Sentences with phrase «abstract painterly gestures»

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Cinematic Visions examines how, through a variety of painterly strategies and gestures, figuration starts to break down and, conversely, how a residual figurative substratum can be found in even the most apparently abstract image.

Highlighting better - known names — Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell — alongside lesser - known ones — Sonia Gechtoff, Perle Fine — the exhibition will encompass 12 women's work, «focus [ing] on the expressive freedom of direct gesture and process at the core of abstract expressionism, while revealing inward reverie and painterly expression,» according to the description.

Women of Abstract Expressionism will focus on the expressive freedom of direct gesture and process at the core of abstract expressionism, while revealing inward reverie and painterly expression in these works by individuals responding to particular places, memories, and life experiences.

The «Ten Possible Links» are a series of subtly vibrant and densely layered paintings that investigate the abstract imagery of Ritchie's sculpture and cinematic landscapes through multiple diagrammatic and painterly gestures.

The DAM's exhibition focuses on the expressive freedom of direct gesture and process at the core of abstract expressionism, while revealing inward reverie and painterly expression in these works by individuals responding to particular places, memories and life experiences.

This gesture represented a clear reworking of aspects of the abstract expressionist painterly vocabulary7 and also emphasized his interest in both the texture of the canvas and its structural mediation through the everyday materiality of a disposable item.

Between them, the works study the major abstract Modern movements on the 20th century, geometric abstraction, painterly gesture and the elements of human imperfection which can find expression in artwork.

Tuanus (2000) has the scale of a history painting, the painterly gestures, blobs, patches and scrapes of impressionism, expressionism and American abstract expressionism and the graphic effects of screenprinting and technicolour — a sumptuous surface that belies the work's apparent subject: a drugs raid in central Frankfurt.

The DAM's exhibition focuses on the expressive freedom of direct gesture and process at the core of abstract expressionism, while revealing inward reverie and painterly expression in these works [as they respond -RCB- to particular places, memories, and life experiences.

Indeed, her technique is so refined that it is impossible to identify the brushstrokes or painterly marks that have often been regarded, in various movements and moments over the past 60 years, as the last romantic gasp of the artist's self — such as in abstract expressionism, for instance, where the gesture was seen as a revelation of ego (usually a male ego).

Known for his paintings Jules has rendered scenes from everyday life, geometric compositions, and abstracted symbols incorporating painterly gestures that show his true alliance with the brush and the process of pushing paint.

The artist liberates the composition from painterly gesture and instils it with a powerful presence; in veiling the tangible object he forms his strikingly simple yet buoyant abstract composition.

Given the basic humanity of geometry, it may come as a surprise to find that many contemporary painters, both figurative and abstract, think plain geometrical figures are chilly, «intellectual,» inhuman things best kept out of art or buried deep beneath lots of colorful, painterly gestures, thrustings and parryings.

The most celebrated of these is known as abstract expressionism — abstract, because most of the new art eschewed all traces of visible reality; expressionism, because it appeared to have been created through uncontrolled and sometimes violent painterly gestures.

Neither abstract nor representational in any orthodox sense, this is no longer a work of passionate subjective statement but a calculated degrading of the painterly gesture into an arbitrary, repeatable cipher.

Most of all, however, Lassnig was inspired by the painterly gesture of abstract expressionism and art informel, with a focus on the connection between artist and canvas during the process of painting, writing in 1951: «The rhythm of painting should be like that of breathing when life is in the act of choking us.»

Women of Abstract Expressionism focuses on the expressive freedom of direct gesture and process at the core of abstract expressionism, while revealing inward reverie and painterly expression in these works by individuals responding to particular places, memories, and life experiences.