- Artist
- Joan Snyder born 1940
- Medium
- Oil paint, acrylic paint, acrylic medium and spray paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 2006 × 2757 mm
- Collection
- Lent by the Tate Americas Foundation, courtesy of Tate Americas Foundation and Komal Shah 2020
On long term loan - Reference
- L04360
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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.
Gallery label, February 2024
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