Sentences with phrase «textures of brooms»

The shapes, colors and textures of brooms, cleaning mops, clothes, and precast structures of civil construction are the trigger for free associations and unexpected translations done by the artist.

Not exact matches

An early proponent of shaped canvases in the 50s, Ed Clark began using a large push - broom to push paint across the surface of the canvas in the 60s, creating subtly blended and thickly textured stripes of paint such as those in Yucatan Beige (1976), in which the stripes traverse beyond the central ellipse.

With their fields of fine horizontal lines and textures, usually achieved by drawing a wide broom across the canvas, Mr. Whitten's 70's paintings present sauve, understated unities.

In the new YARD paintings at Gagosian Rue de Ponthieu, Ruby uses rollers and brooms to spread a soft palette of red, blue, green, and purple acrylic paints over unprimed canvases laid directly on the studio ground; incidental debris and textures beneath the canvas emerge as impressions during the frottage process.

Acclaimed for his painterly touch, Johns based his technique on the informal brushwork and texture of abstract expressionism, sometimes attaching literal elements such as rulers and brooms to the canvas.