Sentences with phrase «bravura brushwork»

Dzubas would never completely eliminate such bravura brushwork, which would come to define his future paintings to extraordinary effect.»

While fellow artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning created high drama with drips and bravura brushwork on billboard - size canvases, Mr. Seliger conjured up his own private worlds on canvases, and later Masonite boards, that rarely exceeded the dimensions of a cafeteria tray.

Pop artists made something of a habit of lampooning the bravura brushwork of this previous generation, parodying their lofty aspirations to achieve authentic and unique artistic expression through the liberating excess of their painterly marks.

For instance, he frequently alluded to Old Masters including Frans Hals, Anthony van Dyck, and Diego Velázquez in his compositions, but often updated these artistic references through the use of bravura brushwork or subdued tonal washes.

Immendorff (1945 - 2007) lacked the inventiveness of his countryman Sigmar Polke, or Anselm Kiefer's sense of theater, but he compensated with suave sendups of bravura brushwork and history painting imbued with sardonic commentary.

Unlike his cohorts, he did not adopt Frankenthaler's «staining» of unprimed canvases with poured color or employ acrylics but, like them, he considered expansive fields of color ample content, emphasized two - dimensionality in his work and eliminated bravura brushwork.

Not exact matches

The hastier brushwork fits with portraiture from the time, like that of Alice Neel, but with muter colors and an absence of bravura.

Since the late 1980s, he has made deadpan, at times dour paintings that embrace politics as their subject matter, while tending toward compact brushwork and scales of gray rather than flashy colors and bravura expression.