big painting big painting big painting big painting oil canvas painting measuring series artworks includes paintings sculptures subject actions house painter brush set record auction price painting living american artist sold painting collection works satirical response painting like ben day dots works depiction mechanical reproduction technique case satire comes depiction graphical depiction spontaneous painting motion detail history early established record auction price painting living american artist dollars sale torn label vegetable beef series sale american auction house day later acquired record broken november big painting auction sale dollars german art dealer source entire series strange suspense stories october big painting collection description painting ben day dots background layered vigorous atop white yellow green red focal point central red depicts paint black contribute dynamic effect dimensional work subject painting process abstract painting sweeping result uses ben day dots background representation mechanical industrial color printing reproduction big painting depicts typical abstract extremely large scale depicted reproduction imitation painting steps removed original abstract effort satire includes fact took great deal time achieve complicated reproduction reception big painting prime example works turned mundane household task planned artistic operation time consuming task appear produced instant painting regarded example subtle humor expressed rendered commercial parody action painting according confronting state art world vocabulary attacked earlier work explicit subject athletic 1950s hardened seen lens commercial imagery results witty use art comment art revive ironically energy style parodied uses overlapping forms single form distinct adjacent forms create dynamic feel shallow space uses contrast strokes bold black outlines void certain elements depth big painting yellow green step terms canvas size dynamic activity presented earlier big painting result producing abstract works quasi mechanical means form uses quasi mechanical method conform spontaneous loaded comic strip ben day formula critic considers converted wide brush strokes work representing mass production
Big Painting No. 6