Already i am seeing some similarities with this person regarding his practice,
"Since Louis did not sign, date, or title paintings unless they were released for exhibition or sale, most of the stored canvases bore no inscriptions. Furthermore, since he painted with his canvas tacked to a temporary work stretcher, rolled paintings when they were dry, and determined precise dimensions only when pictures were stretched for exhibition or sale, even the exact dimensions of the paintings that formed his estate were uncertain. And the intended hanging orientation for some paintings was unclear because he had demonstrated some flexibility in regard to that issue when he was alive. Added to the magnitude of possible questions this situation raised for the advisors to the Louis Estate was the fact that Louis had kept no records, diary, or notes relating to his paintings".
This is very much like me when im working on pieces im not sure why he does this but neither am i.
He tacked the canvas to a work stretcher and poured the paint from top to bottom (using both matte and glossy paints), draining the excess off along the bottom, this worked very well by the looks of it and i like how clean and simple it looks because it seems like it be hard to get a crisp hard line finish between the colors, alot of control and patience was needed for this by the looks of it.
When Leonard Bocour first saw Louis’s Stripe paintings in 1961, he was overwhelmed by the artist’s ability to maintain the equal intensity and saturation of each stripe along its entire length, a feat Bocour could not duplicate when testing the paints for these same qualities. He recalls asking Louis how he had achieved such results, to which the painter reportedly replied, “You got something to say, you say it.”
I love the reply that Morris gave here seems like something id say.
for an early painter as Morris, i think these paintings are great and unique i really like the intensity and sharpness of each different color and i didn't expect to see something like this from an early painter from 1962!
Bit boring but interesting documentary here, very interesting nearer the end.
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