Jean-Paul Riopelle to abstract expressionism), in which he used myriad tumultuous cubes and triangles of multicolored elements, facetted with a palette knife, spatula, or trowel, on often large canvases to create powerful atmospheres. The presence of long filaments of paint in his painting from 1948 through the early 1950s has often been seen as resulting from a dripping technique like that of Jackson Pollock. Rather, the creation of such effects came from the act of throwing, with a palette knife or brush, large quantities of paint onto the stretched canvas (positioned vertically). Riopelle's voluminous impasto became just as important as color. His
Paul Morrison (artist) Angeles in 2000 and at the Royal Academy in London in 2002. Morrison lives and works in Sheffield. He is best known for his large monochromatic botanical landscapes. "Phytochrome" is typical of this aspect of the artist's work. All his images are painted in two coats of acrylic paint. They are then scanned into a computer, manipulated and projected onto the canvas. The different elements tend to be disproportionate in size: tiny plants become huge, while massive trees shrink. This is called 'cognitive landscape'. Paul Morrison (artist) Paul Morrison is an English painter. He was born in Liverpool in 1966,