Sentences with phrase «abstract brushwork»

Specifically, this refers to Poons's regulated application of abstract brushwork combined with a seemingly spontaneous choice of color, which fills the surface space of the canvas, producing a low level optical sensation.

One was to explore expression through abstract brushwork and color and perhaps to make painterly drawing and field color more compatible.

The tension of near abstract brushwork, figure painting, and archetype looks ahead to art today.

Not exact matches

Bold brushwork in lush green and blue hues gives this abstract landscape a fresh modern point of view.

Beginning in 1960 Schapiro gradually eliminated the abstract expressionist brushwork from her paintings, introducing a variety of geometric forms.

In this presentation of abstract works, you'll see how artists, including Robert Motherwell, Betty Parsons, and Joan Mitchell used loose brushwork and emphasized surface rather than depth on the canvas.

The Berkeley series, produced between 1953 and 1956, is marked by radiant color, strong compositions and gestural brushwork that maintain a sense of landscape through their abstract composition.

The close valued color shifts, luminosity, paint quality, brushwork, texture, and alloverness of drawing anticipate Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, the arrival of Morris Louis, Larry Poons and much of what was to come in the best abstract painting from the 1940's to the present day.

His early abstract - ish paintings, small and wan, were nothing if not winning... but does the old formula (near - monochromatic color, sketchy brushwork, mysterious fading imagery) still work when the scale is monumental?

Metier begins with an actual subject, and then, using her expressive brushwork, turns it into an abstract composition; though more representational than usual for her, these paintings were still very much a part of her classic style.

One could easily leap to David Reed, for virtuoso brushwork with the look of photography, or to Jacob Kassay and other abstract exploiters of photography's «strange magic.»

One of the more difficult tasks for younger artists is to make abstract painting genuinely new — that is, sincerely and intelligently felt instead of performed (as with too much geometric work) or blurted out (as with too much AbEx - redux brushwork) like a rant in a family argument.

In his abstract paintings of the 1950s and 1960s, expressionistic color and brushwork intersect with patterns, shapes, and pictographic forms inspired by the dynamic compositions of African sculpture, painting, and textile design.

Nearby, Jennifer Nichols works with thin, bright acrylic, creating abstract tumults of transparent brushwork and, more recently, calmer arrangements of letterlike shapes.

However, his rejection of the expressive brushwork employed by other abstract expressionists such as Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko, and his use of hard - edged areas of flat color, can be seen as a precursor to post painterly abstraction and the minimalist works of artists such as Frank Stella.

One of the youngest of the second - generation abstract expressionists, he invites comparison with such figures as Alfred Leslie and Grace Hartigan, whose vigorous brushwork brought them attention in the 1950s but whose changing styles have made their oeuvres tricky to summarize.

Her painting styles itself add texture too, especially in her abstract canvases, combining older silkscreen techniques with digital imaging technologies like Microsoft paint, impasto brushwork with newspaper ads.

While the two schools of abstract expressionist painting shared certain characteristics ---- large scale; bold, gestural brushwork; emphasis on the materiality of paint; figure and ground equal or collapsed into overall, non-hierarchical compositions ---- Bay area artists, influenced by Asian cultures and the expansiveness of the western landscape, in addition to European painting, invited landscape references into their work whereas New York painters resisted such associations.

Elements of symbolism, reminiscent of Gustav Klimt, decorate the composition with abstract markings and calligraphic gestural brushwork.

Abstractionists working in a painterly, post-Minimalist manner — an approach that combines a pared - down, abstract vocabulary with either expressive brushwork or Pop art's theatricality — can be divided into two groups: those who are demonstrating abstraction's continuing vitality and those who are simply nostalgic for its high - toned rhetoric.

Krieger's rich palette, textured surfaces and raw, stormy brushwork evoke the paintings of Chaim Soutine, Amedeo Modigliani and abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning.»

Something about aluminum as a painting surface is suited to the kind of abstract painting Solomon does: energetic, hastily applied brushwork that is thick in some places and as thin as a wash in others.

In his new work, the painterliness is more expressive and composition pared down: a small sad donkey wails into the large abstract atmosphere, or in another painting, a goofy horse with a heroic cape pounces into a large field of vibrant pink brushwork.

Groundbreaking for its day, particularly as a woman ceramicist, Choy's work aesthetically merged the formalist influences of abstract expressionism with traditional calligraphic brushwork of Asian potters.

William Baziotes (1912 - 63) Decorative biomorphic abstracts with soft misty brushwork and tonal harmony.

