Sentences with word «squeegee»

A squeegee is a tool with a flat rubber blade used to wipe or clean surfaces like windows or floors by removing water or other liquids. Full definition
In the early seventies he made paintings with squeegees that were solid blocks of perpendicular color of different surfaces.
The painting in it, A B Dunkel, or Abstraktes Bild Dunkel (Dark), (CR: 613 - 2), 1986, is from what is considered Richter's breakthrough year for squeegee painting.
While critics called them decorative, shallow and disconnected from their culture, these painters continued to work big, pouring acrylic paint, spraying or using squeegees in an attempt to achieve the most free flowing and luminous effects.
Painting with trowels, palette knives, and squeegees on sheets of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), Baker builds her bright glossy surfaces by outlining each mark and shape with torn tape and filling in the interior.
Blur and squeegee in hand, he grows over a career from cleverness into irony and a brush with the past.
These range from aluminum, steel, reflective sign materials, and plastics to mosaics, collage, pattern, digital data, projections, the use of templates and stencils, as well as squeegeed and airbrushed paint.
It comes with two sizes of window squeegee, concentrator nozzle with four different tiny brushes and a larger rectangular brush with two cloths.
By sale's end, members of the group bid on or won a gallery's worth of masterpieces — including a $ 66.2 million Mark Rothko abstract, a $ 33.7 million Jeff Koons sculpture of a train, a $ 29.2 million Gerhard Richter squeegee abstract and a $ 26 million Alexander Calder sculpture of a «Fish,» a Chinese symbol of prosperity.
In «Rain Passed, the Bay with a Touch of Sun» (2007), the only indication of the painting's source is in its title, recalling otherwise — in its blurry striations of muted purples and greens — a Gerhard Richter squeegee painting.
His monumental squeegee abstractions form a relief - like chromatic film on the grounding of the canvas.
Parents make the critically necessary sacrifice without which society would collapse like Jeb Bush's presidential campaign: We shell out vast sums of money on everything from diapers to chess camp to prepare the next generation of taxpayers, who will be funding the retirement of people like the childless / childish Meghann Foye, whose pay - me - even - if - I - didn't - do - anything attitude says not «imaginative social thinker,» but «squeegee man
Others may snooze through the long, nearly silent passages that Belz lavishes on Richter as he brushes color on canvas, mutely ponders the results, drags paint over surfaces with large squeegees or scrapes it off with palette knives.
The film focused almost entirely on the world's highest paid living artist producing his large - scale abstract squeegee works in his studio.
Further layers of paint are applied later and removed by squeegeeing off the excess, the smears and knobs of paint resembling beautiful missteps.
Once the film is positioned, deft sweeps of a small squeegee remove all the bubbles from beneath the film.
In some places the force of Richter's squeegee removes nearly all of the pigment going right back to the pale ground, leaving only a diaphanous veil of its previous occupant.
My paper came with a little squeegee tool that made it so easy to keep the paper from getting wrinkled or bubbly.
The lines and shapes of the drawing itself tend to be angular, recalling the swipes of an eraser, or a window - cleaning squeegee.
By then, Whitten had arrived at a signature method of building up layers of acrylic paint and drawing a tool across the surface — an afro pick, blade or rubber squeegee purchased on nearby Canal Street.
Between 1973 and 1974, he moved from sprayed to poured and squeegeed surfaces, working the paint back and forth, up and down, layer upon layer, always in search of the perfect non-color, it seemed.
Just use the wiper blade to carefully squeegee water from the body panels, followed by wiping with a clean dry hand towel.
«But the 2014 slide was like a huge squeegee pushed the prior slide debris across the valley.»
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These sweeping wet - into - wet passes are similar to the way Gerhard Richter drags paint with large acrylic squeegees, but the flowing lines left by Lawlor's wide brushes are more human and organic than Richter's geologic scrapings.
Samaras's gooey manipulations of Polaroid film yield an intoxicating parade of non-sequiturs and Richter's slathers of sticky paint squeegeed over snapshots and family photos possess the kind of chewy veracity you can feel between your teeth.
Sotheby's November 11 auction saw Andy Warhol's 1962 work 200 One Dollar Bills fetch $ 43.7 million, just shy of a quarter million for each dollar - bill image squeegeed onto the canvas.
The work is a virtuosic example of the free abstractions that, since the late 1980s, had utilised the artist's signature squeegee technique to create new levels of optical intricacy.
Echoing the art brut aesthetics of many of the auteur's cinematic works, the painting was created in an informal style often employing masking tape, household paint, and squeegees instead of brushes.
Biography Stanley Casselman (born 1963) Casselman has garnered fame and accolades for his progression paintings which he uses homemade squeegees to drag paint across the surface of -LSB-...]
Richter's surfaces also record the quickness or slowness of his gestures, gestures made with physical effort, but mediated through large unconventional tools, such as house paint brushes taped to long bamboo rods and variously sized squeegees edged with transparent Plexiglas.
Even better, it's shatterproof and comes with its own squeegee so you can easily clean it off if it gets dirty or wet.
Apart from that, the custom openings allow you access to all buttons and functions of your Galaxy S4, and the Galaxy S4 case ships with a screen protector, installation squeegee and microfiber cleaning cloth.
The artist used a paintbrush, a palette knife, his trademark squeegee, and a knife to shape these paintings built up in several layers of oil paint; his many years of experience — during which he has often made use of chance in the creation of his works — result in detailed and extremely complex compositions.
Also part of the Fondation's collection, Strip (920 - 1), Strip (921 - 2) and Strip (921 - 5)(2011) are presented to further enhance the artist's interest in the relationship between painting and photography, these works being in fact digital prints of augmented photographs taken of a previous squeegee painting created by the artist in 1990.
Painted the same year the artist first exhibited his large - scale abstracts to international acclaim at Documenta IX, Abstraktes Bild (774 - 4) belongs to a discreet suite of paintings from the early 1990s which are characterized by the broad sweep of Richter's hard edged squeegee.
Richter attacks a huge green painting with one sweeping, decisive gesture after another, first squeegeeing paint across the surface, than selectively scraping it off to reveal the reds, yellows, blues and whites underneath.
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It also has a new squeegee - style dipstick that eliminates the need for a paper towel when checking the oil.
Richter improvised his own means of making such marks using his large - scale squeegees, which he rakes over several painted layers in broad horizontal and vertical arcs.
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Consists of a shallow hydrogen peroxide bath, squeegee rollers and a heating chamber.
In the letter, SBA president Ed Mullins warned that «squeegee people are reappearing on the streets, and aggressive panhandlers and con men are populating the subways and Times Square.»
«Even with flooding they could just squeegee it out and they were ready to go again,» Gettelman said.
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