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Medium: Gesso
Suzanne Benton, Before We Knew, 2024, oil on gessoed birch panel, Spiritualism
Located in Darien, CT
In this ninth decade of life, and as a working artist for nearly70 years, Suzanne Benton has become interested in the concept of Late Style as described by the literary theorist Edward Said. “Each of us can supply evidence of late works, which crown a lifetime of aesthetic endeavor,” Matisse had it with his renowned paper cuts. While nearly blind, Monet created the water lily paintings as his final legacy to the history of art.
Benton's Late Style arrived as a surprise during the Covid pandemic. The resultant aloneness from sheltering in place brought her to an uncanny level of solitude that only painting could voice. She reached for the purest of colors, and entered a celebratory world to create the Neo-Transcendental paintings titled All About Color.
The disappeared narrative came as a surprise. It had been the mainstay of the masks and mask tale performances, monoprints and paintings. This time though, the artist needed to bring a vibrancy to canvas, and to make tangible this sense of sheer essence that had pressed into her inner self in that time of stillness.
Well educated in color by John Ferren, the abstract expressionist painter who’d taught the year’s color study at Queen College. The sensitivity developed further through
four lengthy art-working journeys to India, starting in 1976-77, continuing with a 1992-1993 Fulbright, and additional South Asia residencies in 1995, and 2011. Those and others in Africa brought an ever more attuned palette to decades of monoprints with Chine collé that featured imagery from world culture, as well as her Americana of 19th and 20th century women writers, educators, suffragists, and feminists.
These Late Style artworks explore the cosmic realm. Its deceptive simplicity reminds Benton of Buffie Johnson’s late work. She, an early celebrator of Great Goddess imagery turned to circles in her latter years. similarly, Benton had drawn on rich Goddess imagery since the 1970’s...
Category
2010s Orphist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Birch, Oil, Board
"Forgotten Snowfall" Abstract Painting
By Sofie Swann
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Sofie Swann features a white, warm grey, and metallic silver palette with imperfect circular shapes in varying sizes arranged in a balanced, patterned compo...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Acrylic
"Hamam" Abstract Painting
By Sofie Swann
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Sofie Swann features a cool metallic palette with imperfect circular shapes in varying sizes arranged in a balanced, patterned composition. It is made with ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Acrylic
Suzanne Benton, Caught in the Dark Waters of Life, 2024, oil, Spiritualism
Located in Darien, CT
In this ninth decade of life, and as a working artist for nearly70 years, Suzanne Benton has become interested in the concept of Late Style as described by the literary theorist Edward Said. “Each of us can supply evidence of late works, which crown a lifetime of aesthetic endeavor,” Matisse had it with his renowned paper cuts. While nearly blind, Monet created the water lily paintings as his final legacy to the history of art.
Benton's Late Style arrived as a surprise during the Covid pandemic. The resultant aloneness from sheltering in place brought her to an uncanny level of solitude that only painting could voice. She reached for the purest of colors, and entered a celebratory world to create the Neo-Transcendental paintings titled All About Color.
The disappeared narrative came as a surprise. It had been the mainstay of the masks and mask tale performances, monoprints and paintings. This time though, the artist needed to bring a vibrancy to canvas, and to make tangible this sense of sheer essence that had pressed into her inner self in that time of stillness.
Well educated in color by John Ferren, the abstract expressionist painter who’d taught the year’s color study at Queen College. The sensitivity developed further through
four lengthy art-working journeys to India, starting in 1976-77, continuing with a 1992-1993 Fulbright, and additional South Asia residencies in 1995, and 2011. Those and others in Africa brought an ever more attuned palette to decades of monoprints with Chine collé that featured imagery from world culture, as well as her Americana of 19th and 20th century women writers, educators, suffragists, and feminists.
These Late Style artworks explore the cosmic realm. Its deceptive simplicity reminds Benton of Buffie Johnson’s late work. She, an early celebrator of Great Goddess imagery turned to circles in her latter years. similarly, Benton had drawn on rich Goddess imagery since the 1970’s...
