Instead of creating his own imagery, John Baldessari took actual film stills as the starting point for some of his works: cutting them, hand -
painting dots over figures» identifying features, and otherwise altering them.
Not exact matches
Step 2: Once the teal
paint is completely dry, use all three sizes of foam stipplers to
dot the teal glitter
paint randomly, all
over the pumpkin.
This name means dawning,
painting a glorious picture in one's mind's eye of the sun peaking up
over the rolling Italian landscape, a pink lemonade sky
dotted with fluffy cotton clouds as it's backdrop.
Once the
paint has dried, apply glue
dots in a random pattern then sprinkle glitter
over the eggs for a sparkling polka
dot effect.
And super creative, to do the
dots and then
paint over them!!
I
painted polka
dots on this one then white washed
over that.
After the gold polkadots were complete I place the gold glitter
paint over the gold polka
dots to give it some sort of sparkle or sheen like the original Kate Spade Keds have.
Just
over 1,300 (3.6 %) of these birds have been subsequently re-found, showing us exactly where some Golden Gate raptors have traveled —
painting a beautiful map of
dots from northern British Columbia to central Mexico, and from Idaho to the Farallon Islands.
Many of Dan Christensen's bar
paintings relate to my line
paintings of 1968 - 1969 which in turn relate to Peter Young's all
over dot paintings which in turn relate to Larry Poons» all
over dot paintings which also relate to Dan Christensen's line
paintings whose close valued color fields relate to Marden, Pettet and Humphrey.
The actual plastic supports are relatively thick, and in keeping with the earlier work, on each of their sides the artist has
painted a row of thick black
dots, suggestive of nails holding down canvas that has been stretched
over the frame.
In his large ellipse
paintings of 1967 Poons made dramatic pictorial and compositional changes that moved away from his all
over dot paintings.
These minimal compositions may look familiar today, but it helps to recall that the dawn of the 20th century was still the time when Monet obsessively rendered his water lilies and Seurat fastidiously labored
over the Grand Jatte one
paint dot at a time... This was a time of the industrial revolution, broad social and political changes that found their reflections in the changing pictorial and musical themes of the first decades of the 20th century.
The Brazilian - born artist works with photography and
painting to make mixed - media artworks that take cues from John Baldessari's renowned
dot works by
painting circles and geometric lines
over black - and - white photographs of landscapes.
Text or language characters which constitute the rudiments of abbreviated communication — emoticons, x's, and
dots of varying size and scale — stretch
over the entirety of the canvas, commingling digital lexicons with the
painted surface.
Although the Japanise artist Yayoi Kusama creates in a diverse field that consists of everything from
painting to sculpture, every single piece she ever produced has one same motif all
over it — endless
dots.
An enduring feature of Kusama's unique art is the intricate lattice of
paint that covers the surface of her Infinity Net canvases, the negative spaces between the individual loops of these all -
over patterns emerging as delicate polka
dots.
Among the works that did well were Lot 16, a charming small sculpture, one of three examples down in 1945 - 6, by David Smith, shown above, that sold for $ 220,000 (not including the buyer's premium) and had had a high estimate of $ 150,000; Lot 5, «Atantolone,» a gloss household
paint on canvas of colored
dots on a white field that sold for $ 170,000 (not including the buyer's premium), well
over its high estimate of $ 120,000; Lot 14, a large 1943
painted wood and wire sculpture, «Constellation,» by Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) that sold for $ 1,982,500 (including the buyer's premium), more than double its high estimate, and Lot 24, a larger Calder sculpture, «Trepied,» that sold near its low estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 20, a large and very interesting and abstract but not very colorful 1953 Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992), «Two Figures at a Window,» that sold above its $ 1.2 million high estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 27, «Tour III» by Brice Marden (b. 1938) that sold within its estimates for $ 1,487,500 (including the buyer's premium), tying the artist's record; Lot 41, «Grillo,» by Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) that sold for $ 1,102,500 (including the buyer's premium), also within its pre-sale estimates; and Lot 31, «Vierwaldstätte See,» a large black and white 1969 landscape by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) that sold for $ 1,047,500 near its low estimate of $ 1 million.
MS. LARSEN: And I always went
over to the County Museum and thought — you know, those
paintings that have a lot of, like,
dots and linear patterns and --
Over time, her
paintings became less formal and a little more woozy, the palate went from primary colors to jewel tones, squares and rectangles gave way to the occasional rogue polka
dot.
In these new
paintings, «layer upon layer of translucent
paint has taken
over the roles once played by the
dots.
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery attracted private and institutional collectors and curators, and finished the day with a $ 450,000 sale of one of their Beauford Delaney
paintings; Lehmann Maupin reported «strong sales throughout the preview» on
paintings by Hernan Bas, which range from $ 30,000 — 200,000 each; Marian Goodman Gallery associate director Emily - Jane Kirwan told us their Giuseppe Penone booth garnered «fantastic interest»; Mnuchin Gallery partner Sukanya Rajaratnam noted that reception of their booth was «extremely positive»; and by 7:30 pm, two of Betty Cuningham's Bill Traylor works, each priced
over $ 100,000, had been
dotted red (a pricing practice the dealer still embraces).
The desert
dot paintings are often aerial landscapes
painted from memory
over many painstaking hours.
At the same time, the artist's frame is joyously decorated with all
over yellow polka
dots imbuing the entire object with a sense of levity and turning an otherwise two - dimensional
painting into a near - three - dimensional tableau.
As a final flourish, Cain
painted an off - kilter grid of big, dark - gray polka
dots over everything.
Thomas Downing, like Anthony Caro, was a great explorer of forms and movement, and this untitled
painting on canvas of repeat
dot irregular patterns is historically a fascinating picture when you consider it was executed prior to 1960,
over forty years before Yayoi Kusuma's overall
dot paintings and Damien Hirst's recent massive spot
paintings.
Mesmerising and immersive, they are made up of thousands of tiny
dots of
paint, each individual and distinct, yet together forming constellations that float
over their surfaces, whether canvas or paper.
The artworks explode with energy as his obsessively
painted white
dots rise
over his photographic canvases like clouds of smoke.
The show brings together
over 100
paintings, drawings and sculptures by the pop artist, who's best - known for his works based on comic strips and advertising imagery, colored with his signature hand -
painted dots.
I
painted polka
dots on this one then white washed
over that.
For creating your own spatterware pumpkin, the folks at Country Living suggest
painting your gourd all one color, letting it dry, and then
painting on
dots and blobs all
over it in various sizes.