Sentences with phrase «abstract painterly quality»

In their abstract painterly quality the latest series explore the intimate and evolving relationship between painting and photography.

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A work like the 2000 photograph I Don't Want to Get Over You perhaps best captures much of his artistic output: Tillmans manipulated a brilliantly lit snapshot of clouds over the sea, with the sun barely breaking through, and the resulting picture is streaked with verdant green ribbons of abstract color, adding a painterly qualities to a technical image.

His abstracted forms and radically innovative compositions have a painterly quality that stands out among the work of his New York School contemporaries.

But the starting - point of these second - generation artists tended to be an appreciation of the painterly quality of the abstract - expressionist brushstroke rather than existential motives of the sort that prompted the work of the artists of the New York School.

The exhibition will explore their shared fascination with light, landscape, the sublime and mythology as well as the painterly qualities of their work, whether as makers of figurative or abstract images.

By replicating their bold, fluid, and gestural brushstrokes by other means and on a smaller scale, one could say the abstract expressionists were making «still lifes» of the painterly qualities that they were working so hard to cultivate on their canvases.