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
Portrait of Jack Hunter personal meeting with Feshin took place. Fechin expressed a wish to paint a portrait of Jack R. Hunter in gratitude for his help with moving artist family's to America and it's was done. Since 1923 until recently "The Portrait of Jack R. Hunter" was kept in the family of a collector. In 1958 soon after artist dead Jack Hunter wrote the memories of Fechin at the request of the daughter of the artist Iya Nikolaevna Feshin-Branham. In the middle of 2010 "Portrait of Jack R. Hunter" appeared in the art market and was put up for sale by one of