Not exact matches
Painted in 56 carefully calibrated shades ranging from white to black, the works
gradate subtly from light to dark, creating a perspectival illusion that suggests the wall is gently curving into the corner.
Her
paintings are chaotic yet controlled patterns of
gradated color.
She begins a work by covering the canvas with
gradated colour, and in works like Menso, 2016, and Lya, 2016, these first
paint layers are revealed in the final design, taking on a primacy, and in the case of Lüür, 2015, a three - dimensionality through
painted shadows that lift the squirming form off the flat of the canvas and in to space.
Many people who may not even have heard of Munch know his
painting, «The Scream» (also known as «The Cry» or «The Scream of Nature»), depicting a bridge walk at sunset of a figure paralyzed and yelling in fear as ambiguous figures lurk behind him and
gradated strands of bloody light arch above and reflect in the ominous waters below.
Abts is an abstract painter who
paints elegant (yes, that slightly damning word) ribbons and zigg - zagging lines and intersecting and oscillating planes in
gradated shades of bright colours.
Less surprisingly, the aesthetic has popped up in contemporary
painting, where its signature, evenly
gradated planes have been flattened and distilled to their extremes.
The back wall is
painted in
gradated neon orange that brings to mind a nuclear flash, gallery benches are dripping and melting into the floor, and a large - scale symbolic sculpture holds court in the center.
Ever since his softly overpainted Views of Corsica series of 1968 - 69, the artist has revisited and reprised its possibilities, creating black - and - white townscapes based on newspaper picture and amateur photographs, mountain and park scenes with heavy impasto, illusionistic seascapes in subtly
gradated tones and
paintings worked with abstract overpainting.
His idiosyncratic
gradated stripes are then overlaid on the figurative image or used to create standalone abstract
paintings.
For example, there is the evocative imagery that can result from Maine's own process of stamping carpet textures onto canvas; or the «acrylic, stains, and spray
paint on wood panel» by Jaq Chartier that somehow come to resemble photographic emulsion; or the acrylics on canvas by Thomas Pihl of subtly
gradated color that seem like translucent screens of light.
In Graham Boyd «s Descender (1976) the large canvas has undergone a process of masking and spray
painting resulting in a series of subtly
gradated narrow bands of rich colour creating an undulating optical space.
2 Go for gradation A cloakroom is an ideal backdrop for experimenting with
gradated paint effects as it is usually a compact area and easy to repaint if necessary.