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.
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.
Coming on Avery's heels, Frankenthaler developed her «soak - stain» technique, in which paint thinned
with turpentine is poured directly
onto an unprimed canvas.
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.
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.