Sentences with phrase «brushstrokes as»

After the 1960s, Lichtenstein's works began to include still lifes and landscapes, and they were a dramatic departure from his earlier style in their use of brushstrokes as well as in their subject matter.

Indeed, Lichtenstein began doing just such parodies of brushstrokes as early as 1965, and continued to do so throughout the remainder of his career.

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.

The heavily - mixed oil layers are thick, so one can follow the brushstrokes as they catch the light.

Remember to keep this fairly thin, so we can carry on working over this layer, and use as few brushstrokes as possible.

In this case, director Bill Condon (who is literally one hump away from having a terribly awkward surname) mismatches the talented Cumberbatch and Brühl with a lifeless script that gives only broad brushstrokes as to who the man behind WikiLeaks is; you could get the same information by checking him out on Wikipedia.

No doubt when Gordon Brown selected Sir Thomas, 74, to conduct an audit of MPs» expenses since 2004, he was hoping for something in the same whitewash brushstrokes as his earlier inquiry into the arms to Sierra Leone affair, which was an exquisite example of the British «nothing - to - see - here» school.

The painter Catherine Murphy has described the mid-century brushstroke as a macho imperative she chose to reject.

His personal style was certainly less grandly expressionistic than that of many of his fellow abstractionists, yet he still viewed the brushstroke as essentially autographic — a trace of the soul of the artist.

He approaches this topic in a different way in Woman, 1981, and his Brushstroke Head sculptures from 1987 by treating the shape of a brushstroke as an abstract image in its own right, which he then uses to compose the face and body of a woman.

More personal and less satirical, they still blow up a brushstroke as if on a slide.

With the brushstroke as the artist's signature, here the acrylic sheets form the point of departure for a larger installational whole framed by a raised gangway along the walls of the exhibition space from which the audience can look at the work from above.

He calls his show «Imminent Danger,» and he wants you to feel every brushstroke as a cut.

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.

Support, understood in its widest brushstroke as the «second position,» is tested, fatigued, and reified; we try to broaden forms of abstract support that sustain the practice of the artist and the body of the artist, as well as wider culture economies.

Not exact matches

Bell's brushstrokes are broad, but I fear (being one of those «liberal clergy») that the picture he paints is all too real, at least as it obtains in the academic world.

-- As mentioned, this is a rather broad - brushstrokes perspective.

And yet, much as candid cables from overseas embassies, the morsels like that odd, conversationless phone call that turned up in the 53 - page federal complaint, if true, added colorful new brushstrokes to the public's understanding of how this otherworld of New York politics really worked — or, short of that, how corruption was committed.

The infants also showed more engagement with the paintbrush during the medium - velocity brushstrokes, as measured by how long and how often they looked at the brush while they were being stroked.

The researchers identified the pigments used by the artists and the order the paints were applied and to which regions, as well as sources of materials and the style of brushstrokes used.

I actually first tried dip dying pumpkins (craft fail) and painting them with a brushstrokes patter (somewhat craft fail) as well as a few other ideas before I tried this one.

It is produced as a artistic masterpiece with with each episode being a brushstroke of complex and compelling storyline all amassing to that final episode where everything comes together and you get the magnificent payoff of all of the long hours you have put into the show.

It is produced as a artistic masterpiece with with each episode being a brushstroke of complex and compelling storyline all amassing to that final episode where everything comes together and you get the

The director even goes so far as to incorporate imagery cues from the superhero genre (the Superman parallels are hard to miss) and on the whole, the movie has hints of a director who can do some fun things with a big canvas - even if he stills needs some practice with the brushstrokes.

With the wandering artist Issun as your helpful guide, you must wield the Celestial Brush and use different brushstrokes to create miracles to defeat enemies and solve puzzles.

Suddenly the colors and structures merge, as if led by firm, purposeful brushstrokes.

The film's animation alternates between black - and - white flashbacks and present - day color sequences to recreate some of Van Gogh's most famous canvases, going so far as to emulate the Dutch painter's groundbreaking thick - brushstroke impasto style.

Rather than having recognizable supporting players like Jeffrey Wright (as photographer Howard Bingham), Ron Silver (as trainer Angelo Dundee), Paul Rodriguez (as boxing physician Bernie Pacheco), Joe Morton (as lawyer Chauncey Estridge) and Mykelti Williamson (as promoter Don King) give their real - life counterparts spotlight moments of revelatory dialogue and defining characterization, they're flattened and wound as finely engineered brushstrokes winding around the enigmatic center.

