The pixilated look and meticulous acumen of Hart to patiently inject acrylic paint into each bubble to seep into
the reverse side of the canvas was astounding.
He sometimes paints
the reverse side of the canvas which sits off the wall, so as to produce a halo effect around his work.
Musing on the new found color and texture, which she discovered by chance while noting the bleached out color on
the reverse side of a canvas, Lynne decided to follow thru with this new direction.
In his first one - man show at the Peridot Gallery in 1950, he presented stained and «dripped» canvases, influenced by his close friend Jackson Pollock, in which stains made on
the reverse side of the canvas were used to generate «spontaneous» painted shapes on the front.
Not exact matches
Simultaneously obscuring and revealing the
reverse of the
canvas Moffett explores the potential behind the surface - the «dark
side».
In Untitled (Suite «Blancs»)(1973), Hantaï also engages both
sides of the
canvas, using the back
of an earlier oil painting as his support; faint color patches from the original work are visible within the colorful pattern, fulfilling the artist's desire to «draw out the qualities
of the
reverse.»
From 1948 on, Bacon preferred painting on the
reverse (unprimed)
side of his
canvas which suited his technique.
The
canvas is then stretched «
reverse side up» on the frame, showing the four layers
of paint penetrating the cloth, revealing the time
of completion in the form
of its thickness and flattening.
Comas will present a group
of «
Reverse Paintings» that consist of painted canvases that he restretched to expose the unpainted, reverse side: The pigments that leached through the canvas fibers result in the new
Reverse Paintings» that consist
of painted
canvases that he restretched to expose the unpainted,
reverse side: The pigments that leached through the canvas fibers result in the new
reverse side: The pigments that leached through the
canvas fibers result in the new image.
In a 1999 two - panel work, the left - hand
side is covered with numbers, while the right - hand
canvas is a mirror image
of the first, with the numbers
reversed.