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pentimento (pĕn'təmĕn`tō), painter's term for the evidence in a work that the original composition has been changed. Often the opaque pigment with which the artist covered a mistake or unwanted beginnings will, with time or injudicious cleaning, become transparent, and a revelation of original intentions will become visible through the finished composition. A celebrated example is Caravaggio's Lute Player (Metropolitan Museum of Art) in which X-ray photography was used to uncover evidence of the painter's original intention. |
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Here pentimenti are unhesitant: When dissatisfied with a particular mark, Twombly painted it over with a flat coat of ground color. Diebenkorn also leaves traces of the pentimenti, or underlying drawing lines, that define his picture. Wurtz has cited Marcel Duchamp, Eva Hesse, and Andy Warhol as influences, going so far as to paint a triptych of three separate parts, pairing each of their names with a monochromatic color--respectively, green, yellow, and red--winkingly obvious brushwork covering pentimenti of each artist's work, the monochromes emblazoned with an identical Wurtzian icon of a house (shelter) enclosing a T-shirt (clothing) whose heart is a bowl (food). |
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