Sentences with phrase «between painterly gesture»

The smaller pieces strike a softer balance between the painterly gesture and the selected narrative.

Her small, luminously pale pictures of the ocean meeting sand (at 303 Gallery) adroitly play with tension between painterly gesture and illusory image.

Not exact matches

The German artist, who famously uses a spraygun to extend her painterly gesture to an architectural scale, has included three trees — roots and all — atop an uneven surface of canvas and dirt to blur the distinction between museum and park.

The strongest works in Frankfort's show push the tension between verbal language and painterly gesture to an extreme.

Her painterly gesture and her understanding of the volatile dialogue between brush and paint are easily and readily translated onto the canvas through her composition and form.

Oscillating between two separate works, Thomas's painted homage to Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech of Black female empowerment, «Ain't I a Woman,» and a religious altarpiece, Diptych presents the sexy, Black female body sculpted out of flat planes of primary colors in two dimensions on the left (a gesture reminiscent of the painterly techniques of her idols Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden), and in a televised two dimensions on the right.

Hofmann made works of astonishing variety, crossing the boundaries between allusion and invention, reference and abstraction, in paintings ranging from the broadly invoked interiors, still lifes, and landscapes of his first American years, to eerie surrealizing «creatures,» minimal geometric abstractions, and finally, the bold confrontations of pulsating rectangles of thick paint — the acclaimed «Slabs» — and the orchestrations of free - floating, varied painterly gestures that characterized his last years.

Between them, the works study the major abstract Modern movements on the 20th century, geometric abstraction, painterly gesture and the elements of human imperfection which can find expression in artwork.

Pairing a figurative style with self - generated imagery and formal composition appropriated from her photographic practice, Cedar's paintings combine painterly gestures with articulated surfaces, oblique perspective shifts with flatness — the scenes wavering between depiction, memory, and fantasy.

On the third floor, Colen's investigation of painterly gestures and his ongoing navigation between abstraction and representation culminate in the Purgatory paintings.

Grounded in painterly gesture, Cunat's interplay between two - dimensional and three - dimensional forms innovatively warp scale and perception.

Created between 1997 and 2008, in the wake of the artist's original black - and - white «computer» paintings and concurrently with the brilliantly colorful «switch» paintings — two series that utilized digital tools in their creation — the gray paintings hone in on painterly gesture and material essence.

His colorful geometric patterns play with the unique curves, undulations, and knots of the wood's surface, resulting in an unexpected conversation between organic form and painterly gesture.

What's more, the equation of Milhazes and Kahlo elides the readily apparent stylistic differences between the latter, a self - mythologizing diarist, and the former, a discreetly Matissean sensualist so disengaged from self - reference that she cloaks even the traces of her own painterly gesture.

Most of all, however, Lassnig was inspired by the painterly gesture of abstract expressionism and art informel, with a focus on the connection between artist and canvas during the process of painting, writing in 1951: «The rhythm of painting should be like that of breathing when life is in the act of choking us.»