Water beads up because of the wax, and I have
scraped drips of paint, caulk and thinset / mortor off of them and I have been really happy with their durability.
Not exact matches
Unlike the kind
of action that is so identifiable in Abstract Expressionist
painting, which entails the different layers in the case
of Pollock's
drip paintings,
scraping and repainting in the case
of de Kooning, you sort
of invented your own kind
of action
painting, in a way.
The physical act and process
of painting couched in a formal construct is explored by Nola Zirin's thick
scraped surfaces, Cecily Kahn's
dripping take on cubism, and Marthe Keller's insouciant acrylic washes.
Willem de Kooning, whose whiplash lines and sweeping gestures defined «action
painting» in the popular imagination nearly as much as Jackson Pollock's
drips, is said to have
painted in a frenzy for a rolling camera, only to
scrape it all out when the filming stopped because the reality
of how he worked —
painting a stroke, then staring at it for a few hours — seemed too dull to film.
Lifting one canvas onto another, the artist transfers
paint across two surfaces, creating a labyrinth
of scrapes and
drips that intersect with radiant expanses
of color.
A collection
of richly textured works, which blend gestural
painting, figurative drawing and collage on everything from small pieces
of cardboard to boards measuring nearly 4 x 6 feet, the exhibition is an audacious debut in a city where the shadows
of Abstract Expressionism still loom large whenever an artist splatters,
drips,
scrapes, pours, or otherwise flings
paint at or on a surface to make an image.
Paint one side
of the door at a time and watch for
drips —
paint right onto the glass since you'll
scrape it off later.