The combination suggests an artist who, if he hasn't quite come full circle, has always combined a penchant for flash and visual drama with a keen interest in the physicality of paint, whether thin, as in his stained and spray-painted abstractions of the 1960's, or thick.
But if we drive the ball in the paint or post up in the paint, whether they double or not, something good is going to happen".
Our experiments show that the situation is complex, and that the pH of a paper substrate contributes to the comparative instability of an anthraquinone dye or pigment in watercolor paint whether mordanted (i.e., complexed) or not.
I asked Dr. Painter whether, as whiteness becomes less plainly advantageous, as it becomes better to be rich and black, for example, than poor and white, there will be more explicit calls for white pride and white solidarity.
To Wood, who died in 1942 at the age of only 51, the most important thing about the painting was "whether or not these faces are true to American life and reveal something about it".In art historical terms, "American Gothic" might also be seen as Wood's regionalist manifesto: "there's no place like home".
"If a painting, whether it's at the Met or it's something somebody threw away, gets a reaction out of me and gets me thinking, and gets me mentally and emotionally, I like it".
"The functionality of paint beside the beauty and the colour is something that we keep pushing the boundaries on – whether it is anti-mosquito, whether it is antibacterial, whether it is reflective paints, whether it is paints that in some fashion have an increased insulation".
The discovery or reappraisal of design techniques and imagery in the art forms and processes of other cultures has been an important stimulus to the development of more recent styles of Western painting, whether or not their traditional significance have been fully understood.
If Mr. Stella's works could indeed wake the dead, I think the return to consciousness might be accompanied by a sudden desire to take up painting, whether to prove that he has got it all wrong or to take advantage of the ideas percolating through his art.
Peter Max: "Seven days a week, I'm always drawing, doodling or painting whether I'm in the studio or on a plane".
That's because the artist didn't use any fucking restraint and tried to throw everything into every painting whether it made sense or not.