Willem de Kooning's later abstract paintings are consistently placed within the sight - lines of John Mason's totemic glazed clay sculptures, their roughly hewn, hand - formed surfaces in uncanny harmony with the heavy impasto of de Kooning's brushwork.

My response to the place was in the form of large abstract works painted in thin layers, with drips, hardly any brushwork.

Paradoxically, this didn't prevent his broken, loose brushwork from acting as a precursor for abstract expressionism during the 1940s and 50s.

From Joan Mitchell's loaded brushwork in Before, Again IV (1985) to Wayne Thiebaud's painting Candy Counter (1962), in which lush pigment seems to frost the images of cakes, a tactile application of paint energizes both abstract and figurative canvases.

Painter, sculptor, poet, and musician Larry Rivers was an established figure in the New York School, recognized for creating large paintings merging abstract and narrative elements, as in Washington Crossing the Delaware (1953), where the general leads his men through a space defined by murky oil washes and broad gestural brushwork.

Sammy Peters produces abstract, multimedia compositions whose complex, layered images are made up of expressive brushwork, scribbles, gestural marks, drips, and collaged papers and fabrics.

While art had always been to a certain extent abstract in that formal considerations had frequently been of primary importance, painters, beginning with the impressionists in the 1870s, took new delight in freedom of brushwork.

Attila Richard Lukacs fuses an almost classical style of painting with gritty and raw brushwork reminiscent of the abstract expressionists.

Some, stymied by the language barrier, tend to think about the physical act of the brushwork in the more familiar terms of dance or choreography, or to see the characters as abstract shapes.

Driving the brush through his body movements, his style of layered abstract ink - splashes and dynamic freehand brushwork in varying intensities of ink create forceful fields of darkness — «emotional explosions» that convey powerful feeling and give form to the artist's energy and exertion.

The vigorous brushwork used by Nancy Lorenz, who lived in Tokyo as a teenager, references Japanese aesthetics and abstract expressionism.

He as well focused on abstracts for a time, discovering new media in his works with quick brushwork and expressive movements.

A 1967 graduate of the Royal College of Art, Jacklin began working as an abstract artist, but soon turned his attention to representation and typically painting urban street scenes, emphasising patches of light with loose brushwork, redolent of Impressionism.

Among the preeminent abstract painters of her generation, Heilmann creates works that are both formally adventurous and richly evocative, marked by loose brushwork and bold patterning.

Famous for his brutal brushwork, impasto textures and clashing colours, he exemplified the «gestural painting» style of the New York School, along with other abstract artists like Franz Kline (1910 - 62), Jackson Pollock (1912 - 56) and Lee Krasner (1908 - 84), the founders of «action painting».

The French painter Georges Mathieu was a leading exponent of Art Informel (the French version of abstract expressionism), and is best - known for his spiky calligraphic - style abstract paintings characterized by sweeping gesturalist brushwork, as in Untitled (1959, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York).

Sydney Licht's luscious cake - frosting color and mixture of palette - knife bluntness and little filigreed brushwork redeliver the mysteries of Cubism with a side of psilocybin dreams; Fran Shalom's flattening forms pile up frontally with the blunt force of full - on abstract - reality.

Appel's work consists mainly of abstract paintings with bright colours, very active brushwork and heavy impastoed oil paint.

Here he comes again, the big bruiser, with his outsize paintings and that rampant, shoving, rucking, swiping brushwork that draws attention to itself (to himself) on a scale unparalleled since the early days of abstract expressionism.

With abstract form and explosive brushwork, the series has been lauded as among her most psychologically evocative works.

As a rebuttal to abstract expressionism's gestural brushwork, Feitelson's paintings from this period balance simplified forms with flattened space and smooth paint application.

In Time Out New York Joseph R. Wolin suggests that von Heyl's paintings exploit the conventions of abstract painting while adding suggestions of representation to to her potent mix of gestural brushwork and hard - edged forms.

Manish's photographs zoom in on clumsily made drains with grey patches, brown streaks and gravelly seams, relating carelessly slapped - on cement to the critically esteemed gestural brushwork of abstract expressionism.

By 1939 he was able to break away from the Expressionistic landscapes and still lifes he had painted in the early 1930s, and he developed a totally abstract manner notable for its wealth of invention, vigorous brushwork, and saturated colours.

Art historians had begun using the term «abstract expressionism» at the end of World War I to refer to Kandinsky and other Europeans who painted abstractly with expressionist brushwork.