Sentences with phrase «bold figurative expressionism»

As a young painter coming into art in the early 1960s, Georg Baselitz (born 1938) was swift to reject the gestural abstraction that had dominated European and American painting since the end of World War Two, embracing instead a bold figurative expressionism.

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Bold colors and extreme painterly expressionism turn Ms. Rubenstein's figurative elements into near abstraction.

Influenced by Cubism, he created a vocabulary of interlocking shapes and bold, sweeping gestures that served as a transition between his early figurative expressionism and his later abstract constructivist concerns.