Some have the clarity and borders of
brushstrokes in later works while most others lack the restraints he went on to develop.
Not exact matches
This display of
late works includes a series of busy Nocturnes cloaked
in shadow (up close, you can see traces of colourful
brushstrokes that have been obscured by black overpaint), as well as his powerful final
work, Death of a Poet.
During last year's Venice Biennale, the Gallerie dell» Accademia's Philip Guston and the Poets reduced five modernist masters to simplified, and not always accurate, thematic
brushstrokes, resulting
in a show that was best enjoyed as a straight survey of Guston's fantastic
late works.
Avery insisted on a rigorous study of his subject, and most of these mature
works were the result of sketches or drawings made with color notations,
later enlarged and simplified into watercolor or oil crayon and finally translated to oil applied
in luminous, thin washes of closely valued colors overlaid with swiftly applied expressionist
brushstrokes.
Resnick continued to
work in an abstract style until the
late 1980s, when he started creating a series of gouaches featuring simplified human forms suspended
in a field of
brushstrokes and color.
Installed chronologically, the exhibition will demonstrate how Lichtenstein's
works from the
late 1950s prefigure his use of
brushstroke imagery
in the
later works.
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 wor
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 wor
in Philip Guston's
late figurative
work.
Even his
later works, painted by brush, recall the same energy
in their expressive use of color and seemingly infinite number of frenetic
brushstrokes.
The rugged forms and bravado
brushstrokes are imbued with figurative possibilities, and the limited palette of gray black, salmon pink and verdant green have a prescient power,
later revealed
in Guston's final and explosive figurative
works.
While Mitchell's
brushstrokes coalesced into all - over compositions
in the
late 1970s and early 1980s,
in works such as the present one they animate the surface akin to torquing waves.
Jill Moser recapitulates the effect 57 years
later in Mirroring Mist (2014), while Meyer's tempering of her gestural impetuosity with discreetly and carefully modulated shapes and
brushstrokes links Mitchell's
work with the hard - edge strictures followed by Westfall and others near the opposite end of the abstraction continuum.