Category
2010s Orphist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Oil, Board, Gesso, Birch
"Metamorphosis" Mid-Century Abstract Painting by Pawel Kontny, Textured 1960s
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Denver, CO
Discover the striking beauty of “Metamorphosis,” an original abstract painting by celebrated mid-century artist Pawel Kontny (also known as Paul Kontny). Created in the late 1960s to...
Category
1960s Abstract Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Marble
“PRLS-1000” contemporary abstract collage, mixed media, purple, blue, multi
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
"PRLS-1000" is part of Eric Mack's urban grid series. Using a grid to create the framework of the painting, Mack creates movement across the piece with dynamic techniques of washy underpainting underneath matted pieces of paper, and thread. His paintings have been described as "intellect on top of emotion."
Eric Mack (b.1976, Charleston) creates mathematically based renderings with a distinct post-modern twist. Works are informed with super imposed grids, patterns, and portals. Layered surfaces are created with paint, found objects, natural fibers, and synthetic substrates that explore the systems of our visual world.
His most recent show “Charting the Terrain” is on view now at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles was covered by the Los Angeles Times, KCRW, and LALA Magazine. His last solo exhibition was titled "Impossible Architectures" at The University of North Carolina...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Thread, Paper, Glitter, Acrylic
French School - Portrait PS 234 L'amour tombe des nues Post Impressionist AUC
Located in Zofingen, AG
PS 234 L'amour tombe des nues
Structural analysis:
Closeup portrait of a woman. Dripping of light blue and orange create movement to the portrait.
Color analysis:
There are 2 syste...
Category
Early 1900s Tonalist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Gesso, Canvas, Stretcher Bars
Impasto Abstract Landscape Seascape Painting with Pink Red Black & Golden Yellow
Located in Preston, GB
Impasto Abstract Landscape Seascape Painting with Pink Red Black & Golden Yellow by British Contemporary Artist, Angela Wakefield
Art measures 12 x 8 inches
Frame measures 17 x 13 i...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Paint, Varnish, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Board
Abstract Landscape Seascape Art with Pink Blue & White Sky by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Abstract Landscape Seascape Art with Pink Blue & White Sky by British Painter, Angela Wakefield
Art measures 18 x 14 inches
Frame measures 24 x 20 inche...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Paint, Varnish, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Board
Parade Street Shroud, white abstraction w green tree graffiti elements windows
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil paint and mixed media on canvas. This work is the second painting in a series of trees from Parade St. Park.
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Charcoal, Pastel, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Funny Weather ( San Francisco)
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Funny Weather is part of my latest series: Roots of a
City. Each painting in this series is based on the urban environments of
places that I have visited or lived in. There is an emo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Marble
Abstract Textured Painting Ego 172, Chidy Wayne - Paint on Canvas
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Exclusive piece made for the exhibition at Rish Lab, Brussels.
Chidy Wayne (b. 1981, Spain) is an artist based in Barcelona. Over the years, he has established himself as a recogniz...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Daylight Silver
Located in Zofingen, AG
What inspired the creation of this floral abstraction:
The flowers in the rain. Wonderful intensive pink and red colours on the grey-silver background.
