Sentences with phrase «painting thick black lines»

After some 30 years painting thick black lines and flat planes of color («I called it Cloisonism, which was a 19th century practice which Van Gogh was involved with for a time») the artist considered himself stuck.

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In Chestnut (1955), the painting's white field is broken along the center, as if a chestnut tree were pushing through the pigment; and in Red, blue, black (1957), the thick, dark red ground gives way at the center to black calligraphed lines concentrated within dense gestural brushwork.

[13] Begun around 2001, the Piths, canvases with deliberately frayed edges and covered in thick black strokes of paint, indicate Truitt's interest in forms that blur the lines between two and three dimensions.

What is slightly different with the Hong Kong show is the centerpiece of the show is not a painting with icons covered by thick black lines.

In an untitled 1997 abstract seascape that is mostly blue sky, she painted two thick black lines (birds) with drop shadows for a trompe l'oeil effect.

In Black Hole Universe Blom's lines were fuzzy and thick; here they are calligraphic, rhythmic, and full of movement like that of an Asian tiger painting.

What is prominent in both films and paintings is the presence of thick black lines which disrupt rather than promote unity within composition.

In his recent paintings, however, in which he lays down thick layers of black paint and then scratches through the tarlike surfaces until the white under - painting reveales itself in slightly wavering lines, Maffei has entered a territory all his own.

Long fascinated by geology and prehistoric cave paintings, Penck filled the canvas with a standing stick figure in thick black lines.

Here, thick, colliding slabs of white and red paint, and splashes of blood red, black, orange and white, nearly obliterate collaged patches of black - and - white checkerboard fabric, which recalls a finish - line flag.

Now known for squiggly black lines, thick impasto paint, and bright bold colors, the early paintings show the beginning of issues he would continue to mine in painting for the next thirty years.

Appel's use of thick black lines and paint is highly expressionistic, and is similar in its sculptural aspect to the thick impasto of Frank Auerbach (b. 1931).

His paintings, with bright colors outlined by thick black lines, are charged with energy.

The American street artist Keith Haring is famous for his instantly recognizable style of urban graffiti art - executed in marker ink, acrylic and Day - Glo paint - with its thick black lines and distinctive cartoon - like figures and forms.

Richard Pousette - Dart's «Mythic Heads and Forms,» abstract paintings which span the decade of the 1930s, with their elliptical organization of thick black lines that forcefully yet almost imperceptibly shift space, have an immediate impact, in the sense of both sureness and conviction.

He also painted striking still lifes and interiors, such as Birdcage, Two Vases, and Flowers of 1981, a strongly abstracted work in which thick black lines describe objects in a room filled with quickly applied areas of vivid color that enliven the space and provide balance to the composition.

In Metaphysical Fantasy No. 10 (1960), for example, Law reworks the line in paint and fills the frame with thick black paint.

Images: Craig Drennen, Painter D (detail), 2011, Graphite, spray paint, acrylic, oil, alkyd on paper, 50 × 50 inches, Courtesy the artist and SALTWORKS Jennifer West, A 70MM Film Wearing Thick Heavy Black Liquid Eyeliner That Gets Smeary (70MM film leader lined with liquid black eyeliner, doused with Jell - O vodka shots and rubbed with body glitter), 2008, film transferred to digital video, no sound, 30 seconds, Courtesy the artist and Marc Foxx, Los AnBlack Liquid Eyeliner That Gets Smeary (70MM film leader lined with liquid black eyeliner, doused with Jell - O vodka shots and rubbed with body glitter), 2008, film transferred to digital video, no sound, 30 seconds, Courtesy the artist and Marc Foxx, Los Anblack eyeliner, doused with Jell - O vodka shots and rubbed with body glitter), 2008, film transferred to digital video, no sound, 30 seconds, Courtesy the artist and Marc Foxx, Los Angeles

The depictive black lines are undone by strokes of thick gray paint, and this method is repeated throughout the course of one painting.

On arrival, visitors are greeted by four large - scale works that are illustrative of a typical Waterfall painting: thick horizontal lines made in the upper reaches of the 3 - metre tall canvas, from which rivulets of paint dribble down over a background, creating a dichrome image, often tending to shades of black and white.