His complex work encourages the viewer to reflect on
the physical qualities of paint, reproduction and to be aware of painting procedures and the essential elements of the medium: form, line and colour.
The use of the squeegee proved to be an important innovation for Richter, as it enabled him to surrender a certain element of artistic control whilst enhancing
the physical qualities of the paint.
Jason Martin places
the physical qualities of paint at the centre of his practice.
As a viewer of your works, I am first and foremost drawn to
the physical qualities of your paintings — their jarring palette, their forms and shapes, their dimensionality and their extremely seductive reflective surfaces.
Not exact matches
My interest in the
physical, tactile
qualities of painting has been there from the beginning, and became more and more prominent, even in my abstract works.
These new
paintings explore the
physical qualities of light as both representational object and abstraction.
These images attain their effect largely from Cooke's instinctual and highly
physical handling
of paint, which endows it with an elemental
quality.
In Sticky Pictures, Werner makes visible the source material
of her
paintings — not only the subject in the photograph, but also the photograph itself; the material
quality of the printed image, its traces
of weathering, handling and use, its
physical presence as an object lying on the corner
of a table or hanging loosely on a wall, in a space that might be a studio.
The immersive, haptic
quality of Commito's
painting owes much to the
physical and sensory demands
of her process.
The idealized, abstract
quality of the forty - five objects displayed, including sculpture,
paintings, and several funerary masks, demonstrated the Egyptian belief that figurative representation was not only the
physical record
of an individual, but his / her link to immortality.
Klein's
physical layering
of materials lends an approachable yet mysterious
quality to his
paintings.
Riley's
paintings make plain how they were made yet induce optical effects that supersede their
physical qualities, demonstrating a rapport with works in Chinati's permanent collection by artists
of her generation such as Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, and Robert Irwin.
Whether in drawing or
painting, Mr. De Niro's art was defined by an arresting
physical confidence and a
quality of natural talent that was widely acknowledged, even by critics who felt that his efforts could sometimes have an unfinished or impatient
quality.
In Tim Davis's «Permanent Collection» series he takes photographs
of classic
paintings ranging from still lifes to religious, using the light
of the camera's flash to obscure bits
of the composition and / or bring surface
qualities, such as brush strokes and crackling,
of the
physical object to light.
The mahogany frames I made for each
painting also nod to a gesture
of commodification, but more importantly they relate the
paintings more directly to architecture and produce this
quality of physical weight and pictorial phenomena.
Noland achieved this varied application
of paint and emphasis on certain colors by using a gel medium, which sits on the surface
of the
paintings and gives the color a tangible,
physical quality.
They become acutely aware
of the space and material aspects between point A and B. Eventually I made the switch from
painting on the city surfaces to working with the
physical and metaphysical
qualities of materials that lay beneath.»
The
physical alteration
of the paper's material form through the addition
of paint or water lends it an informal, objective
quality uncontrollable by the artists» hand.
Hung Liu In Print invites viewers to explore the relationship between the artist's multi-layered
paintings and the palpable,
physical qualities of her works on paper.
These choices starkly contrast the digital
quality of the image with the
physical materiality
of the
painting itself, which directly parallels and exemplifies the complexity
of memory.
Varda Caivano's
paintings are notable in that they fully explore
paint's
physical qualities without trading in any
of these strategies.
Finding inspiration from the
physical and metaphysical
qualities of water, Cathy Choi
paints with pigmented resin, po...
Not only does this inform his
painting practice, but also gives insight into the creative process in a
physical from that can be touched, held, and examined — showing the potent transformational
qualities of the medium, as well as the frailty.
They emphasize free, spontaneous, and personal emotional expression, and they exercise considerable freedom
of technique and execution to attain this goal, with a particular emphasis laid on the exploitation
of the variable
physical character
of paint to evoke expressive
qualities (e.g., sensuousness, dynamism, violence, mystery, lyricism).
Deb's practice is concerned with «bringing a form into being by exploring the material and
physical qualities of acrylic
paint ``.