Not exact matches
Its rigid compositional attempt to define a rational space is undermined by the floating figures and particularly by the
raw application of
paint, which sits on the surface of the canvas and reminds us of its autonomous nature as scraped
pigment.
In my persistence to use
raw materials historically used in academic
painting, to contrast modern
paint with
pigment — a kind of fanatical review on contemporary
painting transpires, setting a stage for the current Miscommunication
Paintings.
Using turpentine to dilute oil
paints, Frankenthaler would then pour the thinned
pigments to an unprimed and unstretched
raw canvas.
An early and influential pioneer of Color Field
painting, Louis gained renown for his innovative method of staining
raw canvases with washes of
pigment to create vibrant, large - scale works.
This exhibition sees Williams engage with large scale
painting and ceramic forms, incorporating gold leaf and sand, alongside
raw pigment and oil
paint, to produce affect in his experimental, and textural works.
Using a combination of
raw pigment, oil, acrylic, enamel, and spray
paint, Lewis makes aggressive impasto
paintings on large cardboard substrates, elevating the utilitarian material through his artistic interventions.
Kinder's drawings /
paintings - there are elements of both mediums in each work - employ
raw pigment, acrylic, pencil and crayon to express the radiant vitality of the natural forces that inspire him.
Born in Mexico City in 1970, Bosco Sodi is known for his richly textured, highly physical and vividly coloured large - scale
paintings, made from crude
raw materials,
pigments and sawdust, plastered on to canvases with his hands and left to dry and crack in the sun.
Made at an enclosed beach set below white chalk cliffs, near Eastbourne, Warboys created the
painting by casting and rubbing
pigment onto swathes of
raw canvas that are submerged and pulled from the sea.
Frankenthaler first began staining thin, luminous
paint into
raw canvas in the early 1950s, adopting Jackson Pollock's technique of all - over poured
pigment but without the gestural drawing marks.
What at first appear to be
painted modernist abstractions are in fact assemblages of canvas cutouts — some
raw, other coated with
pigment — that she has meticulously stitched together.
Except for one that was left in its
raw state, he
painted all the others with different patterns and
pigments.
Hrbacek writes: «Knutsson's hues are emphatically mixed; they are not comprised of
raw paint taken straight from the tube in undiluted
pigments.
Applying
pigments to his canvases using a palette knife, he began to saturate his
paintings with expressive swathes of luminous color achieved through wide, rhythmical brushstrokes, which he then contrasted with
raw, but graceful, lines that pulsated with emotion — a practice that he would continue to pursue for the remainder of his career.
Switching to a plastic spray bottle, he showers
pigment onto
paintings that have been propped against the walls like
raw icons, or piled haphazardly on top of others as though they were collapsed pediments of a weathered wat (monastery - temple) in a sub-Mekong landscape.
But just as important was the physicality and materiality of the
paintings, resulting from his preference for using sackcloth and
raw jute with a very open weave for his supports and
raw pigment, soil and ash as his medium.
Using a restricted palette, Yun applied layers of
pigment to
raw canvas in vertical or horizontal bands interspersed with blank space; working on his studio floor, he diluted the
paint with turpentine so that it would gradually bleed into the support.
-- Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency and The Geography of Nowhere «This informative and lavishly illustrated volume, with its step - by - step demonstrations, personal histories, and interviews, provides readers with privileged access to the distinct philosophies and
painting practices of artists, illuminating their alchemical transformations of
raw materials — of charcoal and
pigments and oils — into unique and inspiring expressions ofhuman values.»
Consequently de Ville has also stated that although the History
Paintings are quite conceptually driven, they are also designed to show that different
pigments «all have their own nuanced identities», evidencing an interest in «the
raw essentials of
painting», which he sees as characteristic of Lalic's practice (Nicholas de Ville, «Maria Lalic: Recent
Paintings», in Todd Gallery 1995, p. 9).
Territories of wall are marked with
raw, bold
pigments in a style reminiscent of Color Field
paintings, demarcated by the steel bars that at once incarcerate and expose space.
In the earlier series, Louis utilized primed canvases, making the support not as absorbent to the poured on
pigments; in the 1958 — 1959 Veils he has transitioned to
raw canvas, allowing the
paint to seep fully into the grain of the material.
We pass from room to room: first, Me, Jesus and the Children, a monumental trompe l'oeil spray
painting of Dan's chest, a Jesus piece, and cartoon cherub psychopomps who crash the viewer into its solid plastic face; then, Whatever, a 5» x 6» scene extracted from Pinocchio, where an extinguished candle lights a room; two walls of Confetti, the Moments Like These Never Last series, as varied in aura as they are in approach and technique; four walls of indomitable Trash
paintings; four more of his Miracle works, oil medium and
raw pigment powder conjurations so boundless they literally escape their backings.
She was interested in neither the former's existential angst nor the latter's use of absorbed color
pigments on
raw canvas (she
paints on primed canvases).