Oil paint, acrylic paint, acrylic medium and spray paint on canvas
Tate Modern
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joan-snyder-30326" aria-label="More by Joan Snyder" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joan Snyder</a>
Dark Strokes Hope
Lent by the Tate Americas Foundation, courtesy of Tate Americas Foundation and Komal Shah 2020
<p>Between 1969 and 1972 Snyder created a series of ‘Stroke Paintings’. These feature arrays of distinct brushstrokes of various kinds and colours, in this work also including a handprint. ‘I was interested in process and I wanted to show the raw canvas... the gesso... the first layer of paint. I wanted to be able to see all those things in one painting... the anatomy of that painting, of how it evolved.’ Synder’s approach challenges us to look at painting at a slower pace, to follow the sequence of her strokes like a narrative text or a piece of music.</p><p><em>Gallery label, February 2024</em></p>
painting oil paint acrylic medium spray canvas
27 November 2023
27 November 2023
2023-11-27
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2023-11-27
Painterly Gestures
Collection based display
Dark Strokes Hope
support: 2006 × 2757 mm
Lent by the Tate Americas Foundation, courtesy of Tate Americas Foundation and Komal Shah 2020
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<p>Between 1969 and 1972 Snyder created a series of ‘Stroke Paintings’. These feature arrays of distinct brushstrokes of various kinds and colours, in this work also including a handprint. ‘I was interested in process and I wanted to show the raw canvas... the gesso... the first layer of paint. I wanted to be able to see all those things in one painting... the anatomy of that painting, of how it evolved.’ Synder’s approach challenges us to look at painting at a slower pace, to follow the sequence of her strokes like a narrative text or a piece of music.</p>
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