skin of paint

Mr. Beardman applies paint to wax slabs, peels it off when dry and adheres the skin of paint to canvas in rectangular sections.

The flat horizontal and vertical pulls of paint that dominate these luminous works, usually applied with big sheets of plastic, show the skin of paint stretched literally to the breaking point.

Mr. Collins's gleaming surfaces, infinitesimal shadings of color, unexpected spatial shifts and juxtapositions of ruled and irregular, sharp focus and soft, all anchor the viewer in the present, contemplating the physical and perceptual facts of the thin skin of paint that the artist has set before us.