By April Kingsley
"Edward Clark's Luminous Expanses"
The American Rag, New York, 1980. p 138.
Clark
invented a technique with a ... potential for speed in the early sixties
when he began pushing acrylic pigment rapidly across the surface in one long
swoop of a push broom. Splashes and splats of paint flew off on every side
and were left there as mementos of the gesture's thrust. He had found that
using a paint brush, even the wide one of the house painter, caused his hands
to make short curving strokes whereas what he wanted was a single long swoop
that could unify the canvas from side to side. The push broom's straight
lines, and the straight path it cuts, made it the perfect tool for expressing
the aggressive sexuality of his personal style.
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