Inspired by the enamel stains of Jackson Pollock and the thin washes of Helen Frankenthaler, Louis created his Veils by pouring Magna acrylic paint
thinned with turpentine onto unprimed, unstretched canvases.
Finally, oil paint
thinned with turpentine was applied to depict the woman and unthinned oils were used for the beads and the colours on her chest.
Coming on Avery's heels, Frankenthaler developed her «soak - stain» technique, in which paint
thinned with turpentine is
Coming on Avery's heels, Frankenthaler developed her «soak - stain» technique, in which paint
thinned with turpentine is poured directly onto an unprimed canvas.
Before Arshile Gorky used paints
thinned with turpentine for Abstract Expressionism's most fluid creations, he boasted of his thick surfaces.
Not exact matches
Where Pollock had used enamel that rested on raw canvas like skin, Ms. Frankenthaler poured
turpentine -
thinned paint in watery washes onto the raw canvas so that it soaked into the fabric weave, becoming one
with it.
Like de Kooning's paintings of the period, Baselitz's new works impart a watercolor - like fluidity, achieved through the
thinning of oil paints
with turpentine and their swift, loose application.
Frankenthaler began her departure from Pollock by
thinning her oil paint
with turpentine and then pouring it directly on to the bare canvas.
He also arranged for Noland and Louis to visit Helen Frankenthaler's New York studio in 1953, where they were introduced to her method of soaking
turpentine -
thinned oil pigment into unsized, unprimed canvas (a technique Frankenthaler herself had learned from Pollack's 1951 black - and - while stain paintings made
with thinned black enamel paint).
Gorky
thinned his paint
with turpentine and might have applied it
with a turkey baster.
A key moment in Frankenthaler's career took place when she began
thinning her paints
with turpentine so that they would be absorbed into the fabric of the canvas.
The city's first major exhibition of Frankenthaler's work in more than five decades, the exhibition explores her return to gestural improvisation after years spent developing her «soak - stain» technique (soaking her raw canvas
with turpentine -
thinned paint).
Rendered
with oil paints
thinned down
with turpentine on linen canvases, Vecsey's reduced shapes are saturated
with color.
She applied this to the processes of art - making: Frankenthaler defied rules about painting as well as printmaking, most consequentially when she
thinned her paint
with turpentine and poured it directly onto raw canvas, in a manner that radically redirected so - called Color Field abstraction.
She had previously been using
turpentine -
thinned oil paints to create her seminal soak - stain paintings, but she became dissatisfied
with the way the oil paint interacted
with her unprimed canvases.
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.
Using matte pigments mixed
with turpentine rather than linseed oil, Avery applied his colours in
thin layers
with a stiff brush, creating chromatic effects of astounding subtlety, delicacy and invention.
In these works, the artist
thinned oil paint
with turpentine to the consistency of ink and spontaneously let the work, in his words, «pour out.»
Using
turpentine in conjunction
with oil paints Innes
thins and removes layers, revealing underlying colours and leaving the evidence of his process on the canvas.
A portion of the canvas is then treated
with turpentine to reveal the
thin, brilliant colours underneath that have the same innate fragility and iridescence as Rothko's.
She developed her famous «soak stain'technique, in which she applied paint
thinned out
with turpentine directly to raw, unprimed canvas.
Working
with a large canvas on the floor, the artist
thinned her oil paints
with turpentine and poured directly onto the canvas.
Her signature paint -
thinning technique, in which she diluted the oil paint
with turpentine, coupled
with an entirely revolutionary method of staining (rather than dripping or brushing paint onto) the canvas undoubtedly changed the course of art history and influenced the likes of Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis and Jules Olitski.
She
thinned her paints
with turpentine and applied washes of color onto unprimed canvas.
Oil cons: The smell of
turpentine If your start painting
with oils in a confined space the fumes from the
thinners can overwhelm you,
turpentine and white spirit can be really strong.
I work
with odourless mineral spirits or «Zest It «(a
thinner made from citrus) that have a very little odour compared to
turpentine.