Sentences with phrase «bravura technique»

In fact, it's an identical feeling — gratuitous bravura technique, no content; painting about nothing; academicism disguised by flash surface.

William Merritt Chase, (born Nov. 1, 1849, Williamsburg [now Nineveh], Ind., U.S. — died Oct. 25, 1916, New York, N.Y.), painter and teacher, who helped establish the fresh colour and bravura technique of much early 20th - century American painting.

William Merritt Chase, painter and teacher, who helped establish the fresh colour and bravura technique of much early 20th - century American painting.

Not exact matches

Blowing up the transfer technique of that series (originally, soaking the magazine images in lighter fluid and rubbing them on paper with an empty ballpoint pen) to collect semi-transparent pictures, he then, with the bravura only he could muster (his friend and studio mate Jasper Johns was so much tighter) angled, swirled and layered them in symphonic pageants for which the term collage seems wholly inadequate even if it is technically right.

Like her colleagues Mr. Gordon, Steve Paxton and Yvonne Rainer, she made dances that eliminated bravura, academic technique, acting and musicality — the hallmarks of modern dance as it had been developed by Martha Graham and others, not to mention ballet.

Guston's painting is lumpen, ugly, funny, full of pathos, and as full of doubt as Labille - Guiard's is full of confidence (and bravura painting technique) but is equally as chock full of information about the artist and their position in the world.