In the St. Janskerk windows at Gouda, Holland, painted by the brothers Wouter and Dirk Crabeth at the end of the 16th century, and in the works (1620 40) of Abraham and Bernard van Linge, the realization of the window as a translucent canvas painting is complete.
The outdoor dining area looked out over acres of vineyards and was shaded by large, translucent canvas "sails" and the great green and purple grape leaves overhead.
These stories inscribed upon pages made of glass; a substance made from sand, the granules ground over thousands of years from rock and finally through a process of refining into the fragile form of translucent canvas are the poignant accounts of people of an unforgettable historic era.
In Miriam Schapiro's 1959 canvas, "Pandora," translucent paint coalesces into a figure that the artist would reinvent many years later in different symbolic guises.
You notice the method – fluent, sumptuous, the paint sinking into the canvas in translucent stains, the brush carrying its licks and swipes with gliding expertise – at exactly the same moment as the subject, which is always human, often vulnerable, violent, suffering or dead.
Both men, under the influence of Ms. Frankenthaler, began experimenting with stain technique, thinning their paint and applying it to unprimed canvas to create translucent layers of color that revealed the canvas surface.
Instead he composed a grid from many small sheets of translucent, dark-edged paper arranged in rows on canvas.
The dots, however, do not disappear when looked at, but remain clearly visible, giving the canvas the quality of a shimmering, translucent screen.
I draped myself with a length of translucent crepe and fashioned, from wrought iron and canvas straps, a backpack-like apparatus that kept a bunch of plastic grapes steadily retreating from my grasp, like a carrot before a horse.
Fig. 6 Details from the reverse of La condition humaine (Fig. 2a): showing olive green paint on the left edge of canvas and a fingerprint in a more translucent green paint on the right edge of the canvas again over the underlying composition.
Part of his ongoing series Reality, Space and Emptiness, Mullen's Spatial Inception project challenges visual perception with translucent compositions in thinly painted synthetic polymer and pencil on canvas shades of blue and orange.
