Not exact matches
At about five feet square, «Depend on the morning sun» is among the smaller
paintings in the show, but it contains one
of the broadest gradients — two horizontal - ish
swipes of a
brush outfitted with crimson, titanate yellow, Prussian blue and orange - pink, about a foot wide — slapped onto the upper right corner like a warning sign.
For all their premeditation, Rothko's approach to the Seagram
paintings is often revealed in blunt and even slapdash touches and
swipes of his house - painter's
brush.
Characterized by flat primary colors contrasted against mirrored surfaces, these
paintings contain overlapping screen - printed images along «with broad
swipes of the
brush and splashes
of paint» that Artsy describes as both «dramatic and explosive.»
In contrast to his Mission School compatriots Barry McGee or Alicia McCarthy, who find the sublime in the grit
of the street, Johanson ham - fists his way through his subject matter to portray a world mired in shit - like
paint squirts and urgent
swipes of the
brush.
Another way to keep dust out
of the tufts is to have a clean
paint brush in your cleaning arsenal to
swipe down deep into those grooves and then vacuum away.
So I only spent about a half an hour - if that - and did a dry -
brush technique (where I just
swiped the
brush over it with not a lot
of paint on the
brush).