Sentences with phrase «abstract brushstroke»

Titian used a looser, more abstract brushstroke that gave an unfinished quality to highly expressive effect, while Rodin, upon viewing Michelangelo's uncompleted sculptures, recognized the emotional power of leaving visible the emergence of form from raw material.

Crafted from luxuriously soft silk, our striking Blurred Ikat Stripe Pillow Cover captures the beautiful colors of the Balinese coast with its mix of abstract brushstrokes and ikat - inspired prints.

Lu Zheng - yuan deliberately painted the paintings with a live plant to dip in asphalt, leaving abstract brushstrokes created with the forms of the plant branches on the canvases.

Thick, abstract brushstrokes yield figurative images — sometimes of rapid motion, sometimes of thoughtful serenity — that convey...

It is the antagonism between how we read the text in the paintings and how they can be perceived as fields of abstract brushstrokes that give these works their edginess.

I'm with you — abstract brushstrokes for the win!

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An intricate study of neutral colors and loose brushstrokes, this artwork creates an abstract image that beckons the viewer's imagination.

Earthy brushstrokes of charcoal and sand dragged across an ivory ground create the impression of drifting snow in this contemporary abstract.

For this particular print mix, I was inspired by the concept of co-ord pieces and I was looking to create a less chaotic print pairing that closely resembled a co-rd set and this abstract print shorts and brushstroke top were a perfect mismatch to achieve my vision.

Contributed by Sharon Butler / In «Of Earth and Sky,» on view at Susan Eley Fine Art, Rachelle Krieger presents a new series of elegant abstract paintings in which winding brushstrokes float throughout tightly - cropped square spaces.

As an abstract expressionist, West often used hard edged and bold brushstrokes in her paintings.

The landscapes, which are simultaneously descriptive and abstract, depict the changing of the seasons with quick, flickering brushstrokes and delineated bands of vivid hues.

Working in tactile layers with impassioned, energetic brushstrokes, Brown relishes the fluid, viscous properties of the medium, conjuring flickering human traces through abstract painterly dynamism.

Donald's cartoonish features are hopelessly confused in a medley of expressive brushstrokes — and yet his presence there at all renders the ostensibly abstract idiom absurd.

But he also knows that, by this time, there has been so much abstract expressionist brushstrokes.

By the mid-1960s, Tworkov began to feel that abstract expressionism was losing «the exuberance that was a condition of [its] birth,» and the loose brushstrokes and color fields of his earlier style were replaced by his lifelong interest in mathematics and variations on geometric systems.

Ms. Benjamin attacks her canvases with chunky, muscular brushstrokes that abstract her varied imagery, Ms. Braman creates 3 - D hybrid objects that burst with color (painted or otherwise) and Ms. Cherubini builds absurdist ceramics with careening ornamental flare.

He still wants to make abstract expressionist brushstrokes.

In other works, brushstroke, drip, and gesture recall that abstract expressionism — or, more closely, neo-expressionism — which surrounds us; many artists here also employing a sensitive line and a fluidity not clearly evident in the1937 prints.

Crisp lines and thick, nearly impressionistic brushstrokes characterize the majority of Matthews» more naturalistic paintings, while her abstract works, unencumbered by the boundaries of line and shape, emanate a similar, joyful exuberance.

While the mass of agitated brushstrokes initially seem like abstract marks, prolonged looking reveals a multitude of heads and figures populating the painting.

The individual curls and ripples of paper echo the contours of traditional brushstrokes, in some passages even taking on the gestural quality of abstract expressionist paintings.

The large scale of the Nymphéas (two meters wide and one meter high), its expressive and very present brushstrokes and very abstract rendering of all its natural elements would have a lasting influence on the future generations of artists.

He approaches this topic in a different way in Woman, 1981, and his Brushstroke Head sculptures from 1987 by treating the shape of a brushstroke as an abstract image in its own right, which he then uses to compose the face and body Brushstroke Head sculptures from 1987 by treating the shape of a brushstroke as an abstract image in its own right, which he then uses to compose the face and body brushstroke as an abstract image in its own right, which he then uses to compose the face and body of a woman.

In the 1980s his work became less figurative, and his vibrant colour palette and intense brushstrokes laid the groundwork for the completely abstracted works that followed.

A painterly abstract print with expressionistic brushstrokes in blacks, greys and soft greens.

