Also installed throughout the exhibition are clay sculptures depicting
singular elements of the paintings.
Not exact matches
Using a condensed and dramatic form mixing
elements of comic book art, Californian underground, and murals with the great European tradition, the large scale religious implementations
of the Baroque in particular, Danø works range from the traditional
painting to reliefs and
singular objects.
As a student in 1949 at the Art Students League
of New York, for example, he laid paper on the floor
of the building's entrance to capture the footprints
of those entering and exiting.10 The creation
of receptive surfaces on which to record, collect, or index the direct imprint
of elements from the real world is especially central to the artist's pre-1955 works.11 Leo Steinberg's celebrated 1972 article «Reflections on the State
of Criticism» isolated this particular approach to surface as collection point as the
singular contribution
of Rauschenberg's works
of the early 1950s, one which galvanized a new position within postwar art. 12 Steinberg coined the term «flatbed picture plane» to account for this radical shift, through which «the
painted surface is no longer the analogue
of a visual experience
of nature but
of operational processes.»
His
singular techniques — extensive layering
of color and collaged
elements as well as lacquered surfaces that have been buffed to a dreamlike sheen — make each
painting, no matter its size, instantly identifiable as his own.
I never make «series»
of works and
paint slight alterations
of a
singular element.
Each
painting is a highly
singular creation
of ephemeral moment — including
elements of music, dance, and intense self - perception, showing in patterns
of what could be termed «intense blur.»
Each
painting is a highly
singular creation
of ephemeral moment — including
elements of music, dance, and intense self - perception, showing in patters
of what could be termed «intense blur.»