Similarly, Castellani's canvases —
stretched over nails — experiment with positive and negative space, and light and shadow, while Dadamaino's black - and - white «volumi,» paintings with gaping holes cut through them, grapple with volume through absence and voids.
Not exact matches
Finally, I slather this coconut oil on to hopefully prevent
stretch marks, then I rub it on my
nail beds and
over the ends of my hair.
The actual plastic supports are relatively thick, and in keeping with the earlier work, on each of their sides the artist has painted a row of thick black dots, suggestive of
nails holding down canvas that has been
stretched over the frame.
In 1959, he completed the first of his celebrated Superficie, a series defined by the rhythmic protrusions and recessions of a monochrome surface, typically
stretched taut
over a pattern of
nails.
He achieved this effect by hammering scores of carefully placed
nails into elaborate wood supports,
stretching the canvas
over their protruding heads and then painting it, usually white but also silver, red or black.