From close up the work seems abstract, as if the artist is concentrating on experiments with different colors and brushstrokes.

Not lines and not brushstrokes with any overly aggressive verve, Hughes's upright shafts of color replace the struggle that you see in so much abstract painting with an exuberance that seems soft and effortless.

For more than sixty years, Virginia - born artist Judith Godwin has explored abstract painting, recording motion and gesture with brushstrokes on canvas.

Through his use of gestural brushstrokes, Paul created inherent motion within his works, leading many art historians to name him the first action painter and a precursor to the abstract expressionists of the 1950s.

Since the New York School were primarily abstract painters, there is no direct address to the subject of drink in their works, although the urgency of brushstroke and facture often seem to be invoking an internal drama of intoxication, disinhibition and released authenticity.

Although Bluhm lived an ocean away from the epicenter of abstract expressionism, his works of the early 1950s share its gestural brushstrokes, visible paint drips, and pulsating color.

This includes paint (another tool at her disposal); Color Field painting; the brushstroke, squiggle, and line; Chinese and Japanese art; Indian miniatures; abstraction; figuration; abstract illusionism; inspirational posters; children's book illustrations; greetings cards; thrift store merchandise; wheels from bicycles, go carts, and strollers; buttons; embroidery and appliqué; mythology; essays on other artists.

Her paintings feature wildly colorful brushstrokes and her color monotypes showcase the sensory overload and luscious texture found in those paintings, while her black - and - white drawings are haunting and gestural, blurring together figurative and abstract elements.

Each painting is begun in abstract until, floating in the brushstrokes, «I find something to grasp onto and it eventually becomes figures.»

These evocations are also in Untitled (Gaeta), 1989, in which the abstract mass of purple, black, and white acrylic and tempera brushstrokes calls to mind an explosion of wine - ready grapes during harvest.

Norman Lewis's painting America the Beautiful (1960) appears to be a typical mid-twentieth-century abstract, gestural painting, but on closer inspection, the expressive white brushstrokes crystallize into the familiar hoods and crosses of the Ku Klux Klan.

The artist appropriated the brushstrokes of abstract expressionism - which are supposed to be full of personal meaning - and reduced them to a comic strip.

Elizabeth Osborne's paintings have become more radically abstract in the last decade, but one can trace the thick, elongated brushstrokes back to the views of Arizona, Maine, and Maryland from the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Resnick continued to work in an abstract style until the late 1980s, when he started creating a series of gouaches featuring simplified human forms suspended in a field of brushstrokes and color.

[20] In this new abstract format Wesselmann preferred a random approach, and made compositions in which the metal cut - outs resembled gestural brushstrokes.

Through the influence of pop - culture, books, art history, but most importantly nature, Smith's abstract paintings are often created by minimalistic tools, such as loose brushstrokes in his Rain Paintings, or form camouflage - style patterns, resembling Andy Warhol's production, in his Tigres series.

Moreover, the brushstroke and the choreography of shapes attest to what can be described as a performative act, one that offers a navigable experience for the viewer pointing to the legacy of abstract expressionism.

Donald's cartoonish features are hopelessly confused in a medley of brushstrokes — and yet his presence there at all renders the ostensibly abstract idiom absurd.

Using empathic, generously paint - loaded brushstrokes and filling the picture with the myriad of details, his pieces were imbued with representational lucidity and abstract texture.

Though he still utilizes the textured quality of a post-impressionist brushstroke, his rocks, trees and hills are reduced to nearly abstract forms.

She has never stopped painting, always abstracting from fruit stands or saints or museum masterpieces, trying out thin washes, sweeping brushstrokes, expressive drawing masked by repetitive drips.

His Surrender Flag with Dollar Skull, or Surrender Flag with Zombie Abstraction, 2015, appears as a sort of battle standard in the face of a whitewashed art market that has embraced a brand of politically neutered, highly salable abstract painting, many of whose trappings Vélez reworks into his own practice — airbrushed lines, torn canvases, messy brushstrokes.

With raw canvases that are almost always linen and large - scale, contemporary abstract artist Yangyang Pan dexterously intersperses her paintings with striking splotches of dense, textured brushstrokes, characterized by unpredictable shapes and vivid hues that form her aesthetically beautiful images.

Nay's loose brushstrokes focus on the abstract potential of color.