Built up from layer upon layer of biro and emulsion paint plastered onto canvas, the drawings contribute a setting of intimate vulnerability.
The various aspects of the scene are built up from the base with very delicate, paper-thin layers of paint in sfumato (the smooth transition from light to shadow) relief.
SARAH MORRIS Splashy, prismatic paintings that continue Morris's investigations into the relationship between painting and architecture are hung alongside compositions built up from the unmistakable interlocking circles of the Olympics logo.
Across from a line of photos there is a painting that descends deep into the cosmos, built up from layers of black gloss by Peter Halasz.
Built up from thin, brushy layers of acrylic, his gauzy-surfaced paintings repurpose the saturated hues and bold compositions of Color-Field painting and Japanese screens while drawing on the buoyancy of Disney and the anarchic energy of manga.
But more commonly, as in an earlier version of the same painting, or in "Mending the Net," also from 1881, the composition was built up from a half-dozen or more separate photographs.
This painting became a model of the figura serpentinata ("sinuous figure")—that is, a figure built up from several intertwining views.
"It had built up from Sept. 11.
That bile probably built up from experience.
The discussed themes are built up from the beginning.
