much of the surface.
Comic strips, squirts of oil paint, art magazine illustrations, and a host of textiles jostle for attention, and gestural
paint strokes drawn directly from the vocabulary of Abstract Expressionism carry the same compositional weight as newspaper clippings of car thefts and department store advertisements.
Scribbled paint strokes blur the punchlines of comics, drips of white paint collide with a thick red line squeezed right from the paint tube, and bits of headlines such as «Dandruff may be the beginning of baldness» jump out amid abstract patches of pink, red, and yellow.
Her edgy, figurative canvases sizzle with bold women in various stages of undress, and black cats whose hisses resound through her
confident paint strokes.
In her essay for Diamond's 1990 show at Robert Miller Gallery, the poet Eileen Myles noted that: «Martha Diamond seems to be painting «the present,» whether it's big or little parts of buildings, specks of dust or
paint strokes floating in a raspberry sky...»
Artists now process information rather than material or even constructed experiences; viewed through this theoretic lens, even if an artist paints color - field paintings in 2014, the
resulting paint strokes are the consequence of reprocessed information.
Kerstin Brätsch (b. 1979, Hamburg, Germany) analyzes
how paint strokes are simultaneously reflexive and allusive through her abstract paintings.
Sometimes a giant hot pink and
orange paint stroke breathily layered next to gold and emerald green is just a fantastic thing to experience.
6 This was something, he argued, that Rauschenberg assiduously countered with the addition of
casual paint strokes across the surface of his embedded photographs, «to recall [the picture plane's] irreducible flatness.»
The first painting in this series, Work No. 508 (Black Painting) 2006 is composed of a stack of horizontal rectangular bands similar to Work No. 1103 except that the sequence of
painted strokes reverses so that the thinnest band is at the bottom with the strokes getting thicker towards the top.
Ecstatic Contact, glows in fluorescent pink and red handprints, spray - painted dots, and
linear paint strokes.
With roughly coiled lines, intense colors, and a scabrous surface, Lobdell seems to be expressing the struggle of humankind, as
raw paint strokes metamorphose into gnashing teeth in headless jaws.»
In his incredible series Rosh, which means «head» in Yiddish, artist Chris Dorosz finds a unique use for paint by creating four small three - dimensional busts, each made up of
suspended paint strokes.
Using emphatic but
controlled paint strokes, dabs, drips, and smears, these images simultaneously recede and approach in terms of abstraction and figuration, which cleverly simulates the equivalent qualities of memory as a sensory experience.