Year of creation | 2018 |
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Dimensions | 120 W × 80 H × 2 D cm |
Type of art | painting |
Style | abstract |
Genre | cityscapes |
Materials | acrylic, canvas |
Taking his color palette from the scene that he sees at that moment, he paints to replicate the look of the original scene. His hallmark "blur" is sometimes achieved with a hard smear made by an aggressive pull with a squeegee. ZT Tosha: "I don't create blurs. I blur things to make everything equally important and unimportant. So they don't look particularly artistic or craftsmanlike.
All of ZT Tosha’s paintings are made in a multi-step process of representation. He starts with a blank canvas, adding gray aerial perspective, while constantly rotating the canvas. Then he pours or splashes paint directly from their tubes onto a horizontal surface (drip technique), enabling him to view and paint his canvases from all angles. Taking his color palette from the scene that he sees at that moment, he paints to replicate the look of the original scene. His hallmark “blur” is sometimes achieved with a hard smear made by an aggressive pull with a squeegee.