Sentences with phrase «as bold strokes»

Brodhead is best - known for her mid-20th century abstract works, but as Bold Strokes demonstrates, she was adept at painting figures and landscapes as well... [Brodhead] studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1919 — 25, spent time painting in Paris at the Académie Julian, and left PAFA in 1925 to study under her mentor Arthur B. Carles.

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It's also the kind of bold policy stroke that would command national attention, with Cuomo potentially starring as the governor who triggered the removal of a whole cohort of aging highways that blighted central cities for 60 years.

Yes, there are arguably a few bars too many on the way to the World's End, not just for the characters but for viewers as well, as the film lags a bit before arriving late at two bold storytelling strokes.

by Walter Chaw A deep cut for Star Wars fanatics, Gareth Edwards's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story also happens to be the single most topical fiction of 2016, talking as it does — in bold, melodramatic strokes befitting a space opera — about the importance of rebellion in the face of fascism.

With the daft assurance of his earlier work and the bold strokes of his recent, «Small Time Crooks» emerges as the perfect Woody Allen film for the new millennium.

The social metaphor is as bold as the title suggests, but the drama is painted in muted, human tones and detailed strokes of pain.

Terrin says his style has been referred to as «modern pointillism»: bold strokes that appear abstract when viewed up close and come into focus only when the viewer steps away from the canvas.

Deborah Chlebek from Yellow Springs, an Adjunct Instructor and graduate of Wright State University, has simplified her message with bold dark strokes in such pieces as «Ellis 96» and increased atmospherics in «Ellis 97» (both 2011).

The dynamism, the bold strokes, the vivid colors even stark black and white paintings all reflect my perspective of life as complex, intense, raw.

The exhibition presents Schnabel's five - part series Untitled (Series on Melancholia) from 1989, in which he employed the found material of tarpaulin as his canvas, and used bold, gestural white strokes to create monumental abstractions.

A few colorful highlights worth a closer look include the feather - light finger exercise No. 2526 (especially the racing matte black vertical strokes that alternate with bold orange bars) and the paler, lighter black strokes bookending No. 941, pure cursive plays on stage - like geometry backed by an abstract version of what could be a theater set by Raoul Dufy (including Dufy's aqua as a border).

Bold strokes and abstract impressions meet with a thoughfully prepared surface as I attempt to share an intimate story with my audience.

From September 1959 to January 1960 de Kooning sojourned in Italy, working in Rome, where he produced what are now known as his «black and white» paintings, such as Black and White (Rome) 1959 (fig. 6).24 These are highly reminiscent of Kline's signature style in their combination of bold gestural abstraction, a black and white palette and structured compositions that consist of a series of emphatic strokes that are at odds with each other and positioned at angles that create nearly regular geometric shapes, such as triangles and squares.

In many of his paintings, organic - looking forms are hemmed in by rigid geomtric planes of color; thick, bold gestural strokes serve loosely as both directional signposts and visual barriers.

Rendered with oil in a bold painterly manner, the brush strokes feels sensual in its expressive texture and feature a color palette that is as unselfconscious as the women he portrays.

Deeply rooted in post-modernism, social activism and political commentary, the bold strokes, natural palette, and compositional balance of Smith's works define her as one of the most iconic artistic voices of the twentieth century.

Additionally, Red Paintings included enhanced textures created by paint application processes — such as drips, spatters, washes and bold horizontal strokes.

The United States has invested tens of billions of dollars in clean energy projects as our leaders try to save our crumbling economy and our poisoned planet in one bold, green stroke.

Dash is descriptive: it's a bold stroke of punctuation, which can hive things off from each other as well as connect otherwise disparate elements..