What do you think of the concept of painting without paint? Consider Katharina Grosse's One Floor Up More Highly and Petra Cortright's 007 goldeneye_all characters cheat as examples of this kind of genre. Discuss elements in each of these works that commonly appear in more traditional painted works.
What will be an ideal response?
Both Grosse's One Floor Up More Highly and Cortright's 007 goldeneye_all characters cheat use bright colors, a feature common to most painting mediums, especially oil, tempera, gouache, and pastels. Grosse's work is an installation, but incorporates aspect of painting, including acrylic itself. Cortright's streaks and lines of color look as if they were made with a paintbrush rather than a printer. These marks are the artist's homage to the essence of her medium-the painting made with brushes-but in a contemporary, high-tech form. She even calls them brushstrokes.
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