Sentences with phrase «abstract paint handling»

Meg Lipke and Sangram Majumdar use plants as a vehicle for abstract paint handling.

Not exact matches

Semmel's near - decade of experience with abstract painting informs Green Heart's urgent paint handling, expressive color, and push - and - pull composition.

An important distinction that made color field painting different from abstract expression was the paint handling.

Characterized by intuitive and loose paint handling, spontaneous expression, illusionist space, acrylic staining, process, occasional imagery, and other painterly techniques, the abstract works included in this exhibition sing with rich fluid color and quiet energy.

The paintings that follow here, through the early 1950s, further distill this abstract mood, with formal structure evolving into ever - more - expressive deployments of color and paint - handling — the siren flash of Orange Personage (1947), the blood and bones of The Hotel Corridor (1950).

In fact, Rauschenberg and Johns belong to abstract expressionism (with Jim Dine a variation on their themes), Rosenquist is a billboard Surrealist who marries Magritte's paint handling to collage space, and Lichtenstein is a hard - edge painter, whose two - dimensional surface patterns and crisp outlines derive as much from Kelly as from comic strips.

A gorgeous flood of lilac splats hedonistically across «Kumari»; the painting's surround configuration of expressively handled discs of green, aquamarine and red, all on a volatile stained ground of yellow, places it in a well - established tradition of abstract paintings that read as cosmic metaphors (Pollock's drip paintings that were meant to mirror universal flux or more recently Julian Schnabel's blue splurge titled, tongue - in - cheek, «Portrait of God»).

As Alan Gouk pointed out recently, those somebodies often end up being Joan Mitchell and Philip Guston, American painters not without their own flaws, and it is on their account that scores of contemporary abstract artists readily and without question adopt a «hell for leather» approach to paint handling that through its complacency tends to have very familiar results.

Bay Area figuration was characterized by a successful wedding of the figure to an abstract expressionist method of paint handling.

The representational style that Ms. Dodd has since explored comes into focus with paint handling and abbreviation yielding their own abstract forms.

His sophisticated paint handling allows the artist to be as abstract or realistic as he deems appropriate; the subject matter varies from foreshortened stacks of wood, to cracked and dried dirt - scapes, to WWII airplanes, to still - lives of tumbling bowls and complex fields of gray - scale circles.

Measuring more than nine feet wide and seven feet high, Mountains and Sea subscribed to the ambitious scale already associated with abstract expressionism, and it also featured the loose, gestural paint handling that was becoming a trademark of the New York School.

The more recent abstract works demonstrate Dodge's fascinating and physical paint handling.

In 300 objects it follows an artist who didn't so much abandon art as push it slowly, painstakingly and even logically — in small abstract paintings, wall pieces and flexible sculptures — to a place where objects and materials were meant to be handled and viewers became participants, alone or in groups.

Whatever style from her early abstracts through to her figuration she handles paint fluently, her palette choices are selected with ease and confidence and show a debt to her Austrian heritage with more than a nod to Egon Schiele's expressionist compositions and Oskar Kokoschka's vivid colours and the European avant - garde.

Some of them, such as the handling of paint - brusque, clotted, ejaculatory - come straight out of the language of abstract expressionism, and in particular of Willem de Kooning's pictorial lingo, which was the nursery talk of Rauschenberg's artistic childhood - the parental language he both loved and rebelled against.

Moira Dryer (1957 - 1992) Part II of The Tourist 1990 acrylic on stretched fabric with metal handle 13 x 24 x 1 1/2 inches Moira Dryer, an undersung progenitor of tough, bullshit resistant, no fucking frills, new wave abstraction — sculptural harmony trapped in the body of an ostensibly minimalist abstract painting.

It's a cardboard box, painted by the abstract painter Franck de Las Mercedes, with a label that says «Handle with care, Fragile, Contains: LOVE».

Two graceful abstract paintings by Gabriela Machado made a good counterpoint to the flexible wooden sculptures by José Bento that could collapse and assume different shapes when handled, forming interesting structures.

The scale of the work, emphatic handling of paint and use of bright colours are testament to the influence of large - scale American abstract expressionist painting, first seen in strength in England in a group exhibition at the Tate in 1956.

They started with an idea, but I would abstract it, and sort of hide behind the dexterity of the paint handling.

It implied that an abstract painting's meaning resided almost entirely on virtuoso paint handling and will always be secondary to and always refer back to representational painting.

The other works in the exhibition, by Hans Hofmann, Milton Avery, Robert Motherwell, and Paul Resika are abstracted to varying degrees through expressive paint handling, bold color, simplified shapes, and other techniques.

Like so many abstract painters of today, including the omnipresent Brice Marden and monastic Jake Berthot, Jensen seems to have a deep fascination with Eastern culture, where at least a philosophical stance and an approach towards the handling of paint — the tension between freedom and control — are still seamlessly unified.