Her signature paint - thinning technique, in which she diluted the oil
paint with turpentine, coupled with an entirely revolutionary method of staining (rather than dripping or brushing paint onto) the canvas undoubtedly changed the course of art history and influenced the likes of Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis and Jules Olitski.
She heavily diluted the oil
paint with turpentine so that the color would soak into the canvas.
His painting is typified by a process of reduction; he erodes a monochrome ground of
paint with turpentine to reveal the spatial possibilities of the picture plane.
Callum Innes» paintings have always sought to reveal the spatial possibilities of the picture plane by a process of removing and eroding
paint with turpentine.
Using a restricted palette, Yun applied layers of pigment to raw canvas in vertical or horizontal bands interspersed with blank space; working on his studio floor, he diluted
the paint with turpentine so that it would gradually bleed into the support.
In these works, the artist thinned oil
paint with turpentine to the consistency of ink and spontaneously let the work, in his words, «pour out.»
Rather than using paint thickly and opaquely so that it sits upon the surface of the canvas, Frankenthaler thinned her oil
paint with turpentine to the consistency of watercolor.
She applied this to the processes of art - making: Frankenthaler defied rules about painting as well as printmaking, most consequentially when she thinned
her paint with turpentine and poured it directly onto raw canvas, in a manner that radically redirected so - called Color Field abstraction.
Gorky thinned
his paint with turpentine and might have applied it with a turkey baster.
Frankenthaler began her departure from Pollock by thinning her oil
paint with turpentine and then pouring it directly on to the bare canvas.
Like de Kooning's paintings of the period, Baselitz's new works impart a watercolor - like fluidity, achieved through the thinning of oil
paints with turpentine and their swift, loose application.
A key moment in Frankenthaler's career took place when she began thinning
her paints with turpentine so that they would be absorbed into the fabric of the canvas.
Working with a large canvas on the floor, the artist thinned her oil
paints with turpentine and poured directly onto the canvas.
She thinned
her paints with turpentine and applied washes of color onto unprimed canvas.
Not exact matches
When injected into the oil reservoir, it mixes
with the oil and mobilizes more of it — like
turpentine cleaning
paint — and then allows it to be pumped to the surface.
A wet glaze is what we used for the freesias, and can be generally defined as
paint that has been diluted using
turpentine (
with optional linseed oil or dammar varnish).
Ambiguous features can morph from immense beauty into utter despair,
with hints of the eyes breaking the surface beneath layers of
paint, charcoal,
turpentine, expressive brush strokes and often physical DNA from the artists» fingertips.
It's never poured, I prep a tin in which I mix up a couple of tubes of oil
paint with a lot of
turpentine, a lot or a little less depending on what I want to do.
Where Pollock had used enamel that rested on raw canvas like skin, Ms. Frankenthaler poured
turpentine - thinned
paint in watery washes onto the raw canvas so that it soaked into the fabric weave, becoming one
with it.
You can almost smell the struggle inside Lehmann Maupin this month — it's mixed liberally
with turpentine, linseed oil, and the scent of fresh
paint.
If I don't use it, the fact that I have studied it somehow help me in
painting just ordinary
with turpentine.
Before Arshile Gorky used
paints thinned
with turpentine for Abstract Expressionism's most fluid creations, he boasted of his thick surfaces.
In a recent interview
with the Wall Street Journal, Innes explained «I make a
painting and work
with the surface, then dissolve it, taking it off
with turpentine.
There are smaller
paintings than this, some of theme equally concerned
with the process of
painting, and
with the «deliberately accidental», Callum Innes «s words for the process he adopts of dividing the canvas into two,
painting a quarter
with a flat colour leaving the other quarter exposed, and then taking the same colour and applying it to the other half of the canvas before «unpainting» it by rubbing it off
with turpentine, leaving a ghost of the original colour.
«A pair of socks,» as Rauschenberg maintained, «is no less suitable to make a
painting with than wood, nails,
turpentine, oil and fabric.»
Ms. Steir's use of runny
paint — a mixture that is probably nine parts
turpentine to one part pigment — helps us link the work
with waterfalls or rainstorms or vistas consumed by mist.
