Oil paints, water colors, canvas, paper etc. Use a variety of these if you like and consider colored paper.
But most important was the way it fused color and canvas into a new, streamlined unity.
Working on a series of recent abstracts, he brushes big swaths of primary color onto canvas.
In the '70s he pursued two approaches, always using just one color per canvas — usually blue, red or black.
His new gallery show, "Form Is Emptiness," currently on view at Tibet House, explores through color on canvas the possible connections between Freudian dream analysis and Tibetan Buddhism.
Using paint thinned with turpentine, she fused stained color, raw canvas and gesture, creating a freewheeling composition of blurry shapes, whiplash lines and splatters that looked forever elegantly unfinished, caught in the moment.
In the film Mr. Bouquet is shown outdoors, a brush in Renoir's bandaged, arthritic hands, putting color to canvas; when the camera cuts to the painting, it is Mr. Ribes's hand applying the paint.
But in that corner he reached a modernist pinnacle in terms of freshness and immediacy, with his breathtakingly economical conversion of gesture, liquid color and canvas into abstract painting.
He also made monochromatic rectangular paintings in which, foreshadowing his later work, he asked the recipient of the painting to tell him what color the canvas should be and then which corner of the rectangle should be removed.
A color saturated canvas never looked so good.
