Sentences with phrase «bold gestures of»

The small Apple Tree, 1965, trod delicately between faithful observation of the particular and the bold gestures of improvised abstraction.

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He backed it up with the bold symbolic gesture of clearing the wall of patents that once graced the lobby of Tesla's headquarters.
Francis is a man of bold words and striking gestures.
This is an effort that can only be expressed from the heart in silent but bold testimony by the outpouring of respect through the simple gesture of showing up, render a hand salute, and «light the night» by raising your flashlight above your head and sending a beacon skyward from Rockland County's community.
With numerous heading options and the chance to number or bullet, the little gesture of bolding certain words and creating specific lists is what will make the big difference.
Whilst the linear landscape format and the bold gestures in strong colour, for me recall Ivon Hitchens and Howard Hodgkin, there is something entirely contemporary in the experimentation with support and the unorthodox approach to «composition», it might even be an anti-composition, approaching a cataloguing of visual statements, that resists, at least for a few moments, forming into a picture.
In Old Bottles, striking gestures, mute interiors, pensive moments, decorative patterns and bold branding collide in a vivid crescendo of disjunctive harmony.
Sometimes it is seen in a single, liberated gesture or a bold interruption of color.
The works employ broad gestures, bold and uncommon colors and an imaginative subjectivity reminiscent of mid-century New York School abstract painting and the CoBrA group of artists.
He eschewed the bold gestures and tight geometry of what many consider the distinctly American characteristics of Abstract Expressionism.
Alexi Brown - Schmidt and Rose Marcus are two emerging painters who use palettes of bold and moody color, applied to paper or canvas with exuberant gestures.
But these paintings aren't, of course, just instant pleasers — Diebenkorn is bold and big - gestured as a painter, but these are also paintings that are layered, textured, subtle, nuanced, complex.
His paintings were lauded for their luminous, ethereal, and tactile fields of bold gesture and color.
Her seemingly frenzied painting technique — actually involving the deliberate accretion of successive layers of bold linear gestures, rapid repainting and frequent erasures — results in alternately humorous and sinister imagery.
Franz Kline's bold and monumental black and white gestures captured the dynamism of New York's changing landscape.
Influenced by Cubism, he created a vocabulary of interlocking shapes and bold, sweeping gestures that served as a transition between his early figurative expressionism and his later abstract constructivist concerns.
Geva primarily uses bold gestures to propel and push paint over the surface of multilayered canvases, sometimes done in diptychs, which often include recognizable images like birds, tree branches, and flowers.
Layered in image & texture, monumental in - scale, and featuring bold strokes, free gestures, and vibrant colors, works from 1985 to 2005 record in an abstract vein a period of intensified cultural and demographic transition even for an ever - changing city like New York.
Recognizable, yet abstract, this dreamlike series highlights the artist's bold, expressionist use of color, line, and gesture.
Hofmann made works of astonishing variety, crossing the boundaries between allusion and invention, reference and abstraction, in paintings ranging from the broadly invoked interiors, still lifes, and landscapes of his first American years, to eerie surrealizing «creatures,» minimal geometric abstractions, and finally, the bold confrontations of pulsating rectangles of thick paint — the acclaimed «Slabs» — and the orchestrations of free - floating, varied painterly gestures that characterized his last years.
Gesture and color occupy positions of prominence in each of the works on view: from the drawn effect of Cumberland's hastily «colored in,» stenciled circles to the thick, bold wipes rippling across Syed's canvases, and the doodled glyphs floating above Brett's patterned backdrops.
Swiping gestures, made in sand and memorialized in cast aluminum, hang from a bold blue tree near the center of the room.
These pieces are bold, full of forceful gesture and motion.
The sweeping gestures and fearless colors of Liliane Tomasko's stunning paintings are the lure, but once I engaged with the work I found myself trying to unravel some of the skein of three - dimensional layers in the big, bold, recent Who you were is not what you will be.
Deeply fascinated by dance and theater, he created motorized and wind - propelled artworks that execute a choreography of gentle rotations and bold, unpredictable gestures, and at... Read More
Jill Moser's elegant paintings and prints are marked by frenetic bursts of line and color, which are punctuated by «pops» of linear movement and bold gestures.
What initially appear to be bold, expressionist gestures, slowly reveal themselves as meticulous constructions of colored, silicone caulk — with each rendered gesture then collaged onto the painting's surface.
As a result, each bold line and cross-hatch the artist used to construct the image is vividly communicated, revealing White's signature style, which blends gestures of painting, printmaking, and drawing with text to create new visual content.
The austere nature of these compositions permit the artist's gestures, both bold and minute, to articulate an unrepeatable space that is viscerally felt.
When it was first exhibited in the 1880s, Wheeler's pensive look captivated some viewers, while the painting's bold palette agitated others.5 Again, Chase gestured to the Old Masters, and Hals in particular, but he also nodded to his contemporary James McNeill Whistler's famous portrait of the artist's mother (1871; Musée d'Orsay).
It's as if her bold, painted gestures partially obscure a wall papered with many layers of finely detailed Asian textiles that now reveal themselves as jagged bits and pieces.
The word «Stroke» in the title of the exhibit is meant to reference not only a brush stroke, but also any bold gesture that gives the work a palpable sense of energy.
In others, vistas take shape from an economical use of bold, confident gestures.
These works have the artists» entire bodies built up within the bold marks and gestures; they are cathartic and full of fevered excitement even when the strokes are seemingly controlled in systematic compositions.
Using bold gestures in paint, Porter addresses the specific character of people, places, and things as they are — from two matter - of - fact yet tender paintings of the family's Golden Retriever Bruno, to portraits of his young daughters in the familiar architecture of their home, surrounded by furniture and furnishings that likewise become active members of the scene.
The bold pigments are not mixed, and different layers of hues react with one another to create inconsistencies that themselves become the attestations of painterly gesture.
Moved by an enthusiasm for intense colour and bold expressive gestures, Thomas Olbricht has spent the last 30 years collecting abstract art in a wide variety of styles.
At the time, even though I was involved with all the Abstract Expressionists, I wasn't content to make bold gestures and convey that type of energy.
Bold, gesture - driven applications of vinyl paint (gesso) are juxtaposed against horizontal bands of heavy and opaque fabric that have been sewn together.
Her seemingly frenzied technique — actually involving the deliberate accretion of successive layers of bold linear gestures, rapid spattering and frequent erasures — results in alternately humorous and sinister imagery.While her prima facie subject matter ranges from Batman, The Simpsons and Mickey Mouse -LSB-...]
That's just the beginning of this very bold project, mind you, with phase 2 of the module development process aimed at bringing fingerprint recognition, gesture controls, body temperature tracking and air quality monitoring to the table, among others.
Instead, President Obama is making quieter gestures that, taken together, when he leaves the Oval Office might well represent a bolder change of direction for early education than many thought as he pushed those changes through.
She and partner Erin Feasby designed this room for a tween girl, incorporating plenty of colour, playful patterns, bold gestures and youthful energy.
Classic forms, unexpected combinations and a few bold gestures assemble to define a space that is inviting and inspiring, speaking to the legacy of this designer who knew no limits.
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