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).
While Newman's work reeled viewers into a color field, Swavely's
paintings resist close inspection, for as one approaches, the brushstrokes that once felt voluminous fall flat, having been washed away by
turpentine - soaked rags scrubbed across canvas heavy
with oil.
Paintings such as these, made
with a mixture of oil color,
turpentine and wax, looked like the end of something — either a culmination or a cul - de-sac — when they were first shown.
The city's first major exhibition of Frankenthaler's work in more than five decades, the exhibition explores her return to gestural improvisation after years spent developing her «soak - stain» technique (soaking her raw canvas
with turpentine - thinned
paint).
Coming on Avery's heels, Frankenthaler developed her «soak - stain» technique, in which
paint thinned
with turpentine is poured directly onto an unprimed canvas.
Coming on Avery's heels, Frankenthaler developed her «soak - stain» technique, in which
paint thinned
with turpentine is
Defacement again came into productive play
with Wool's Untitled (2007), spray -
painted on linen and rubbed raw
with turpentine, and Guston's North (1961 — 2), which used a similar method of scribbles of black
paint bleeding into a white ground to produce dense passages of grey.
Rendered
with oil
paints thinned down
with turpentine on linen canvases, Vecsey's reduced shapes are saturated
with color.
Callum Innes
paints large rectangles in Scheveningen black, then all but washes out the black
with turpentine until one sees shades of green and blue.
Most of his
paintings are made by «un-
painting» as well as
painting: A language that he has made his own; oil
paint is applied in layers and dissolved away
with turpentine, forming something quietly and unexpectedly beautiful.
A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a
painting with than wood, nails,
turpentine, oil and fabric.
She had previously been using
turpentine - thinned oil
paints to create her seminal soak - stain
paintings, but she became dissatisfied
with the way the oil
paint interacted
with her unprimed canvases.
... oil
paint mixed
with turpentine to, roughly, the consistency of ink, I had a similar «outpouring», though I made less than a hundred works which I call the Drunk with Turpentine series, a title that no matter how evocative, is als
turpentine to, roughly, the consistency of ink, I had a similar «outpouring», though I made less than a hundred works which I call the Drunk
with Turpentine series, a title that no matter how evocative, is als
Turpentine series, a title that no matter how evocative, is also literal.
These pictures were based on a 1979 series of oil - on - paper
paintings, Drunk
with Turpentine, which Motherwell had generated by the process of automatism.
Using
turpentine in conjunction
with oil
paints Innes thins and removes layers, revealing underlying colours and leaving the evidence of his process on the canvas.
What does a six - year - old do
with oil
paint and
turpentine and all those things?
Finally, oil
paint thinned
with turpentine was applied to depict the woman and unthinned oils were used for the beads and the colours on her chest.
Two years later Schneemann would create several assemblages in small boxes, filling them
with materials, fixing them
with resin and
paint, then drenching them in
turpentine.
Brought together and exhibited for the first time since the mid»80s, these romantically melancholy, expressionist oil
paintings feature isolated individuals that materialize out of dark, ill - defined backgrounds that Spero laboriously
painted, repainted, and wiped down
with turpentine - soaked rags.
His
paintings are created through a process of addition and subtraction, sometimes removing sections of
paint from the canvases surface
with turpentine to leave only the faintest traces of what was there before.
In fact, it's downright fun to imagine being one of Katz's female muses, up in his sun - drenched Soho studio, slightly high on
turpentine fumes, watching him zealously cut into his
paints with his palette knife, as enamored
with the process as ever.
She developed her famous «soak stain'technique, in which she applied
paint thinned out
with turpentine directly to raw, unprimed canvas.
Turpentine is dripped to let
paint run where it will, so that the resulting image appears as a strong, luminous core
with a frail, random edge.
In other words, there is a wide range of compositional devices that are, on the one hand, very elegiac,
with carefully cut - out biomorphic shapes,
painted often
with high - keyed colors to subordinate the quasi-rectilinearities of, let's say, a found chair, a
turpentine container, or flanks of wood, etc..