Sentences with phrase «brushstrokes become»

Just as a quickly drawn line becomes an architectural form in Fischer's installation, gestural brushstrokes become animate in his recent paintings, which also play with space and scale.

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.»

In subsequent years his brushstrokes became larger, he painted nature and made use of toys he described as «archetypes of the human figure».

[10] Around this time, Colescott's style changed: his brushstrokes became more gestural; his colors brighter and more intense; his compositions increasingly reminiscent of collage; and his figures even more greatly caricatured.

For the other paintings in the show, it was a matter of this mass of brushstrokes becoming figures becoming mountains becoming painting again.

«The brushstroke becomes a stand - in for its physical process,» she says.

When the plate was etched and printed, the white ground brushstrokes became negative open space.

Her brushstrokes became short and stout, electrified, and almost vibrational.

In the late 1940s, as Morandi's brushstroke became washier, freer, and more pronounced, I thought about the sense of touch in Philip Guston's late figurative work.

Seen together, gradations of color and brushstroke become visible, and a sense of motion and static in the pictures manifests.

The brushstroke becomes a language for the artist to use as a signifier for the act and physicality of painting.

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We absorb them, become familiar with their «messy» brushstrokes, and recoil at the process of their creation, involving a mixture of homemade oil coloring, pencil shavings and the artist's own spit.

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.

The brushstrokes of the green leaves that seemingly float amidst the flowers over the black background reveal the print's painterly origins, and is among the artist's recent and large screenprints that have become increasingly popular.

Indeed, his earlier Minimalism [more] became baroque, marked by curving forms, Day - Glo colors, and scrawled brushstrokes.

In Lee Ufan's painting, the artist creates rows of consecutive blue brushstrokes that become lines of movement and emphasize the physical encounter between brush and paper, the tone becoming lighter as the paint in the brush is used up.

However, while the popular trend was towards the masculine gestural brushstroke, Martin honed her practice to become more reductive, methodical, and geometric.

In the book accompanying «Painting Paintings,» Reed recounts how he became dissatisfied with this particular canvas, which his «friends, colleagues, supporters» urged him to have removed from the show in favor of a different Brushstroke painting, and how he destroyed it after it came back from the Whitney, a decision he regrets because he now thinks that it may have been his «strongest statement» from that time.

And in the 1970's, his style became more fluid and contemplative, as can be seen in the work... Whose Name Was Written in Water (1975), in which the use of paint diluted with oil yielded longer and more gestural brushstrokes.

Cubism influenced Ippolito's early work, but eased by his progressively spontaneous brushstrokes, his early abstractions drew from natural landscapes with a profoundly atmospheric air of color which gradually became his trademark.

In the 1980s his work became less figurative, and his vibrant colour palette and intense brushstrokes laid the groundwork for the completely abstracted works that followed.

Brushstrokes can separate from the field to become subject matter, too.

The brushstrokes and emotional gestures become things that I recognize.

The canvas is a masterful example of the gestural abstraction for which Mitchell has become so rightly famous; composed of passages of delicate brushstrokes juxtaposed with anamorphous blocks made up of alternating light and dark tones, Blueberry provides a matchless example of Mitchell's ability to bring together seemingly incongruous elements into one harmonious piece.

While Kahn's paintings maintained his characteristically deft balance of color, planes in his work began to smooth, brushstrokes elongated and softened, and forms became simpler.

Each painting is begun in abstract until, floating in the brushstrokes, «I find something to grasp onto and it eventually becomes figures.»

Since that time, Osborne's paintings have become bolder and increasingly veer towards painterly abstraction as her sweeping brushstrokes now create the structure of the canvases.

For him, that brushstroke had become cliche, sort of like a comic,» Zabel says.

Elizabeth Osborne's paintings have become more radically abstract in the last decade, but one can trace the thick, elongated brushstrokes back to the views of Arizona, Maine, and Maryland from the late 1990s and early 2000s.

His art has become more concise and suggestive, not only in the brushstrokes that reflect the dexterity of a master painter but in the metaphors of his brilliant themes.

Each layer and strip of plastic acts as brushstroke and field, trapping and asphyxiating the following layer, that in turn becomes trapped itself.

In this painting, the colors and textures in a field of wild grasses are transformed into new shapes and brushstrokes, which subsequently undergo experimental development, taking on new visual meaning, in what then becomes the painting.

Indeed, his earlier Minimalism became baroque, marked by curving forms, DayGlo colors, and scrawled brushstrokes.

But by the late 1960s, Whitten had grown «tired of [abstract expressionism's] rhetoric of heroic self - expression... In his painting, his brushstrokes had become habitual, complacent.»

In the last show of the year, titled «Becoming,» we were treated to fanciful endeavors of the canvas, from big heaps of brushstrokes in Deborah Brown's historical references to Gregory Curry's sci - fi pejoratives and spilling of delicious colors.

They painted the effects of outdoor light using blended colors and rapid brushstrokes, the art style that later became known as Impressionism.

Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer and Julian Schnabel employed thickly applied paint, gestural brushstrokes and emotive subject matter in a style which would later become known as Neo Expressionism.

The stripes are sometimes narrow and sometimes wide, are sometimes applied flatly and at other times with a clearly perceptible brushstroke — his abstract compositions become concentrated into optical border hoppers or expand our gaze to encompass almost landscape - like associations.

Take Fuck Painting # 7, in which coitus becomes reduced to a (sexual, or perhaps entirely platonic) mingling of brushstrokes, a fact that is only intensified as a result of the hazy, atmospheric airbrush technique.

The brushstrokes of a smaller canvas must fit a new show — the work becomes more abstract, the light expands even further, overexposing the images even more.

The latest installment at Centre Pompidou Metz seeks to be the sum of the artist's early meditation on painting, where the surface of the canvas is intuited to become a mirror that wraps identity, space and time; and where brushstrokes are destined to dematerialize into a splitting of light.

With scruffy brushstrokes suggesting bristles of hair, Jukkala's paired ovals become rudimentary faces.

Part of it is the Fakires piece, where letters become pictorial elements immersed in expressive flows of a richer color palette and brushstrokes, underlined by intense black lining.

Aesthetically, she wants the painting to look as if it «just happened» and paints in such a way that the brushstrokes disappear and the layers become imperceptible.

A common thread among these oil paintings is Dzubas's grand gestural brushstrokes, which prominently transform throughout Dzubas's career, becoming an undeniable signature of Dzubas's works.

Through the contrast of the focused object and passing landscape, Sachs» pieces levitate between abstraction and reality, photography and painting, the latter suggested by the blurry quality of the landscape that, as if applied by lavish brushstrokes, becomes painterly.

Brushstrokes — whether in color or black ink — become abstract image fields in which foreground and background are in constant flux.

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.