Then comes The Taking of Christ, a dark, dense painting that shows Jesus just after his betrayal by Judas.
These modernist impulses weave together in his best late works, from the gossamer lightness of "White Abstraction" (circa 1935) to a last, grand, dense painting completed in 1941, just before a stroke ended his career at age 59.
In VR, you can't help but focus on every little detail, which is one of the strengths of analyzing such a dense painting through this perspective.
If an eroticism existed, we may sense it just as dense pigment: thick, painstakingly built-up paint, which can have a sensual charge.
Second, the project has collected more than 1,000 high-resolution images of paintings in those museums, and presents them within a viewing technology that makes it easy to zoom in to study the brushwork, or shine a spotlight on a minor character in a dense narrative painting.
The painted surface is relatively dense, and the paint evenly worked.
This deliberate, dense layering of paint makes it hard for the viewer to tell what is figure and what is ground, and the constant, jockeying interplay between the two gives Ms. Passlof's work much of its dynamism.
As the slim, knowing creature of its title wends across a bare sand-gray surface, we make out the texture of fine Pollock-like drips while also realizing that three especially dense clumps of paint have sprouted exquisite Dürer-esque barely there weeds.
The exhibit is organized according to themes: Birth, Men and Women, Man and Animal, The Dance, The Sacrifice, with Native American artifacts (Tlingit soul catchers, Eskimo masks, Haida totem poles) placed alongside Pollock's dense journeys in paint.
He added, "Like Jim Morrison and Pete Townshend, Vedder makes a forte of his psychological-mythic explorations...As guitarists Stone Gossard and Mike McCready paint dense and slashing backdrops, he invites us into a drama of experiment and strife".
