Also conflated are the techniques of Jackson Pollock, said to dance around and occasionally step on his horizontal canvases while delivering his drips of paint, and Andy Warhol's "Oxidation" paintings, where the acid was urine.
I make paintings where I take big white shapes and I paint them going off the left side".
Rower is best known for his psychedelic paintings where he uses up to 50 gallons of paint to make rainbow compositions over wood blocks and canvases.
"Before she came to New York, she was doing very abstract painting and charcoals, and the Lake George pictures are the flowers and the tree paintings, where they take on that human personality, almost," she said.
I have done several paintings where buyers wanted their private jet portrayed in the picture.
We couldn't tell that from the cave paintings, where they appear lumped together.
"I try to find paintings where we might find Ovid's text," she says.
On a similar theme, Tate Liverpool is offering Turner, Monet, Twombly: Later Paintings, where the artists complement rather than compete with each other (till 28 Oct).
Mr. Wegman's ineluctable lack of pretense is perhaps most complex and intriguing in the show's paintings, where he deftly combines the roles of professional, amateur and illustrator.
And that's a bit like what happens in the paintings, where you might see a blue splotch emerging from under a green but they're still distinct.
Edward O. Wilson wants to answer the questions Paul Gauguin used as the title of one of his most famous paintings: "Where do we come from?
