«Grotto» (2010) weaves
together brush marks of brown and yellow.
Not exact matches
Like all the works of this period, Collection is held
together, across its material disunity and the variety of materials out of which it is constructed, by a grid structure derived from the modernist tradition in which Rauschenberg was trained by Josef Albers, by the drips, stains and thick
brush marks that create an over-all surface, and by the similarity of value shared by its range of colors.
I need to trust my hand and body and brain and the paint material to conspire
together when the
brush marks the surface.
Surrealist artists, many of them refugees from Europe living in New York during the war years, brought with them an interest in primitive and archetypal subject matter,
together with the technique of automatism, in which the artist, by relinquishing conscious control over pencil or
brush, creates
marks which may trigger visual or conceptual associations.
The precise width and configuration of the internal lines was the only pre-determined element, their dimensions being the width of the commercial masking tape Stella used to
mark up the canvas
together with the width of the
brush he used to construct the rich pattern of parallel lines that characterize his work.
This show
marks the first occasion where both her paintings and body prints — her recent method of working with natural oils and pigments, using her whole body as a
brush — will be shown
together.