Dimension in inches: 39 x 29
D...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Paper, Acrylic
The Rubble #3
Located in Palm Desert, CA
“The Rubble” series consists of seven tapestry-like
paintings hanging from hand-wrapped dowels. The color choice and materials
identify what can be destroyed, re-formed, and at some ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Thread, Resin, Paper, Pigment, Pins, Drypoint
"Little Swann 3" Painted Wooden Cube Sculpture
By Sofie Swann
Located in Westport, CT
This 5" hand-painted sculptural cube by Sofie Swann is made with acrylic paint and gesso on wood. It features a sandy beige and white palette with imperfect white circular forms arra...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Wood, Acrylic
"Little Swann 4" Painted Wooden Cube Sculpture
By Sofie Swann
Located in Westport, CT
This 5" hand-painted sculptural cube by Sofie Swann is made with acrylic paint and gesso on wood. It features a grey, white, and beige palette with imperfect white circular forms arr...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Wood, Acrylic
"Little Swann 8" Painted Wooden Cube Sculpture
By Sofie Swann
Located in Westport, CT
This 5" hand-painted sculptural cube by Sofie Swann is made with acrylic paint and gesso on wood. It features a deep teal palette with light texture over the surface of the cube. It ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Wood, Acrylic
"Little Swann 10" Painted Wooden Cube Sculpture
By Sofie Swann
Located in Westport, CT
This 5" hand-painted sculptural cube by Sofie Swann is made with acrylic paint and gesso on wood. It features a cool palette with a turquoise-green background and painted teal circul...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Wood, Acrylic
"Little Swann 11" Painted Wooden Cube Sculpture
By Sofie Swann
Located in Westport, CT
This 5" hand-painted sculptural cube by Sofie Swann is made with acrylic paint and gesso on wood. It features light texture and a warm neutral plaette, with a grey background and a l...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Wood, Acrylic
"Canoe and Tornado" Abstract Contemporary Mixed Media
By Toby Topek
Located in Houston, TX
Minimal abstract style mixed media work by contemporary artist Toby Topek. The work is signed, titled, and dated on the back. It is framed in a white frame with a white matte.
Dimensions Without Frame: H 8 in x W 10 in.
Artist Biography:
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Topek grew up in Houston. She has studied archaeology, art, architecture, the environment, culture and history in Mexico, the Mediterranean, North Africa, Near East, Adriatic, Brazil and Canada. She lived and worked in Greece and Turkey part–time, 1984– 1988. Her work has been exhibited at the Whitney Bank Museum Branch–Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Fort Worth Modern Art Museum, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Galveston Art Center, the International Sculpture Conference Houston, College of the Mainland, Lawndale Art Center, Diverseworks, Women and Their Work-Austin, Transco Gallery and Project Row Houses. In 2000, she completed eleven 10 foot marble mosaic medallion...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Wood, Casein
Skate Boarder Times Square New York City after the Rain by British Urban Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Skate Boarder in Times Square New York City, after the Rain, by British Urban Landscape Artist, Angela Wakefield. This unique original is a major work to continue her epic New York S...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Gesso, Linen, Paint, Oil, Mixed Media, Cotton Canvas
Ora di Cena, Motherlode Collection. abstract Clay pigment, yarn, oil, canvas
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Clay pigment, gesso, needlepoint, and oil on canvas
Andrée B. Carter was born and raised in New Orleans. She has lived in Seattle and Los Angeles, and now resides in Palm Desert. An...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Yarn, Mixed Media, Oil
Bluebirds I, grey and white composition, abstracted with text "Drug of a Nation"
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Birds on repurposed galvanized steel.
Predominately monochromatic repeated, patterned, abstracted bird images
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Metal
Large Mirror Sculpture; 'Sphere Mirror'
Located in New York, NY
The artistic collaboration of Kelly Bugden + Van Wifvat has produced a thought-provoking body of sculptures, paintings, and constructions. Nature, childhood memories, and everyday archetypes take shape in unexpected combinations of materials. The works emerged as the tactile and visual senses channeled the ritualistic power and materiality of selected artifacts. The resulting objects exist in a space between what they were originally and what they could become. A wheel, for example, is distorted as if seen through a prism. Their collaboration grew out of years of shaping materials into one-of-a-kind objects. Intuitively, the process of creating with their hands took an inward turn. Prism is a travelogue through memories and dreams, yielding abstract forms that capture moments of transformation.
Van Wifvat grew up with eight siblings and studied sculpture and environmental design in Minneapolis at MCAD. In 1979, he opened a storefront art gallery to promote the work of local artists. The space featured printed materials—art books, periodicals, fanzines, and postcard’s. Wifvat moved to New York in 1983 to study at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Parsons. In 1987, he co-founded Van Gregory & Norton design studio, specializing in convex mirrors and curtain hardware...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gold Leaf
Park, abstracted tree nature image bright touches, graffiti markings
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas.
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Spray Paint
Nessun Dorma (No one sleeps) colorful abstract painting, birds, blue, grey tones
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Multi-layered oil paint, inked paper on repurposed wood panel. Title is from the final act of Puccini's "Turandot."
