I think I went, "Ah!" This experience was a routine miracle of the art world before Impressionism sanctified raw paint.
His labyrinths of raw paint lead the imagination inward, towards the unconscious depths, and outwards, to the limits of space.
In no other painting before Abstract Expressionism does raw paint — as literal as bugs hitting a summer windshield — possess such poetry.
With deft white and red brush strokes, the Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi has worked into the messy, raw paint a pattern suggestive of leafy shrubbery, bird feathers and angels' wings — pictorial and ornamental motifs used in Indian and Persian miniature painting.
With deft white and red brushstrokes, the Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi has worked into the raw paint a pattern suggestive of leafy shrubbery and flower petals, turning the whole into a politically fraught, allegorical mix symbolizing dualities of life and death and hope and despair.
With deft white and red brush strokes, the Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi has worked into the raw paint a pattern suggestive of leafy shrubbery and flower petals, turning the whole into a politically fraught, allegorical mix symbolizing dualities of life and death and hope and despair.
The crude paint application, which left areas of raw canvas exposed, was appalling to viewers at the time.
Creatures lurk in the colossal flayed skin of raw, unstretched, paint-scraped canvas in Leon Golub's six great paintings of sadistic torturers and thugs, as well as in Jenny Holzer's black-granite sarcophagus chiseled with the same wordy laments that scroll by in a flashing LED sign.
Late Turner – Painting Set Free drowns such quibbles under a flood of raw wild paint.
They cried O God to the pillows.Now ripped and fluttering,angel feathers.These hover, slower than me.See raw finger paint.
