Sentences with word «scumble»

From 1950 on, however, Kline created large canvases of dynamically painted abstractions — shafts of jutting black on fields of scumbled white.

These seemingly simple elements are complicated through Bradley's subtle treatment of line, edge, and scumbled surface, creating complex investigations into how images are constructed.

In one large, typically untitled, work, he uses gray to carve triangles into the left and right sides of an otherwise dense scumbled field of greens, pinks and blacks.

The large scale and raw, scumbled texture call up abstract art.

The raven is slightly off - center and juxtaposed against a white, scumbled background.

You could then modify the colour by scumbling a thin layer of lighter grey (or another colour) over the top.

7 Such independence and neutrality are foregrounded in the prominent brushstrokes that occur at the top of Collection's three panels: the light blue - green scumble at the left, the compact blue paint stroke in the center, and the mixture of blue and white at the far right.

He also taught himself sophisticated techniques such as scumbling, which he used to great effect.

Josh Willis built up and scraped away scumbled paint to depict the Tower of Babel.

These contemporary works present sly anachronistic disjunctions: they are painted by Purdy in an elaborate scumble and glaze technique and treat conventional Beaux - arts subjects ---LSB-...]

Painterly scumble... dimly illuminated night settings.

In this lesson I will be demonstrating how to develop a skyscape using blending, layering and scumbling techniques.

Krasner comes across as the more restless of the two painters, moving from the flat, interlocked shapes of «Lavender» (1942) to the dense, peaked brushwork of «Noon» (1947); Lewis seems to hit on his mature scuffed - and - scumbled style without much deliberation.

They might be on the verge of tumbling into Diego Perrone's sand pits, Erik van Lieshout's post-AIDS Tanzania, or Roberto Cuoghi's scumbled terrain on glass.

The artist uses scumbling and glazing to achieve an active painting surface, giving the paintings depth and space.

He likes muted artificial light, horizons that interrupt sunlight with blank earth and hills, and scumbled earth tones broken by half - finished patches of intense blue.

In the woodsy - looking Landscape Motif 5/3/68 (1968), isolated elements — a froth of scumbled blue and white, patches of autumnal color and rocklike forms — are pushed gently together on a depthless picture plane in the manner of John Marin.

Alongside these opposing attitudes are drips, scumbled brushstrokes, melting puddles of color, and discontinued architectonic shapes, all of which playfully jigsaw together a bigger picture that hints at degrading logic and systems — as if Greenbaum were changing thoughts midstream.

The works are encrusted with impasto scumbling and layers of opulent glazes, and because Kuo mixes most of his paints using natural pigments, his palette is earthy and composed of ochers, siennas, and umbers.

The artist's early - 1980s works — straightforward depictions of drugstore purchases, Budweiser beer cans, a plastic My Little Pony figurine, and Robinson's personal friends, the artists Martin Wong and Mike Bidlo and critic Carlo McCormick — feature banal subjects facilely scumbled in acrylic paint and initially registered as an ironic wink to the viewer.

Note, for example, the sense of depth evoked by the banquet scene in the bottom right corner of Hazard (1957, fig. 3), which Rauschenberg juxtaposed with a similar photographic group portrait to its left, wherein the perspectival illusion has been undermined (in precisely the manner Steinberg describes) by means of a translucent scumble of white paint.

The brush strokes conjure everything from Abstract Expressionist scumbling to Tiepolo - like sunsets, but the handiwork never crosses the seams; closer examination indicates that the fabric is actually raw linen.

In a vast panorama seen from above, Chelsea Winter with Elevated Park: New York High Line (Mass Moca # 41)(2006), writing complements the visual choppiness of the city, adding scumbled urban texture in snow, the NYC High Line elevated train track a river of white dividing the painting, a kind of narration of the city.

Working directly into a soft or hard ground with a brush loaded with white spirit, he has produced contrasting scumbled and opaque areas in a manner closely resembling his gouache drawings of the same period.

Inspired by Renaissance nativity portraits, these studiedly scumbled and scratched pictures (her superimpositions and erasures rarely avoid predictability) appear less visceral meditations on motherhood than vastly scaled geegaws propped up by classicism and sheer bloat.

From 1977 - 1982, the forms became larger, with less color variation and the surface became less scumbled and tortured.

Jones devotes a lot of time to creating raised rough and scumbled textural effects that add visual heft and gravitas to the work.

There is colour palette - knifed on as thick as butter in the manner of de Staël in the Fifties a suggestion of totem figures out of Miró, scumbled noses / mountains reminiscent of Hoyland's German near contemporary, the 47 - year - old Horst Antes, and so on.

Alexander writes: «Working with aspects of observed landscape as his starting point, Hatton builds abstract compositions comprised of many layers of shapes and spaces — beautiful contrasts of linear and planar dynamics laid out in juicy scumbled color.

The variation in application of the paint from thick to more scumbled, along with the confident line helps create the movement and depth of this painting.

This I call my «Rothenberg scumbling» technique.

Others works are composed of cut and painted canvas in animated and rounded forms of black, ivory and terracotta tones or soft, scumbled grays.

It was applied to produce a range of texture, including areas of dabbed - on paint with quite sharp but low impasto, areas of thickly blended colour, dribbles and extremely thin scumbles.

They have a similar subdued palette and scumbled touch but the closer one looks, the figuration that emerges seems to be derived less from landscape and more from objects close at hand, biology and flora and fauna.

As in her aforementioned dotting technique, Coates actively embellishes different shifts of focus in her paintings with thick scumbling, translucent washes and dry brush of kaleidoscopic chroma, and dabbing and dripping of thinned acrylic paints.

His lines are deliberately scumbled and sketchy, and the forms only generalized.

• At MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, the Irish sculptor and painter Cathy Wilkes is the subject of an exhibition that, Jason Farago wrote in his Times review, «unites uncanny cloth sculptures and scumbled paintings with large doses of junk.»

These contemporary works present sly anachronistic disjunctions: they are painted by Purdy in an elaborate scumble and glaze technique and treat conventional Beaux - arts subjects — portraits, still life, landscape....

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.

for Barnaby If we're in the same boat, call it an ark: For forty days and nights» about six weeks Of thunder, water roar, and windy shrieks, Of hiss, growl, moo, oink, trumpet, purr, and bark» We've scanned a horizon on which none can mark The scumble of an island's....

As the probe whizzes past, paint is already being dabbed, splattered and scumbled.

• Students on a planning sheet will need to develop their mark making skills to enable them to shade using tones and students will look at various ways to use line techniques to create tone: stippling, hatching, cross hatching, scumbling, contour hatching.

Scumbling is the technique of dragging (usually) lighter paint over a darker coat in a semi dry - brushed effect.

«Scumbling» is a technique where you drag a thin broken layer of colour over a previous layer allowing the first colour to show through to a certain extent.

This seascape by Dave Jeffrey is a fine example of a scumbled background which adds significantly to the mood of the scene.

Although one is aware of the artist's scumbling and scraping of pigment, Rothko's paint handling doesn't announce itself as such.

Her repetitive dragging corresponds to Monet's scumbling, as the directed quality of the painted layers «combines with the ethereal tonalities to produce a poetic atmosphere,» as Bill Rubin once said of Pollock.