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Wood Panel, Archival Paper
'Dream of Life II' Romantic Portrait of a Young Woman
Located in Toronto, ON
Using a minimal palette of gesso and charcoal Anna Razumovskaya's 'Dream of Life II' is a beautiful study of a young woman gazing expectantly into th...
Category
2010s Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Charcoal
Black Forest- Abstract contemporary painting on canvas, modern red and black
Located in Dallas, TX
Emma Godebska's artwork is inspired by the Parisian luxury world of fashion, textures and pure color. "Black Forest" is a dramatic and contemporary abstract painting. It is created u...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Acrylic, Pigment, Gesso, Cotton Canvas
$7,200 Sale Price
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Mosaics (Barcelona)
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Mosaics is part of my latest series: Roots of a City.
Each painting in this series is based on the urban environments of places
that I have visited or lived in. There is an emotional...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Marble
The Rubble #1
Located in Palm Desert, CA
“The Rubble” series consists of seven tapestry-like
paintings hanging from hand-wrapped dowels. The color choice and materials
identify what can be destroyed, re-formed, and at some ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Thread, Paper, Pigment, Pins, Drypoint
The Rubble #5
Located in Palm Desert, CA
“The Rubble” series consists of seven tapestry-like
paintings hanging from hand-wrapped dowels. The color choice and materials
identify what can be destroyed, re-formed, and at some ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Thread, Paper, Pigment, Pins, Drypoint
Desert Gossip #1
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Desert Gossip is a series of four paintings that echo the
colors of the desert at dusk. The use of the threaded grid is set up to
anchor and reinforce the circular movement of the lo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Thread, Paper, Vinyl, Pigment
"Pieds Dans L'eau, " Abstract Painting
By Sofie Swann
Located in Westport, CT
This large abstract statement painting by Sofie Swann is made with acrylic paint and gesso on canvas. Marrying organic and geometric qualities, this painti...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Gesso
"Alhambra Facade Model", Early 20th Century Polychromed Stucco Plaque by R. Rus
Located in Madrid, ES
RAFAEL RUS ACOSTA
Spanish, Early 20th Century
ALHAMBRA FACADE MODEL PLAQUE
signed "Rafael Rus Acosta" (lower left), and inscribed "Granada" (lower righ...
Category
1920s Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Ceramic, Gesso
Rain Dots 2, contemporary urban landscape
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Drops of rain reflect bright lights and dot the stormy
sky of a rainy day. The windshield highlights the contrast of an intimate
experience within to the effect of the elements outsi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Board
Ego 160 - Chidy Wayne Coffee and vanish on paper
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Exclusive piece made for the exhibition at Rish Lab, Brussels.
Chidy Wayne (b. 1981, Spain) is an artist based in Barcelona. Over the years, he has established himself as a recogniz...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Deansgate in the Rain Manchester City Street Scene England by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Deansgate in the Rain - an Original Painting of a City Street Scene in Manchester, England, by British Cityscape Artist Angela Wakefield. It captures the changing nature of Mancheste...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
YChing 34 Great Strength
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Abstract. Philosophical. Colorful.
This canvas wanted to interconnect with the Y Ching AKA I Ching.
It is termed the Chinese Book of Changes. It is one of the main books of the spiri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Paste, Gesso, Varnish, Acrylic
Spring Bank II (Escapes), 2022 - Oil Painting of Flowers in Green and Pink
By Ffiona Lewis
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Ffiona Lewis was born in London but grew up in Devon, now dividing her time between her studios near the River Debden in Suffolk and London. She studied at the Polytechnic of Central...
Category
2010s Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Oil
'Morning Stroll' realist oil high realism animal signed by Cathryn Ruvalcaba
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Wisconsin artist, Cathryn Ruvalcaba creates images of classic midwestern farm scenes by zooming in on the animals that populate these fields. Her use of oil paint on gesso board offe...
