Sentences with phrase «painted gestures conjure»

Not exact matches

The luridly colored spray paint conjures the machismo and brio of the best street artists, while the abstract gestures recall Abstract Expressionists like Mark Rothko and Richard Pousette - Dart.

While Brown's paintings are emphatically handmade, the conjuring of protean form from an inchoate swarm gestures to very contemporary forms of digital animation.

The subjects conjured from her imagination are always black — a «political gesture», she says, since «we're used to looking at portraits of white people in painting.»

With this breezy, refined gesture, the artist, who worked in the San Francisco Bay area until her death, in 1989, conjures her most famous painting, «The Rose,» from 1958 - 1966, which, as a Sisyphean two - ton grisaille relief, could not be more different.

The Venice paintings, shimmering surfaces in silver and gold that recall the mosaics of St. Mark's and that city's Byzantine splendor, are juxtaposed with the New York works — giant sheets of shiny and scratched copper, cut through by dynamic vertical gestures that conjure the force of Manhattan and its powerful, electric skyline.

While conjuring the loaded psychology of the bed — locus of erotic intimacy, portal to our dream worlds, fraught site of our sleepless nights — the paintings also gesture toward transcendence with their invocation of vast, horizonless spaces.

The artist has selectively stained the documents with pink and purple spray paint, a gesture that conjures the ways in which blood splatters.