Sentences with phrase «viscous paint»

In the 1970s, in particular, she adopted an increasingly wide variety of textures of paint, such that the color often appears suspended within the viscous paint medium.

Whether soft, thick grids of viscous paint lines or bare scratches in thin washes, Whitten's work is defiantly crisp.

While Chung Sang - hwa created layered grids of cracked and chipped paint, Ha Chong - hyun pushed viscous paint through the back of hemp, smearing and scraping the residue across the surface.

Each «film» is constructed by pulling viscous paint and medium across the canvas with a drywall blade.

Whereas Louis and Noland worked with an icy control, often using colored washes rather than viscous paint to avoid even the texture of paint strokes, Thomas allows a playful humanity to appear through the rigor, pushing against it in creative and unexpected ways, but never breaking through or turning haphazard.

It's a taboo that goes all the way back to Georgia O'Keefe, who gave up trying to beat down that door in the early 20th century when her radically abstract, viscous paintings were described as «great painful, ecstatic climaxes,» «an outpouring of sexual juices,» «loamy hungers of the flesh,» «the very essence of woman as Life Giver.»

It includes viscous paintings of drooping flower arrangements; intuitive photographs of lily pads and lithe bodies; mixed - media collages that juxtapose the tranquility of Japanese Ikebana with the chaotic energy of vandalism; and much more.

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It's a paint formulation that remains ever - so - slightly viscous for three to five years.

Untitled (Golden Yellow) Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 60 inches Ian Hughes October 9 — November 8, 2014 Over the arc of his career, Ian Hughes has honed a distinctive visual language in which paint reveals its lushest and most viscous qualities while simultaneously giving shape to bio-reminiscent forms that have a compelling life of their own.

Her practice has presciently combined photography's unique subject / artist relationship and image cropping with painting's viscous material capacity to describe and emulate flesh.

Also, ever mindful that the surface of the copper or zinc plate is plate is slick and the ink or paint is viscous, Degas would soak the paper (as he often did for pastels) so the fibers would absorb the color more fully.

Serra uses paint - stick, heating it to a viscous and sometimes fluid state.

Combining car culture, soft porn, modernist design and the viscous seductions of paint, Patterson's work often evokes both melancholy and desire.

And he creates a landscape painting out of roofer's tar, mopping the viscous black material onto yellow Naugahyde to form a vibrant sunset.

Painting with viscous oils on rectangular and diamond - shaped canvases, Mr. Hanson constructs florid, heraldic compositions traversed by grids, serpentine lines and curved and flat bands.

His winning gambit was to use black enamel and acrylic paints, unusual media that have the feel more of viscous printing ink than of paint.

His viscous, richly colored paintings have appeared in exhibitions at MOCA Jacksonville, the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, the Kent Campus Gallery at Florida Stage College at Jacksonville, the Haskell Gallery at the Jacksonville International Airport, the Alexander Hall Gallery at the Savannah College of Art and Design, CoRK Arts District, and many others.

Broken plates, Kabuki theater backdrops, tarpaulins and boxing mats; thickly applied oil paint, collage, viscous resin, and flat digital reproduction; fragments of text in different languages: these are just some of the diverse materials with which Schnabel engages life's grand themes — sexuality, obsession, suffering, redemption, death, and belief.

These brawny canvases — measuring seven by ten feet apiece — burst with hastily applied spray paint, arbitrarily collaged gum wrappers and baby wipes, and viscous oil paint scraped and smudged with a wide palette knife and housepainter's brush.

By applying layers of incompatible paints, varnishes and other liquids, including coffee and wine, Larmon has achieved extraordinary textures - from viscous pools to patterned cracks and rills.

As de Kooning had mixed his oil paints into a thick, viscous yet airy consistency and applied them in heavy impasto - laden strokes, Wool veers toward the opposite end of the spectrum, creating a barely - there scrim of a surface that's been leached of all color, save for the effects of black and white.

Tactile traces of the brush add to the illusion of watery flow as created in the more viscous mineral matter of oil paint.

It just makes little sense grouped together, particularly when shoehorned into Food Channel - worthy declarations of relative «sweetness» to which, for example, Cecily Brown's rich, viscous, post-abstract expressionist painting The Park in the Dark (2012) is reduced in the press materials (where it is taken to «illustrate the allusion'to the black - cake custom).

This time viscous flows of blue, green and black paint encircle an orange object, which the artist describes as a «buoy.»

Maintaining the consistency of the brushstrokes while varying the amount of paint and pressure applied, Lee keeps «expression to a minimum in order to achieve the maximum» (L. Ufan, Lee Ufan, Tokyo, 1993, p. 3) The almost hypnotic repetition of marks that comprise From Line is created by the artist pressing a brush loaded with blue paint suspended in viscous glue directly onto the surface of the canvas, then repeating the process until there is barely any pigment left on the filaments of the brush.

Only three of these prized paintings remain today in private hands, of which the present is the largest, most powerfully visceral, and most nearly abstract in the vigorous streaks and swirls of viscous, jewel - like pigment that Soutine used to render the bloody meat.

Elsewhere there are antagonisms and sparrings between shapes whose true nature is left unstated, and sudden lashing of caked or viscous pigment whose inspiration is again no longer in nature but in something in the nature of paint, or of the feeling that takes hold of a painter when he attacks it.

His varied output includes 18 - foot - tall phallic «stalagmites» dripping with seemingly viscous urethane; rough - hewn ceramics with primordial glazes; paintings done with Robitussin - red nail polish or graffiti - like spray - paint; sculptures of smudged and scratched white minimalist forms; bus - sized cages on wheels; and videos of frustrated male pornstars masturbating to no end.

Certain structures and processes become mesmerizing as McKeever spins his various webs and trellises in paint, as sequential applications of viscous materials cascade over his canvases.

This rich texture is translated into the viscous, tactile ripples of white paint, which spread like a glacial moraine across the canvas in Struktur (2).

Brown's signature painting style is trompe l'oeil impasto; thick and viscous from a distance, but iron - flat up close.

Even so, their work drills straight into the wellspring of pleasure that only paint, as a viscous, stubborn substance, can provide.

In the large suite of new works on view at Maccarone Los Angeles, Hubbard's viscous, richly colored industrial materials are layered and reconstituted in compositions that advance the act of painting by challenging its formal figure - ground language.

Commonly cited examples, which are repeated in the catalog, include, among others, Lynda Benglis» pouring of pigmented latex directly on a floor, on which it hardened; Richard Serra's works in which he cast molten lead into the corner where floor met wall (one of which has been reproduced at SFMOMA); Robert Smithson's pouring of viscous asphalt down a hillside outside Rome; and Eva Hesse's «Rope Piece,» in which lengths of rope were let to hang loosely in a space in three - dimensional mimicry of the skeins of pigment in Pollock's drip paintings.

It is in the artist's hands that common everyday objects become an investigation not only of the viscous nature of paint but also light, atmosphere and composition.

Working with new acrylics like Magna, which retained their bright hues even when thinned to a watery consistency, they made exceptionally vivid, viscous and immediate paintings on unprimed canvas.

These are tactile works, the paint heavy and viscous, reflecting the light at sharp angles and rising into meringue peaks.