Category
2010s Realist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Board
It’s Ok, 2017, (Série I CRY TO) 123 x 123 cm
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Matheus is greatly influenced by the city he now calls home -- New York has long been the epicenter of fashion, hip hop, and street art, where he feels his interest in contemporary a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Watercolor
Busy Signal
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Rising Collection, combines two key elements of my process --- my signature use of needlepoint, plus, mixing powdered pigments, gesso, and marble dust to create my own colors. These ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Marble
$3,360 Sale Price
20% Off
Lithica, Menorca Collection abstract mixed media resin yarn
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Needlepoint designed by artist, hemp cord, paper, white gesso, modeling paste, resin, and Flashe
Andrée B. Carter was born and raised in New Orleans. She has lived in Seattle and Lo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Paste, Gesso, Yarn, Resin, Mixed Media
$3,920 Sale Price
20% Off
Lerts A-Lerting
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Have you ever seen an Alert alerting? Well, now you have! Here are some Lerts A-Lerting. Up to you to decide what is so important that they are all A-lerting at the same time!!
Is i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Acrylic, Board
$1,431 Sale Price
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Forest, Whimsical red and white abstract painting
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
She lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, her chin on her folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees. - For Whom the Bell Tolls (mo...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Panel
Mahon, Menorca Collection abstract mixed media
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Needlepoint designed by artist, hemp cord, paper, white gesso, modeling paste, resin, and Flashe
Andrée B. Carter was born and raised in New Orleans. She has lived in Seattle and Lo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Paste, Gesso, Resin, Mixed Media
$3,920 Sale Price
20% Off
Rise Up Anyway!
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Even when the heaviness and challenge offered in life blocks your view, rise up anyway.
This was personal. Each time there is a a challenge, for me to rise u...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Linen, Acrylic
$1,120 Sale Price
20% Off
Mezzanotte, Motherlode Collection. abstract Clay pigment, gesso, needlepoint
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Clay pigment, gesso, needlepoint, and oil on canvas
Andrée B. Carter was born and raised in New Orleans. She has lived in Seattle and Los Angeles, and now resides in Palm Desert. An...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Yarn, Mixed Media, Oil
View from Cypress Hill
Located in Greenwich, CT
View From Cypress Hill is a serigraph on gesso board measuring 20 x 36," signed 'Ricker' lower right and annotated lower left. From the edition of 225, nu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Screen
Hang Up, from The Rising Collection
Located in Palm Desert, CA
The Rising Collection, my latest body of work, combines two key elements of my process—my signature use of needlepoint, plus, the use of powdered pigment, g...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Mixed Media
$3,440 Sale Price
20% Off
Saint John The Forerunner after a Russian Icon from the 16th Century
Located in Segovia, ES
Saint John, The Forerunner, after a Russian Icon from the 16th Century.
Tempera and gold leave on gesso over a wooden board.
Dimensions: (H) 33 x (W) 25,5 x (D) 4 cm.
Photos are included with the icon exposed to very different lighting, but all of them are natural.
John, The Forerunner, is depicted as an ascetic desert saint with a tousled beard and a coat made from camel hair. The expression that transmits his beautiful face is very intense.
This is how the artist sums up the technique used by him to create the icon:
“The aim of these steps is to create a durable painting. The icon is eternal.
The first step is to choose a support, traditionally made of wood, from the center of the trunk to avoid warping it. For this purpose, two hardwood bolts were often used on the back to give the picture panel additional stability.
Often a frame is milled out. Then the image carrier is sanded smooth and now 12 or 14 thin layers of gesso are applied and sanded smooth as well.
Then the preliminary drawing is applied and the drawing board is prepared with a special preparation called bolus. This bolus can be polished to a high gloss. Afterward, the gold leaf is
"shot" with special brushes. It dries up within a few hours and can now be polished with agate. Gold leaf is real 24-carat gold .
Now does the actual process of painting begins. Egg tempera is made fresh from egg yolk, water, and a little vinegar. This is used to prepare the color pigments.
Tempera painting is done in numerous layers from dark to light.
