When, at the beginning he could not afford canvas, Haring produced his graffiti art on tarpaulin, which still hangs on the walls of the Broadway studio from which Gruen now works.
Many learned needlework long before picking up a pen or paintbrush, and when they did work on paper or panel or canvas they produced lines with a distinct stitchlike quality.
That took him to Milan, in 1980, when he decided he was more Neo-Expressionist than realist and began piling thick layers of paint on canvas to produce what he dismisses today as "mud".
She was just twenty-three when she poured puddles of paint, in palely glowing colors, onto a cotton canvas to produce "Mountains and Sea" (1952), which is the Rosetta stone of color-field (it's in the National Gallery of Art, in Washington), despite the fact that it bears drawn lines and a redolence of landscape.
It was in the hallowed studios in the gardens of the Villa Medici that Balthus worked with a new medium (casein tempera on canvas) to produce the series of endlessly worked and reworked figure paintings that won him a whole new reputation.
"This is nature's canvas....Nature produces this beauty and I just try to capture it".
During the interview in Washington he produced a canvas shopping bag full of carefully highlighted clips from London papers, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
The way the pencil lines always end a quarter-inch short of the canvas edge somehow produces the illusion of a haloed circumference.
Along with an excellent Neo Rauch show a few blocks away, at the Rudolfinium, it went some way to suggesting that video has become a playground for the uninspired, that conceptualism has overreached its parameters, and that, at long last, the application of oils to canvas might be producing some of the most vital and rewarding art around.
The use of the exotic timbres of Chinese (lute-like) pipa, two-stringed (violin-like) erhu and (zither-like) zheng against the conventional orchestra produced a fascinating canvas of sound.
