Sentences with phrase «approaches to paint handling»
Freight + Volume is pleased to present All U Can Eat, an exhibition of recent paintings by Jennifer Coates that depict processed foods as devotional icons, using food as a vehicle to explore a variety of approaches to paint handling: from dense, detailed fields of marks and patterns to expressionist gesture and spills, familiar foods assert their physicality and transcendent radiance.
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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.
Not exact matches
It is as if his laborious and thoughtful approach to painting is a way of testing the canvas surface to see how much it can handle.
Grimes writes: «Although Ms. Freilicher... studied with Hans Hofmann, the influential teacher and theorist of abstraction, she put her expressionist style of paint - handling and all - over approach to the canvas at the service of recognizable images, a course that made her an outsider in an era dominated by abstraction.
They evolved a realistic approach to painting through an increasingly rapid painterly handling which foreshadows some of the techniques adopted by the Die Brucke group.
Although Ms. Freilicher (pronounced FRY - licker) studied with Hans Hofmann, the influential teacher and theorist of abstraction, she put her expressionist style of paint - handling and allover approach to the canvas at the service of recognizable images, a course that made her an outsider in an era dominated by abstraction.
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.