Not exact matches
Meshes of wide dynamic
marks; improvised arrangements of grids and crosses and circles and splodges; jabs and
drips, curves and swirls, overlapping or reframing each other; and colour, gloriously bright no - compromise colour, at the uppermost tones of
red, pink, yellow, orange, blue and green.
Here the
red figures of the couple and the delineated dark lines of the background surface meld with the swirl of
dripped wax and the intricate field of
markings of ink and watercolor.
The strokes were made with a brush loaded with
red or black and painted directly onto a wet ground; we can see the speed of the
mark, the downward pull of gravity, and the
drips where they meet.
Modified to resemble a rocket and transferred to the canvas using fiery
red ink, it is tilted upward, trailed by a bright orange plume of painterly
drip marks.
Areas of blue at the top of the canvas and bottom sections of scumbled green — that evidence the
drip marks of thinned paint — act as points of enclosure for a sandy colored swath which is punctuated by accents of
red.