Sentences with phrase «bravura expression»

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.

The brushstroke is not posited as a bravura expression of the painter's subjectivity; it's an element in the overall construction of space.9

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A lushly produced epic about the harsh realities of creative expression, featuring bravura performances and Oscar - winning costume design and makeup, Topsy - Turvy is an unexpected period delight from one of contemporary cinema's great artists.

In his words, «sidestepping the sentimentality or bravura of pure expression associated with abstraction in Modern painting, [Andrea Medjesi - Jones] retains something of the quest to register external events in their mediated form, in a bold and satisfying way.

With Cage driving the car, Rauschenberg's only «hand» in the making of the tire print was conceptualizing and directing the work — and pouring the paint in the street.27 Thus the work precludes any expression of individualism or artistic bravura, while also unseating the idea of the artist as lone wolf.

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.