Sentences with phrase «thickness of the white paint»

Even the very thickness of the white paint, whether a thin film or layered deep, demands his attention.

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The compositions feature large clumps of broad back - and - forth gray and white brushstrokes — think of whitewashed windows or rubbed - out chalk on blackboards — through which wander black spray - painted lines of varying thickness that suggest bent rebar or mangled wire coat hangers.

Its stack of broad white strokes over brighter colors might almost coalesce into the clouds and sky of a church ceiling by Tiepolo or Goya, but the thickness of the paint brings the work down to earth — and the modern world — with no loss of buoyancy.

A second white line shoots out horizontally from the center line with a thickness and slowly tapers off into just a slight glint of white light, reminiscent of minimalist painters like Frank Stella and his late 1950s canvases, where the fine white lines are actually unprimed canvas penetrating outward through the black paint.

Kline restricted himself to black and white for several years, and these paintings are distinguished by the differences that a line suggests when it is varied in attitude, thickness, or amount of pigment used.