Her abstract painterly techniques and figurative glyphs are well married and suggest a personal dialogue with other artists and art history; I happened to think of such different painters as Lois Lane, Gael Stack, Charles Marburg, and Clint Jukkala.
Not exact matches
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.
Painters & Photographers presents
painterly themes and
techniques in recent
abstract photography.
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).
Working on the ridges — and at times on surfaces mounted behind them — Polke deploys an indescribable abundance of figurative and
abstract imagery and
painterly techniques.
The completed works are
painterly, evoking three - dimensional manifestations of 1950s
abstract Color Field canvases, and direct, recalling the simple forms and
techniques of 1960s Minimalists.
«By coupling the symbols and phrases most closely associated with the African American story with the
abstract expressionist
painterly technique in the multi-panel format, Jean - Michel Basquiat created an exceptional masterpiece of history painting.»
His
technique, while extremely ordered and focused on the particular, yields surprisingly rich
painterly passages — surprising in the sense that these dynamic images of contact and speed from the worlds of sport and chaos break down into mosaics of small, beautifully incandescent
abstract paintings, where foreground and background co-exist on the same plane.
Acclaimed for his
painterly touch, Johns based his
technique on the informal brushwork and texture of
abstract expressionism, sometimes attaching literal elements such as rulers and brooms to the canvas.
In Swamped, Doig's intricate and seamlessly woven tapestry of process - based and
abstract techniques creates a special friction between figurative atmosphere, and dense
abstract and
painterly meaning.
These latest works, his most
painterly and expressionistic, demonstrate just how much a convincing
technique counts in
abstract painting.