Not exact matches
Joanne is certainly one of my favorite
artists on here and learning to use
brushy is very fun... she makes it look so easy.
These
artists use the gesture in a rapid and
brushy manner to draw, evoke movement and direction or make a bold and declarative statement, either purely nonrepresentational or in figuration.
Wide,
brushy passages of thinned - down enamel are applied in back - and - forth strokes that linger with the touch of the
artist's hand.
The other
artists tend to assert superficially Soutine - ish qualities like thick and
brushy paint or, as in the Louise Bourgeois sculpture, the slaughtered animal subject matter.
Johns's well - known flag paintings, which he began making in the mid-1950s, use the
brushy paint application common to Abstract Expressionist painters of that time, sometimes layered over collaged newspaper clippings, simultaneously affirming and negating the hand of the
artist.
Abstract art, especially of a Minimalist mien, is on the uptick right now, with a few too many young
artists acting as if they have invented the wheel, especially where
brushy or severely simplified monochromes are concerned.
There are works by classic Minimal and Conceptual
artists — a 1962 poem typed out by Carl Andre, a
brushy black 1991 Sol LeWitt gouache, a little silver cube from 1967 by Robert Barry hung from the ceiling in the exact center of Minus's main gallery.
Focusing primarily on solo presentations of
artists, as in one
artist per space, the show is well - curated with more than one canny juxtaposition (two personal favorites were Leigh Ledare's 16 mm film Vokzal [2016] of the public around three Moscow train stations with John Divola's elegant «Abandoned Paintings» [2007 — 8] photos, which feature recuperated discarded student paintings in derelict domestic settings, and Henry Taylor's big
brushy paintings of black communities next to Deana Lawson's elaborately staged, intimate portraits of black subjects).
And it's in her
brushy, fragmented renderings of nature - often seen reflected in rectangular window panes - that Ms. Dodd also reminds us that she came of age as an
artist in the era of Abstract Expressionism.
During a walkthrough the show, he mentioned AbEx greats Franz Kline (
brushy, hands - on) and Jackson Pollock (drizzly, hands - off) practically in the same breath — and elements of both recur here, like the wide - brush action on Date, and substitute dripped paint for spray - paint like in Autocorrect, two ways of recording the
artist's «hand» and progress.
This composition is rather similar to Gottlieb's Bursts (1957 — 74), except the irregular,
brushy forms across the bottom of Gottlieb's paintings are more nuanced and indicative of the
artist's presence and feeling.