Not exact matches
Rauschenberg's «Bed,» for instance, is a landmark
painting from 1955 that stands about six feet tall, with a stapled - on pillow, a cotton sheet splotched with red and
yellow, and rivulets
of white pigment
dripping onto a patchwork quilt.
Scribbled
paint strokes blur the punchlines
of comics,
drips of white
paint collide with a thick red line squeezed right from the
paint tube, and bits
of headlines such as «Dandruff may be the beginning
of baldness» jump out amid abstract patches
of pink, red, and
yellow.
A gorgeous flood
of lilac splats hedonistically across «Kumari»; the
painting's surround configuration
of expressively handled discs
of green, aquamarine and red, all on a volatile stained ground
of yellow, places it in a well - established tradition
of abstract
paintings that read as cosmic metaphors (Pollock's
drip paintings that were meant to mirror universal flux or more recently Julian Schnabel's blue splurge titled, tongue - in - cheek, «Portrait
of God»).
Cheim & Reid, who have done more than any other major New York gallery to bring women's art to the fore, are exhibiting the last
painting ever made by Joan Mitchell — a ravishing mess
of blue and
yellow squiggles indebted to Monet — alongside first - rate sculptures by Jenny Holzer and Lynda Benglis and a new abstract
painting by Pat Steir
dripping in silver and gold.
The locked - together blocks
of black and white or slate - gray and
yellow greens that dominate Mr. Federle's
paintings are reductivist in tone, but their thinly
painted surfaces, full
of drips and matter -
of - fact stumbles, are seductive.
Crisscrossing these shapes are
yellow drips and
drips off
drips painted with graffiti acrylic that form a linear web, referencing currents
of air or electrical energy.
More radical in its execution was the «Oxidation» series (1978): Warhol and his assistants prepared canvases by covering the surfaces with copper
paint and then urinated on them to make elegant iridescent designs in
yellows, oranges and greens; perhaps they parody the random
drip methods
of painting used by such Abstract Expressionists as Jackson Pollock.
Peter and Jill Kraus said they liked Jackie Saccoccio's abstract
paintings at Van Doren Waxter, a tangle
of lines and
drips in
yellow, blue and pink.