Sentences with phrase «thickly painted surfaces»

At the same time, the thickly painted surfaces emphasize the shape of the pairs, focusing our attention on the surface and abstract qualities.

In the end what we see is no more — but also no less — than the play of light on a thickly painted surface.

Not exact matches

Partly a reaction against Abstract Expressionism, best known in the thickly layered paintings of American artists Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, Hard - Edge emphasized angular lines, reduced forms, precise surfaces, and rich colors.

Typically called «matter paintings,» these pieces incorporate gestural form and thickly worked, scraped, torn, and incised surfaces.

Thickly painted forms interact with squiggly lines and flat surfaces to create a type of abstraction that knowingly flirts with Pop art.

The works in the exhibition display his characteristic textured treatment of the painted surface, built with layer upon layer of thickly encrusted acrylic paint mixed with pumice and often finished in vivid colours.

Even the works without collage elements from this time have a feeling of paper cutouts, the paint laid on thickly and in blocks across the surface.

Depending on the angle of observation, a reflection emerges on the surface of Shaan Syed's thickly painted gradients that prohibits the viewer from entering the work.

The curved lines of the first prints, circa 1960, are close to Judd's paintings in that the paint is applied thickly (in some cases, also on the back and front), evoking the paintings» rough and palpable surfaces.

Nearby, at Galerie Richard, Armleder's abstract paintings grasp sparkling, playful shapes in thickly impastoed surfaces.

There are some fine non-Soutine paintings, like Avigdor Arikha's picture of colorful socks on a wood surface; Frank Auerbach's small, thickly painted, nearly abstract urban streetscape; and Lucien Freud's painting of backyard shrubbery.

Orange Crush (1963) ** shows how the construction of his paintings were never static, and his works since the 70s have in many ways now released from any notion of the static, favoring surfaces that are thickly applied and rich with movement throughout.

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.

But Doig wanted to make «homely paintings» — of houses and train stations, fallow fields and frozen ponds, explorations of weather and light that used thickly layered surfaces, complex reflections, and the imperfections of his source materials.

During the final two and a half decades of his painting career Resnick's paintings became monochromatic, albeit with thickly brushed and layered surfaces.

A thickly rendered, painted surface may be built upon a foundation of worn, stacked materials, and a smooth area may be made of countless layers of rubbed and fanned out paint.

The artist generates the atmosphere of these works using performative gestures, and her paintings reference an embodied self, reflected in the thickly textured, punctuated surfaces.

Rather than using paint thickly and opaquely so that it sits upon the surface of the canvas, Frankenthaler thinned her oil paint with turpentine to the consistency of watercolor.

In his early paintings Marden left a bare narrow margin at the bottom edge of the thickly worked surface of oil mixed with wax to allow the observer to be witness to the process.

However, for Hofmann, the possibilities of painting always encompassed divergent approaches; the geometric and the curvilinear, the thickly impasted and the thinned surface were all concurrently viable throughout his career, although there were periods when one set of problems seemed to take precedence over another, such as in his 1941 - 1943 landscape studies.

Breaking through from beneath this grisaille smoke screen are apertures of radiant colour, which transcend the great depths of its remarkably rich and thickly laden paint surface.

The surfaces were thickly painted but smooth at the same time.

Gilliam's «quilted» paintings of the 1980s involved cutting geometric shapes from his thickly encrusted canvas surfaces, and rearranging them on nylon or canvas backgrounds in patterns reminiscent of African American patchwork quilts the artist remembered from his childhood.

His thickly worked surfaces of oil paint reveal layers and layers of time; refined and distilled day after day, into a specific quality of experience.

Scully paints in oils, sometimes laying the paint on quite thickly to create textured surfaces.

The surface becomes broader, the paint is thickly applied using the impasto technique, and stands up in lumps: Dedores (1968); Moorhen (1970).

You can also work very thinly with transparent glazes or very thickly with a mountain of paint but the actual surface quality of the acrylic remains flexible, this means your painting won't crack over time.Thin coats of acrylic paint can be used to give a watercolour look to a picture.

It appears the wood floors throughout the house were lightened, a brand new and nearly all white kitchen was installed with thickly veined slab marble counter tops and a vintage range, and just about every interior surface and architectural detail, including most window frames and the tile floors in the circular foyer and staircase, has been slathered in crisp white paint that we can all be certain will flabbergast a persnickety architectural preservationist or two.