Sentences with phrase «spattered canvas»

People like to mention Pollock with his spattered canvas, Johns with his flag, Robert Rauschenberg with his combine paintings, Julian Schnabel with his Neo-Expressionism and smashed china, Anselm Kiefer with his mythic landscapes and broken branches, Radcliffe Bailey with the slave trade, or Jean - Michel Basquiat if one needs to invoke a black artist with a spray can.

Marden's early paintings box the viewer into the moment of encounter, offering at most a sliver of spattered canvas along a picture's bottom edge — like a faint crack of light beneath a door — as a whispered invitation to ponder the work's material history and creative context.

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The weightiness is evoked not by any darkness, but by the unique paint application the artist employs in her large - scale canvases, in which she lets gravity dictate the way paint falls, spills, and spatters across the expansive surfaces.

[iii] He would pin these shapes to supporting canvases, where they became painterly elements, along with the vivid colors he applied through brushwork and spattering.

Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956) became known as «Jack the Dripper» because of his drip - and - spatter technique that fell upon a canvas laid out horizontally on the floor.

One could mistake them for works on paper, except that the spray texture and the weave of the canvas accentuate the spatter.

In the 1980s, he experimented with chemicals spattered onto wet canvases, and fixed objects — such as the lids of the jars in which he mixed paint — directly to the surface of his paintings.

(born 1938, Bronxville, New York, USA) in his earliest mature works explored a reductive strategy which seemed similar to that of Jasper Johns's and Ellsworth Kelly's contemporaneous works, yet more formalist: paintings such as Return 1 consist of subtly grey fields painted in encaustic (wax - medium) with a narrow strip along the bottom of the canvas where Marden left bare evidence of process (i.e., drips and spatters of paint).

Then with the brush, midair on the ladder, she shoots from the hip, flicking calligraphic arcs of golden spatter onto the canvas, over the dense, metallic tendrils.»

By dripping, flinging and spattering paint onto his canvas laid onto the floor, he refuted centuries of tradition.

For instance, Self Born, 1949, while taking full advantage of the «drip, blob, and spatter» method used by Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell, among others, went one dramatic step further by employing these devices not against the kind of flat, implied space that existed in Pollock's and Motherwell's canvases but within the infinite, clearly defined atmospheric space also found in the works of such Surrealists as Dali and Tanguy.

Pollock also gets a dedicated space, which features his signature compositions of spatters, dribbles and puddles of paint dropped or poured directly onto canvas.

People love to hate the Turner prize, and there is inevitably some kind of talking point, whether that is Martin Creed winning for turning a light on and off, Tracey Emin submitting her unmade bed, or Chris Ofili spattering elephant dung on his canvases.

Pollock experimented with a number of styles before eventually developing a vigorously gestural technique, dripping and spattering paint across his canvases in a seemingly random way.

In two series from 2009, Digital Painting and After Francis Bacon, Paricio used an unusual mix of hard - lined, flat geometric and amorphous shapes in primary and jewel colours alongside swathes of thick, spattered paint on canvases that were gradually edging towards the figurative.

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.

Last year, I photographed several Abstract Expressionist paintings, focusing on the accidental marks on the canvas: drips, spatter, pools of paint.

«Stephenson's paintings are characteristically made by spattering droplets of paint on to the surface of canvas or paper.

In a peroxide wig, a clown's nose, giant rubber hands and a hospital gown with nothing underneath, McCarthy plays the role of a demented abstract expressionist, spattering ketchup all over the place and probing the canvas with his phallic brush until it is thoroughly punctured.

He was the link and connector between their use of «automation» (an improvisatory technique of freeing the imagination and subconscious by drawing or pasting randomly on the canvas then rearranging) and the gestural abstractions that reached their zenith in the work of Jackson Pollock's spatter paintings.