Sentences with phrase «thin skeins»

Airbrushed atmospheres, gradients, hypnotic curlicues, industrial roller marks, thin skeins of paint, paint squeezed directly out of a tube — Benson knows that each of these techniques creates a discrete physical sensation of create ocular depth and tactility that belies the flatness of the canvas.

Wrought in thin skeins of loosely flowing white paint, these late works have an immediacy and sense of mastery culminating in over 50 years of painting

In Freischwimmer (2004), thin skeins of colour drift and curve, misting into dense clouds of pigment before unravelling and dissolving across the surface of the image.

That thinning skein of ice is still doing its duty keeping the Arctic summer close to freezing.

Not exact matches

Other hallmarks of this new generation of painters, according to Greenberg, were thinned - out paint, a lack of an identifiable artistic mark (as in Pollock's «drips» and «skeins»), a focus on saturated and intense color, and a lack of interest in spontaneity.

Instead of appropriating, say, the virtuoso, whiplash thin linear networks of a Willem de Kooning or an Arshile Gorky or the animated, poured skeins of black and white of a Jackson Pollock, Owens, among others, makes immaculate renderings of heroic, gestural brushstrokes.