Sentences with phrase «under layers of paint»

Regardless of how they reveal themselves, the secrets of the artist are buried under layers of paint, turning fingerprints of nostalgia into abstract imagery.

This becomes the canvas for Huanca's collection, featuring performances by nude models concealed under layers of paint and latex.

By exposing the naked body and concealing it under layers of paint, cosmetics and latex, Huanca's performers confront our instinctive reactions to flesh, which becomes both a familiar, decorative object and an abstract, inaccessible subject.

Not exact matches

Old buttondown shirts make great smocks when worn backward with the sleeves cut off, plastic sheeting under the modeling clay construction site can protect the rug, and large sheets of butcher paper over the crafts table can prevent an encrusted layer of multicolored paints or glue.

Art historians and scientists use imaging methods to virtually «dig» under or scan various layers of paint and pencil.

It is rather like applying coat after coat of paint — eventually you loose sight of the original object under so many obliterating layers.

A layer of paint can be seen peeling from under the front bumper, and the upholstery and well - worn driver's seat show signs of spirited driving.

Note that if your home was built before 1978, you should probably assume that somewhere, under all of those layers of paint, is lead paint that's just been covered over with another layer.

The Brooklyn show includes Whitten's Birmingham 1964, in which a newspaper photograph of a confrontation in Birmingham is partially revealed under layers of stocking mesh and black oil paint, like a wound that can't be covered over.

There are a lot of silver under - layers in my paintings that get covered up and they change how light magic happens.

«The layers of paint, the under painting, the scrapping and the painting over it draws you in,» she said.

With each layer I add I always become attached to brush marks or different sections so end up leaving parts of the under painting showing through.

Colors run under an opaque layer, with the mute quality of abstraction for Jasper Johns — and then the two largest paintings turn out to be a diptych, multiplying drawing once more.

Artists were influenced by industrial finishes and spray painting with over - and under - layers of metal flake and pearl developed by custom car builders.

Copies of the artist's birth certificate and pages from his address book are physically laid down as a self - described «under surface» of the paintings on which he applies multiple layers of paint stick in vertical and horizontal strokes.

John Mills paintings are both illustrative and esoteric, with layers of lyric activity submerged just under the surface.

Menacing, bare, red and blue branches thickly painted with energetic brushwork traverse the panels while a crouching female figure is nearly obliterated under layers of overpainting.

This layering suggests the possibility of infinite paintings under the surface, as though the finished work is just one variation among many.

Based on images of part of the large site - specific painting created directly on our walls and floor, she has created a completely new installation of printed fabric that hangs where the original used to be, now hidden under many years of layers of wall paint.

It seems almost unimaginable that the sparse, abstract works on show here were made by an artist known for canvases heaving under dense layers of paint.

But under those layers of bright colour and slashes of paint, Wylie's work is hugely complex, covering all manner of subjects from Nicole Kidman's paparazzi photos to Wylie eating a chocolate biscuit.

In his later paintings, it is buried in fine layers of paper or noodles, concealed under thick blobs of colour.

Even though artists use the «white painting» for different objectives, the play of light and shadow, using the canvas to inspire a unique meditational experience absent of all outside references, and the inevitable comparison with notions of the «white - cube» gallery all play into the layers of meaning hidden under all that white paint.

When the paintings are viewed together in the gallery, optically dense geometric patterns are seen in relation to flat monochromatic surfaces, photographic images, or faint contours disappearing under layers of luminescent diamond dust.

In his recent paintings, however, in which he lays down thick layers of black paint and then scratches through the tarlike surfaces until the white under - painting reveales itself in slightly wavering lines, Maffei has entered a territory all his own.

There are no preparatory drawings for a painting, instead the composition is achieved over time, and in the finished paintings earlier devices are clearly visible in relief, under the final paint layer, but fully part of the final work.

One painting, owned by the Tate, is shown alongside close - up photographs of details seen under ultraviolet light, revealing the complex layerings and reworkings the artist subjected his work to.

In order to keep the eye moving across the canvas and to create depth, I like to vary the resolution of the upper layers, sometimes keeping an area loose with the under painting showing through and sometimes bringing out more detail.»

Either square or rectangular in format, the paintings were constructed by laying down (mostly) opaque layers of paint and then scraping away one layer from another by use of a squeegee, as in Little Three for Two: Red, Yellow, Blue (1976), or exposing under layers by peeling away tape.

In her most recent works, abstraction takes precedence, yet there is always a connection to the figure, however muted, under layers of thinly applied paint.

Both men, under the influence of Ms. Frankenthaler, began experimenting with stain technique, thinning their paint and applying it to unprimed canvas to create translucent layers of color that revealed the canvas surface.

Frottage Technique In the early 1920s, in his pursuit of Surrealist ideas of automatism in art, he developed a technique called frottage (rubbing)- which involved placing objects under a canvas layered in paint, and then scraping back the paint on the raised areas of the canvas.

Kazuo Shiraga painted with his feet, suspended by ropes above the canvas; Andy Warhol or his assistants urinated on the canvas; and Niki de Saint Phalle fired a rifle at her panels that she had prepared with balloons of paint under layers of plaster.

Often this will employ semi-transparent layers of paint combining the under surface of the artwork to achieve the artist's intent.

These «oil skins» are then scraped off in sheets and draped onto canvas, revealing layers of under painting and distorting the original image.

She works with the imperfections of the canvas and under - layers of paint: features she once hated she now realizes she loves.

The technicolor figures pop off the Belgian canvases - a combination of a clear gesso base, sprayed acrylic under paint, and thin layers of oil paint on top.

When Murray first began making her raucous, eccentrically shaped, often multi-part paintings, during the decade under review, their burgeoning, layered shapes, sci - fi images, and, often, high - key color, made them read at once as affronts to the reductive qualities of minimalism and as aesthetic challenges to the mass - culture quotations of Pop art.

While in other areas, the paint thins out to expose under layers of color and texture.

A double sense of explosive fragmentation and re-constitution is evinced by the long piece of rough string in «Millefleur» (2012), which precariously clings to the canvas under a layer of tar - like black paint, forming the outline of a figure.

It is his work titled «When It Starts Dripping From the Ceiling,» in which he created a «tower of wooden slats under which a rubber trough was placed with a thin beige layer of paint representing dried rain water.»

Note that if your home was built before 1978, you should probably assume that somewhere, under all of those layers of paint, is lead paint that's just been covered over with another layer.

«That hue was taken from a scrap of old hand - painted wallpaper we found under about seven other layers we stripped off,» says innkeeper Joanne Oliver.

Or will there forever be a gummy under - layer of wet paint beneath the seemingly dry surface?

I've also altered different shades of grey chalk paint by adding a teeny tiny pinch of green, turquoise, teal or beige in my paints too, or using those as a based coat under the layered grey, to keep the grey colors of the pieces different.

You might want to add a layer or two of waxed paper over the paint and under the lid.

I just picked up a dresser that I would like to paint or stain, depending what I find under the layers and layers of orange paint.