Sentences with phrase «bold painterly gestures»

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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.

The bold pigments are not mixed, and different layers of hues react with one another to create inconsistencies that themselves become the attestations of painterly gesture.