Final Project: Studio exercise and visual analysis essay
I chose to do the work in the style of Barnett Newman because I had not previously known about his methods of painting and paid no attention to this artist among the other abstract expressionists that I loved. My favorite artist for more than 10 years was William de Kooning, but the course from Museum of Modern Art “In the studio: Postwar abstract painting” gave me a lot of new knowledge, and I wanted to try something that I had never tried before.
I switched to acrylic, also because I had to go to another country during the war and acrylic is cheaper than oil, and I can paint with it at home without going to a studio.
Barnett Newman's technique requires materials such as acrylic to dry quickly. I didn't have construction tape and used regular tape.
There are inaccuracies in the work, flowing paint, which I decided to leave in order not to remove the natural process.
But I worked on this work and as in action painting, I deliberately left spots and brush marks, not as sweeping as Jackson Pollock did, but as much as I decided that the composition of this canvas was allowing me.
I switched to acrylic, also because I had to go to another country during the war and acrylic is cheaper than oil, and I can paint with it at home without going to a studio.
Barnett Newman's technique requires materials such as acrylic to dry quickly. I didn't have construction tape and used regular tape.
There are inaccuracies in the work, flowing paint, which I decided to leave in order not to remove the natural process.
But I worked on this work and as in action painting, I deliberately left spots and brush marks, not as sweeping as Jackson Pollock did, but as much as I decided that the composition of this canvas was allowing me.
