The torn surfaces of works like «I'm Sorry I Made You Cry» and the large - scale «Hardcore Rose» suggest the end result of an epic struggle with the very concept of abstract painting itself.
Not exact matches
«Current techniques for assessing an individual's age at death rely on reviewing the wear and
tear on a skeleton's joint
surfaces,» says Ann Ross, a professor
of biological sciences at NC State and corresponding author
of a paper on the
work.
Mr Lu added: «Our paint
worked extremely well for a variety
of surfaces in tough conditions which were designed to simulate the wear and
tear of materials in the real - world.
A U.S. - based team
of mathematicians and optometrists is
working to change this by gaining a better understanding
of the inner workings
of tear film distribution over the eye's
surface.
Working together, these layers continually rebuild the
surface of the skin from within, maintaining the skin's strength and helping to thwart normal wear and
tear and sun damage.
Just about every
surface viewable to the naked eye was touched: the front
of the car has a beautifully fabricated cockpit made to look like the Falcon's, while custom body
work and a detailed paint job mimic the wear and
tear the ship has taken across its time in the Star Wars universe.
His early
work, through its emphasis on broken and
torn surfaces, responds to the destruction experienced in his youth during the Spanish Civil War, followed by that
of the Second World War and the era
of the atomic bomb.
Using a similar technique to his vast site - specific installation Pickett's Charge, which is on show at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., until November 2018, he entombed the horizontal ropes in the paper before re-revealing them through
tearing and abrasion
of the
work's entire
surface.
Based in Bali for more than two decades, the Italian artist Filippo Sciascia is widely known for Lux Lumina, an ongoing series
of almost black and white figurative paintings, based on photographic and cinematic sources; their impasto
surfaces heavily
worked by the painter, who runs a dazzling gamut
of painterly techniques, to the point the painting's skin cracks and
tears so skillfully by intuitive calculation that its disintegration seems to be instigated from the inside out.
Like silent x-rays and inverted silhouettes, the array
of geometric abstractions in Amm's canvas
works appear as nearly cubistic imprints
of shadow shapes, broken planes and the
torn edges
of elegantly textured
surfaces.
Other
works that vividly explore that tension — essentially, between endeavor and incapacity — include Carl Palazzolo's
Tears of Things # 1 (2012), which conveys the frustrations
of seeking order; Stephen Mueller's hard - edged, ambiguously kinetic Kalki (2010); Denyse Thomasos» Life (2009), which reflects the paradoxical chaos
of contemporary sophistication; and Michael Goldberg's Earthstopper (2001), intimating that
surface noise obscures deeper meaning.
Made
of a blend
of applied rubber substances that appear in some places to have been ripped and
torn from the
surface, Purchase RDF, 2015 nevertheless looks more like a painting than much
of the
work submitted by the other artists.
Overall, it's a unique look with design that's shared across Microsoft's entire
Surface line and makes it at once different and yet recognizable — and
of course the display
tears off to
work as a surprisingly thin and light tablet complete with advance pen support.