Incorporating both white walls and the surrounding ungainly, if eccentrically charming, brutalist architecture, the show makes corporeal connections between
the splattered canvas works by VanDyke, the hand - pushed ceramic totem by Brie Ruais, and Meisenberg's delicate abstractions and impressed body prints on canvas, among others.
Not exact matches
With their giant drips, smears, and
splatters that spread towards the edges and corners of the
canvas, abstract artworks generated a new way of looking and viewers were left to consider the enormity and boundlessness of the
work before them.
At Sadie Coles he showed
work featuring the imprint of huge palm leaves on weathered
canvases splattered with rain saturated with pigment, while at the Zabludowicz Collection there were boldly painted aluminium sculptures and a recent series of five video
works using appropriated scenes from Tarkovsky films played against a segment of a Velvet Underground song.
Jackson Pollock believed that his
splatter paintings — springing from the muscular actions of his body over the
canvas — were not abstractions, but actually figurative
works.
Radiating a sense of barely contained energy, vivacity, and joy, Sam Francis's distinctive
work uses bold primary colors and jewel - like tones, abstract forms
splattered, dripped, and drizzled across the surface of the
canvas.
As well as his Elegy series, included are his famous summer collages as well as the black
splatter lithograph Bathos, 1975 — a
work on such a monumental scale, it has the impact of his most powerful
canvases.
A couple years ago when I saw his
work at Volta New York, I wrote off the Florida - based artist's monumental
splattered canvases as a throwback to the hypermasculine, «bigger is better» style of painting.
These included
splattering and throwing paint, using rough paint textures, and
working on
canvas tacked to the floor.
Francis spent some time in Paris executing entirely monochromatic
works, but his mature pieces are generally large oil paintings with splashed or
splattered areas of bright contrasting color, with areas of white
canvas left to show through.
The centerpiece of the show was a massive map of this grand nation we live in, each state its own
work, the blotched and scratched and
splattered canvases stretched across intricate cartography.
John was painting while lola, Spike & DoN luxuriated in Tim's studio filled with his exuberant stylized abstract paintings arrayed from floor to ceiling, paint
splattered everywhere, outlines of
canvases layered over years of
work, brushes and paints poking out of cubbies — just like you imagine an artists» studio to be.
The black
splatter to the edges with the enlarged lithographic image and the large scale make Bastos (1975) a
work that has the impact of Motherwell's most powerful
canvases.
Stephenson's
work was characteristically made by
splattering droplets of paint onto paper or
canvas and repeating this with many different colours.
Nitsch's
work at The Armory Show was also eye - catching, if not as controversial: blood - colored paint
splattered on
canvas, gory and glorious, but all contained to the wall and as far as we know not involving the harm of any animals.
Working spontaneously, in one sitting, Moskowitz affixed the discarded and discolored shades to his
canvases with rabbit - skin glue mixed with pigment over the surface of the
canvas, leaving visible brush strokes and chance drips and
splatters.