As you get immersed in the world of Loving Vincent you quickly realize that it is not the shiny technique alone that makes you feel as though you were floating inside Vincent van Gogh's brushstrokes, but that, as happens with his painting, there is a profound love for the subject driving each and every frame.As you get immersed in the world of Loving Vincent you quickly realize that it is not the shiny technique alone that makes you feel as though you were floating inside Vincent van Gogh's brushstrokes, but that, as happens with his painting, there is a profound love for the subject driving each and every frame.as though you were floating inside Vincent van Gogh's brushstrokes, but that, as happens with his painting, there is a profound love for the subject driving each and every frame.as happens with his painting, there is a profound love for the subject driving each and every frame...

Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, and Tuva Novotny join Portman to make up this awesome and mostly - well - utilized squad of smart, capable women but as much as Annihilation involves its audience with characters, the heady themes and visual brushstrokes often take precedence.

As with the original, players will draw brushstrokes on screen with the Celestial Brush to battle opponents or solve puzzles.

«Subtle accents of these colours adorn interior aspects of each Dawn, whilst the «Silent Ballet» of the roof as it rises to provide shelter from the paparazzo's lens unleashes a brushstroke of colour to catch the style - spotter's eye,» says the press release.

As in the earlier title, simple brushstrokes convey a wide range of emotions.

The novel is visual to a painterly degree; events move carefully and slowly and simply, the sentences precise and deft as brushstrokes: «The beam of the lighthouse swept across the harbor.

Just as a painter may utilize thousands of fine brushstrokes, Smith slowly creates a masterly, multilayered story that will dazzle readers of fine historical fiction.»

As she commits scenes, colors, even brushstrokes to memory, the paintings come alive.

Inspired by such events as the flight of Apollo 12, she creates a forceful mosaic effect with her placement of wide brushstrokes in highly saturated colors.

With ample amounts of blue and white and feathered brushstrokes that create dazzling light as well as reflections on the rippling water, four river views by Caillebotte from the 1880s and «90s make you want to board one of his sailboats and feel the sun on your face and the wind in your hair.

Sultan writes that Brown's show «was a lesson to me in slowing down, looking carefully, and being open to new work... As I looked, I became entranced by the welter of brushstrokes; their layering is full of life and delicate energy.

Thus People (2000), 91 by 54 inches, for instance, shifts from reading as a loose net of brushstrokes to a depiction of dozens of human figures linked by their outstretched arms and legs.

New Work will pick up where that exhibition left off, as Semmel continues to capture, with bold brushstrokes, her own aging body as she sees it, from above and mirrored, in constantly shifting images.

Selections from the CIBA Art Collection, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, City University of New York (September 13 — October 29) Abstract Works on Paper, Robert Miller Gallery, New York (July 19 — August 26) Drawings, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas (June 16 — July 23) Romantic Modernism, 100 Years, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe (June 4 — July 31) Reclaiming Artists of the New York School: Toward a More Inclusive View of the 1950s, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, City University of New York (March 18 — April 22) Recent Drawings Acquisitions: A Selection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (March 7 — May 18) The Brushstroke and Its Guises, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, New York (March 7 — April 16) The Shaman as Artist / The Artist as Shaman, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (February 10 — April 10) Group exhibition, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles (January 22 — February 26)

Ms. Passlof's canvases are distinguished by the primacy of the brushstroke: they were sometimes so thickly worked in oils that reviewers commended their smell as well as their visual aspects.

The painting could be read as twist on the idiom «breeding like rabbits,» fusing innocence, eroticism, humor, and death through the artist's frenetic brushstrokes.

will pick up where that exhibition left off, as Semmel continues to capture, with bold brushstrokes, her own aging body as she sees it, from above and mirrored, in constantly shifting images.

Lee Ufan makes his own minimal gesture on an opposite surface, his multi-layered brushstroke serving as a mark of time and place, while a new suite of paintings by Stanley Whitney completes this more lyrical, meditative and philosophical section of the show.

As an abstract expressionist, West often used hard edged and bold brushstrokes in her paintings.

In the exhibition's catalogue Bernice Rose states: «Chamberlain's is a radical step in this [modernism's] history: the translation of de Kooning's inherently sculptural continued... brushstroke from a soft material used for the creation of visual illusions and illusionary spaces into a hard, thin, and three - dimensional substance that could be considered as a support for those illusions.»

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.

So although American viewers will reflexively relate the streaming brushstrokes in her paintings to New York School painting, or to the work of an American closer to her in age, such as David Reed, she may feel just as much affinity for European practitioners of improvisational painting such as Pierre Soulages, Howard Hodgkin or even Gerhard Richter.