Sentences with phrase «pigments upon a canvas»

It is in this manner, for example, that Jessica Warboys «Sea Paintings» came into existence — a performative act between her and the tides of the sea — in which she allows the waves of ocean to interact with the pigments upon a canvas.

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Eschewing tools, as if to reject any reliance on the flightiness of brushwork, he applies layer upon layer of somber - hued pigment directly with his hands, not so much to paint as to rub the color onto the canvas.

In other words, the impressionists» insistence upon a direct application of pigment to canvas resulted in surfaces which declared themselves first of all as surfaces — and, consequently, in paintings which declared themselves first of all as paintings rather than as windows which looked out upon the natural world.

By pouring her acrylic pigments (she works almost solely with black and white) directly onto glass and letting them dry there, she can then slice into the pigment and, having cut out a cartouche or a length of filigree, can carefully lift that segment of limp paint from the glass and position it upon the canvas.

Working downward from the top of the canvas, using a limited range of colors, Wilson adds layer upon layer of pigment, a technique that provides extraordinary translucence and resonance.