Sentences with phrase «separate layers of paint»

My earlier works had clear separate layers of paint.

Here, the artist achieves this freedom through a rigorous and meticulous technique involving the removal and reapplication of separate layers of paint.

In my paintings, I am interested in separating the layer of paint, or applied paper or wood from the surface (typically a wood panel) that it covers.

Not exact matches

As the viewer regards two separate paintings by 16th century Dutch painter Pieter Aertsen, titled The Vegetable Seller (1576) and A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms (1551) respectively, each cut to a different fragment of the paintings» surfaces raises questions: what do the artworks depict; what is placed in their foregrounds; what is relegated to the background; and, ultimately, what meanings can be excavated from the artworks» layers and represented objects?

In each painting, a thin, vertical line where the cleansed and painted sections of the composition meet visually vibrates with the remnants of the surface's original layers of paint and separates the two halves of the canvas.

Working with thirty - foot lengths of canvas on the floor, he would pour one layer of paint over another, not - quite - cured layer and allow the top layer to shrink, separate and craze as it dried.

Indeed there is an unresolvable tension between the vividness of the paintings» enlarged content, and the accumulated layers of mediation or reproduction that separate that content from the here - and - now.

Early in her career Howard began utilising common household gloss paint, leaving it to separate in the can so that the colour pigment sinks beneath a layer of thick, sumptuous varnish.

Presented on separate floors of Tew Gallery through June 1, Minton's multivalent and playfully complex woodcut paintings, together with Ludwig's fecund layering of diaphanous veils of color and lush natural imagery, create a conceptual playground and a sensory feast.

[5] In the 1970s he began to remove elements from spaces, for example sandblasting away layers of paint (at Galleria Toselli, Milan, in 1973) or removing the partition walls separating an exhibition space from the gallery office.

The hardness of the paint allows the separate layers to be easily sanded through creating varying colors at different levels of the texture.

To prevent yourself from using several layers of paint, first use a separate primer, despite two - in - one paint products that claim to do both.