Sentences with phrase «rich impasto»
The phrase "rich impasto" refers to a painting technique where thick and textured strokes of paint are applied to a canvas. It creates a three-dimensional and vibrant effect by adding depth and richness to the artwork. Full definition
Executed in rich impasto black and red oils this painting hints at how Davie's work was to develop over the next decade.
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[2] His oils, in hand - ground dry pigment on stretched linen and wood panels, are characterized by rich impasto, dense pigmentation, and dense markings.
Milder joined the celebrated New York - based Hans Hoffman School of the Arts in Provincetown, and the rich impasto and scraped rectangles of blues intermingled with whites bear the influence of the Bavarian master.
In these works, a luminous red and blue oval emerges from a rich impasto of ochre and gold oil paint.
He next confined himself to the color red, and produced his first masterpieces: works in which a rich impasto of collage is not just the medium but the actual subject.
In 1949 art critic Denys Sutton had identified the «challenge of American art», but added that «European and American painting must be studied together», citing in the same pages the «rich impasto» of Nicholas [sic] de Staël and the «dramatic design of Hans Hartung's pungent shapes, rhythms and exploration of the unconscious».
His former technique of staining and saturating wet canvases was replaced by a method in which multiple layers of thick acrylic paint and gels are scumbled, spattered, and built up on the canvas in a rich impasto.
He frequently exploits this rich impasto finish by mirroring the painted surface on a twin blank canvas, mimicking the famous psychoanalytic «Rorschach» technique to reference the reflective, interrogative nature of his work.
These figures, partially subsumed within the kaleidoscopic patterns, produce a deft play of textures between their matte surface and the rich impasto of the rest of the canvas.
While sensuous and tactile, with expressively applied oil paint and rich impasto, Tyler's work is also highly structured and unfolds with deliberate shifts in color schemes and forms.