Not exact matches
Pensato is less interested in the cartoons and comics these figures emerge from than the way these characters are drawn, and her depictions expand and exaggerate the most basic marks of figural form: here, the eyes of Felix the Cat loom large, disembodied and delineated in
thick,
brushy strokes.
The other artists tend to assert superficially Soutine - ish qualities like
thick and
brushy paint or, as in the Louise Bourgeois sculpture, the slaughtered animal subject matter.
(His first aluminum work, which dates from around 1964 is here: a 14 - inch square that he burnished, creating a
brushy turbulence before applying
thick patches of white over dark blue paint.)
It is not merely the stylistic methodology he uses to combine a myriad of opposites; it is the material quality of paint he employs;
thick,
brushy, flat, wiry, and detailed.