Sentences with phrase «poured black enamel»

Not exact matches

Frankenthaler did not invent the technique of poured paint, but she did mix turpentine into her bright colors so that they moved to a distant pole from Pollock's black enamel.

The black pourings were first exhibited at Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, in 1951; a series of black enamel and oils, they have been described by art historian Michael Fried as bringing the artist to «the verge of an entirely new and different kind of painting... of virtually limitless potential.»

This tour de force of scholarship bears paintings, drawings and five of his six known sculptures, where Pollock pushed on through, farther than even his previous drip paintings, to forge some of the most radical art of the 20th century: sublime, sexy black enamel and oil pours on pure, unprimed canvas.

Jackson Pollock, the master of Abstract Expressionism, reached an endgame with his groundbreaking drip paintings in 1950, and then experimented with a new technique, akin to drawing, of pouring thinned black enamel onto unprimed cotton duck.