The collection of vivid prints and works on paper, depicting aspects of both the new and old Bay Bridges in precise lines and colorful paint blots, is the third collaboration in a running partnership between the two artists, who also work independently.
The earliest pieces at the Morgan are small smudgy studies, in oil paint on blotting paper, of triangular and X-shaped patterns that may have pre-Columbian sources.
In the 1970s most of the theater's interior plaster surfaces had been slathered in, as Mr. Marston called it, "hideous" cream- and mushroom-colored paint that "blotted out all the detailing".
Some are like porpoises caught in midleap; others are stippled as if a giant hand has blotted paint; or coiled like cobras.
ALMOST every day since mid-August, the Bahraini authorities have sent out batches of workers with paint-rollers to blot out, with grey smudges, the graffiti that have covered virtually every wall in the main streets of several of the drab Shia Muslim villages half an hour's drive from the gleaming skyscrapers of the capital, Manama.
Don't spread the paint around as you blot; try to keep it in one manageable location.
Take some paint on the sponge, blot it on the paper, and apply it to your skin as before, but a little more lightly.
Sir George Beaumont, collector, patron, and, as he supposed, arbiter of British taste, complained noisily of Turner's "vicious practice" and dismissed his handling of the paint surface as "comparatively, blots".
But the anti-graffiti strategy — deploying crews called graffiti blasters to quickly erase or blot out painted surfaces — has imposed a kind of natural-selection process in the graffiti subculture.