When the icon is finished, it is left to dry for a few months and varnished with a special varnish called Olifa made from boiled linseed oil and other ingredients”.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
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Category
1990s Byzantine Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gold Leaf
Tayo Heuser, Touch, 2016, ink on wood panel, Geometric Abstraction, Meditative
By Tayo Heuser
Located in Darien, CT
By developing a geometry between line and the spaces in between in their work, the abstract paintings of Tayo Heuser create a point of departure for the mind into a spiritual consci...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Wood Panel
Tayo Heuser, Arrival, 2016, ink on wood panel, Meditative, Abstract Geometric
By Tayo Heuser
Located in Darien, CT
By developing a geometry between line and the spaces in between in their work, the abstract paintings of Tayo Heuser create a point of departure for the mind into a spiritual consci...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Wood Panel
Cielo Sereno, Motherlode Collection abstract mixed media
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Needlepoint designed by the artist, clay pigment, gesso, and oil on canvas
Andrée B. Carter was born and raised in New Orleans. She has lived in Seattle and Los Angeles, and now res...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
$4,640 Sale Price
20% Off
Plays, large abstract with figure and text elements on canvas
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A sort of cityscape/skyscape concerned with simplicity, minimalism, negative space, and a story of art and the stock market.
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Canvas, Gesso, India Ink, Acrylic, Permanent Marker
'Untitled' Abstract Geometric Wall Piece Wood/Paint/Textile Black, White, Grays
Located in Wellesley, MA
ADDITIONAL PHOTOS OF THIS WORK WILL BE SENT UPON REQUEST.
NOTE COLOR OF WOOD IS NOT QUITE AS YELLOW AS IIT APPEARS IN PHOTO AND IS IN KEEPING WITH OTHERS IN THIS SERIES:
Jean Fein...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Wood Panel, Muslin
'Unraveled' Abstract Geometric Wall Piece Wood /Paint/Textile Black/White/Grays
Located in Wellesley, MA
ADDITIONAL PHOTOS OF THIS WORK WILL BE SENT UPON REQUEST:
Jean Feinberg is a NY based artist whose wall constructions - paintings on found wood and paintings on painted plywood - a...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Mixed Media, Burlap, Muslin, Oil, Wood Panel, Gesso
Tight Squeeze by Andrea Costa, Abstract Oil painting with Green, Blue
By Andrea Costa
Located in Atlanta, GA
Andrea Costa – Tight Squeeze – Original Mixed Media on Canvas
Make a statement with Tight Squeeze, a bold 60 x 48-inch mixed media on canvas by renowned artist Andrea Costa. This dy...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Mixed Media, Oil
House at an Angle, Original Holiday Greeting Card Christmas Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original Holiday Greeting Card Illustration featuring a snowy scene filled with horse-drawn sleighs at Christmastime
Medium: Egg Tempera on Gesso Board
Charlotte Joan Sternberg was born in Meriden, Connecticut in 1920. Early on, she became interested in art, and her parents encouraged her efforts. She attended public schools in the area, as well as taking art classes at the technical school. Afterwards, she attended the Yale School of Art. Her fellow classmates included Rudolph Zallinger, who executed the dinosaur mural at the Peabody Museum in New Haven; Jean Day Zallinger, renowned book illustrator; and Edward Paier, founder of the Paier College of Art. It was there that she became interested in egg tempera, and most of her well-known artwork was done in this medium. She was one of a number of Yale artists who revived this medium.(She did not work professionally in oils, although she sometimes used gouache or watercolor.)
She went on to a long career in commercial illustration. She worked extensively for J.Walter Thompson, doing advertising art for such companies as Esso (later Exxon), Textron, and Lederle pharmaceuticals. While she did a variety of subjects, she was best known for her Americana themes, particularly snow scenes of historic New England. Many of these pieces were published as Christmas cards for American Artists Group. She also taught for many years at the Paier College of Art.
She also did a number of limited edition prints for Greenwich Workshop. Her art is used on such items as tapestry pillows, puzzles, and decorative flags. She was commissioned to do several portraits, including those of Gov.John...
Category
20th Century Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Egg Tempera, Board
6.15.96
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on gessoed linen
Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she attende...
Category
1990s Color-Field Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Linen, Acrylic
$5,000
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