Sentences with word «brushstroke»

A brushstroke is a mark made with a brush when painting. It's like a stroke or a swipe with a paintbrush on a canvas. Full definition
Only when examined up close will what appear to be solid color reveal itself as a series of brushstrokes of many colors and hues.
Some have the clarity and borders of brushstrokes in later works while most others lack the restraints he went on to develop.
In Untitled (Alabama), bold gestural brushstrokes of stark white paint coalesce into a procession of figures marching across a black color field.
For more than sixty years, Virginia - born artist Judith Godwin has explored abstract painting, recording motion and gesture with brushstrokes on canvas.
«Grandeur is a hallmark of great Hong Kong action cinema, and KILL ZONE 2 paints in broad brushstrokes of sentiment and sensation through use of sight and sound alike.»
Indian Summer by Hal Mayforth Painting 24.0 x 26.0:: A colorful array of gestural brushstrokes on a loose acrylic background recalling an indian summer day in all it's glory.
The influence of traditional Asian calligraphy can be seen in Motherwell's expressive brushstrokes as well as in the pared - back nature of his compositions.
Gestural brushstrokes painted on Glass create vivid movement while capturing the full stroke of the brush as its settles on the surface of the Glass.
Paintings such as Purple Diagonal (1980) are characterized by the repetition of the main compositional figure in a smaller realist form and palette, and a second in a larger version rendered with expressive brushstrokes in vivid colors.
She was a prolific and versatile painter, writer and teacher whose paintings featured loose and thick brushstrokes made in bold hues and executed in an energetic, improvisational style.
His paintings convey ease in use with the line and range from sketchy renditions of abstracted objects and figures to the bold brushstrokes used in his narrative based scenes.
The biomorphic, hard - edge forms of the 1950s give way, in the 1960s and 1970s, to paintings that blend looser brushstrokes with tighter geometrical masses yet continue McCord's intensely personal, near - architectural exploration of «light and form» — a style she described in 1981 as «a pulsating surface superimposed over a cubist architecture with transparencies, arabesques and rectangular patches.»»
In elegant curves, they follow the bed of the river, like brushstrokes from a bold artist.
It is based on a witty epistolary novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, but is here adapted with some painfully broad brushstrokes into a Frankenstein's monster of populist standards — part Ealing comedy (especially Whisky Galore!)
Develops mature Abstract Expressionist style; spontaneous flame - like brushstrokes defined by grid.
These painterly energetic brushstrokes become symbols for poking fun in abstract expressionism.
This canvas is the most textural and painterly in the series, as Richter used sweeping brushstrokes with the oils he'd become used to in his work.
Ms. Hartigan, a friend and disciple of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, subscribed to the Abstract Expressionist notion of the painterly brushstroke as existential act and cri de coeur but, like de Kooning, she never broke entirely with the figurative tradition.
Gesture through brushstroke is bold, colours are subtle but vibrant and there is a clear process oriented and academic reasoning regarding psychic expression and its abstraction evident on the canvases.
The Golden Age artist was particularly admired for his painterly style, his use of visible brushstrokes in turn inspiring the work of the Abstract Expressionists.
(1961) features grandiose black brushstrokes on white background, with obvious visual affinity to Morita Shirū's graphic lacquered folding screen ``
Norman Lewis's painting America the Beautiful (1960) appears to be a typical mid-twentieth-century abstract, gestural painting, but on closer inspection, the expressive white brushstrokes crystallize into the familiar hoods and crosses of the Ku Klux Klan.
In their own way, these painted brushstrokes become one with the pattern of the fabric, thus the painting can also be read as a parody of abstract painting.»
Her gestural brushstrokes seem at once violent and poetic, capturing the energy and gesture of her signature calligraphic line caught and held in a quiet equilibrium.
Neel's oils are often riled, with thick textured brushstrokes fenced into faces and bodies with black, and later blue, lines.
The townscapes are characterised by often gestural brushwork — loose, wide brushstrokes which apply paint pastosely while leaving other parts of the canvas uncovered.
Short brushstrokes in varying shades of green, ocher and blue give this artwork the spontaneous feel of a plein - air painting.
This seminal work is accompanied by a late drawing of Polke's depicting what appears to be a similar brushstroke at a remarkably enlarged scale, but is actually composed of countless drops of ink on specially prepared paper.
Remember to keep this fairly thin, so we can carry on working over this layer, and use as few brushstrokes as possible.
Whether the canvases are tall and narrow, leaving room only for brushstrokes less than a foot long, or wide enough to permit strokes of more than four feet in length, the number of stacked strokes averages around thirteen or fourteen.
The show brings together a series of works produced by this second - generation abstract expressionist between 1958 and 1975, including canvases saturated with sensuous color and defined by fluid brushstrokes.
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At her very best, Brown's spread - legged females take the Creamsicle colors of de Kooning, expressionist brushstrokes after Jackson Pollock, the confrontation with women in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon or Picasso's portraits and then some.
His dynamic brushstrokes not only tangibly bring life to inanimate canvas they do it with such energy we can also sense and hear them.
A major group of Guston's lush abstractions from the 1950s and 1960s anchor the center of the exhibition with works such as To B.W.T. (1952), Painting (1954), Zone (1953 — 54), Beggar's Joys (1954 — 55) and For M (1955), in which rich, delicately applied brushstrokes come together to suggest floating, abstract forms.
Similarly, the two vividly colored paintings from the 1990s at Cheim & Read (both called «Trees» and dated 1990 - 91) as well as the churning «Cypresses» from 1975 (which, like 1964's «First Cypress,» employs chrome green and black) concentrate more on their own making than on outside indicators, as slashing brushstrokes coagulate into groupings of unstable forms while carving out deep recesses of space.
Through complex brushstrokes which come together in almost abstract painterly gestures, Saville expertly recreates the human figure imbued with life and shocking intensity.
Multiple hues of green and blue brushstrokes swirl around the plant activating the paintings surface and creating a central focal point.
Spending time in Haiti, Karan's bold, painterly brushstroke prints were inspired by the work of the Haitian artist, Philippe Dodar.
Not lines and not brushstrokes with any overly aggressive verve, Hughes's upright shafts of color replace the struggle that you see in so much abstract painting with an exuberance that seems soft and effortless.
Flat, monochrome backgrounds of blue - grey, white and black have been transected by vigorous horizontal brushstrokes running from edge to edge across aluminium and panel supports.
And saturated, primary hues applied in broad brushstrokes evoke Barnett Newman and Willem de Kooning.
Josh Tonsfeldt contributes a sculpture consisting mainly of a flower branch whose leaves and petals vibrate almost silently, thanks to a subwoofer, like a group of sensitive brushstrokes looking for a place to land.
Borne out of Modernist painting as well as «action painting» — a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied — this theme extends to present day, where brushstrokes fade away to innovative mark - making techniques or performance and video.
But shooting quick clips with the familiar Snapchatty Lens feature is easy to do between brushstrokes.
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