Sentences with phrase «brushwork as»

During this time, Tworkov developed his characteristic loose brushwork as seen in Departure (1951), a work inspired by the theme of Homer's Odyssey.

During this time, Tworkov developed his characteristic loose brushwork as seen in Departure (1952 — 53), a work inspired by the theme of Homer's Odyssey.

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Wander through rooms of eye - catching street art and coves of sometimes - eerie, sometimes - enlightening pop surrealism as you admire the confident brushwork and indie aesthetics of local San Diego artists.

The presentation acts as a step by step guide to painting, and covers skills such as layering tones to create depth, basic modulation and brushwork.

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Additional highlights include Helen Frankenthaler's Belfry and February Turn (both 1979), which mimic the look and feel of Abstract Expressionism yet in truth represent a rupture with that tradition through the use of a staining technique that seemingly minimizes the artist's role in the process; Frank Stella's Double Scramble (1978), whose nested squares, color contrasts, and pulsing optical effects bridge the artist's early minimalism and later illusionism; and Robert Rauschenberg's Golden Chalice (1989) which, insofar as it marries abstraction and representation and juxtaposes gestural brushwork and photographic media, affords a crucial link to late 20th - century abstraction.

Mitchell used gestural, sometimes violent brushwork, and described her paintings as «an organism that turns in space.»

In Chestnut (1955), the painting's white field is broken along the center, as if a chestnut tree were pushing through the pigment; and in Red, blue, black (1957), the thick, dark red ground gives way at the center to black calligraphed lines concentrated within dense gestural brushwork.

As disparate as the artistic approaches appear to be in Rothko to Richter, what united the painters throughout the period was a commitment to process, as artists explored a range of brushwork techniques, from audaciously gestural ribbons of built - up paint to vibrating fields and soft washes of color to hard - edged geometrieAs disparate as the artistic approaches appear to be in Rothko to Richter, what united the painters throughout the period was a commitment to process, as artists explored a range of brushwork techniques, from audaciously gestural ribbons of built - up paint to vibrating fields and soft washes of color to hard - edged geometrieas the artistic approaches appear to be in Rothko to Richter, what united the painters throughout the period was a commitment to process, as artists explored a range of brushwork techniques, from audaciously gestural ribbons of built - up paint to vibrating fields and soft washes of color to hard - edged geometrieas artists explored a range of brushwork techniques, from audaciously gestural ribbons of built - up paint to vibrating fields and soft washes of color to hard - edged geometries.

They also move easily between abstraction and representation, as with Calame's organic structures, but also in representing brushwork with or without a brush.

Though her formal means have shifted since her earlier show — less brushwork in favor of floods of poured paint — Saccoccio's paintings remain just as vital.

Their brushwork is evidence of responding to quickly changing light, weather as well as changing mood and pictorial necessity; where broad handling, quick decisions and emotional summations are imperative.

Krasner comes across as the more restless of the two painters, moving from the flat, interlocked shapes of «Lavender» (1942) to the dense, peaked brushwork of «Noon» (1947); Lewis seems to hit on his mature scuffed - and - scumbled style without much deliberation.

Joan Brown (1938 - 1990) was a prodigy in the «Bay Area Figurative style,» and «Portrait of a Chair» (1958), which serves as a kind of frontispiece to this exhibition, is a stunning example of someone mastering scale, composition, color and hell - for - leather brushwork at the tender age of 19.

Over the course of a thirty - year career Doug Argue's paintings are best described as palimpsests — layers of radiant brushwork and scrims of crisp stenciled letters envelope the entire canvas to suggest the passage of time, light, motion, and how the past informs the present.

Now two shows hope to catch them in the act, and it turns out to involve the figure as an extension of palpable brushwork.

In Untitled, the muted tonal values of the background act as the foil to the erupting yet subtle color and animated brushwork in the center.

Whereas de Kooning embraced active, dynamic brushwork in such milestones as Woman I, 1950 - 52, Diebenkorn's compositions bring together soft planes of color that undulate and flow within the frame.

Although blotting with rice paper between layers erased the brushwork, he drew into the wet washes with oil pastels, making delicately deliberate marks that at first read as residue from the washes.

It has such newcomers with edgy reputations as Winkleman with lessons from Jennifer Dalton, Zach Feuer with open brushwork from Kianja Strobert, On Stellar Rays with monitors on the floor for performance by Clifford Owens, and another Lower East Sider in Eleven Rivington, with dense, lush abstraction by Jackie Saccoccio — whose solo show downtown was even better.

But the deep purple hues and gestural anomalies within Negative Value I, II and III, 1982 are not the result of the swashbuckling brushwork typical of abstraction; more accurately, they might be viewed as the divine accident in triplicate.

Discarded are the paintbrushes and the brushwork, as are any hints texture or paint medium.

When, at first, drips extend the outline of a curve, they arise from the action of gravity on a picture leaning vertically against the wall as he worked, not from brushwork or chance.

Its colors build to a greater darkness, and the brushwork resolves into hands raised as if scraping against a wall in the throes of death.

Eschewing tools, as if to reject any reliance on the flightiness of brushwork, he applies layer upon layer of somber - hued pigment directly with his hands, not so much to paint as to rub the color onto the canvas.

These masterworks of narrative compositions are astutely conscious of flatness, illusion, and draftsmanship, with dynamic brushwork and colors that freely incorporate comics and pop culture as much as they sample the grand tradition.

He preferred a palette knife, because he distrusted anything as personal as brushwork.

The new pictures still utilize an all - over armature as a structural footing, but forms, colors and brushwork are allowed to break free, if not gain complete independence.

Her brushwork becomes increasingly all - over, as one used to say, but less dense.

Whether in Guston's lush yet fragile impasto, Mitchell's fleet, tactile brushwork or Frankenthaler's lyrical oil washes that sketch myths and memories as they permeate the canvas, each artist created their own unique fusion of colour and gesture.

Mr. Burton's happy indifference divulges itself not only in his compositions — which aren't resolved so much as left to maunder — but also in his brushwork.

They course through her white sheets with the width of brushwork, the fluid motion of a pen, and a life of their own, which makes sense once you recognize them as blue ink on drafting film.

Elliot references Taoist meditation in her methodology, specifically as it relates to the slushy brushwork she applies to each meticulous ground.

Her work became much calmer and relaxed, as evidenced both by her shades and brushwork.

Her surfaces congest too quickly, her brushwork moves with initiative but little purpose, and her use of white as a compositional clarifier evinces a want of coloristic imagination.

He does not so much use brushwork, drips, or poured paint as mop the paint on, with a long brush, somehow maintaining control.

One of the more difficult tasks for younger artists is to make abstract painting genuinely new — that is, sincerely and intelligently felt instead of performed (as with too much geometric work) or blurted out (as with too much AbEx - redux brushwork) like a rant in a family argument.

While her works are recognizable as tangled thickets of impenetrable undergrowth or clustered, leaf - laden limbs of the copse, the eye is always led to the tangible quality of the paint and brushwork.

With this use of drawing came the change in his brushwork that made it seem, at first, as if he had become another artist.

In these powerful, small format works, under ten inches square, a bird or plant may be featured or as in «Untitled 1707» the confident brushwork and bold marking bring fundamental form into action.

For example, Reversed C and Reversed Stretched C show what appears to be the same form repeated, yet variations in the sewn panels as well as in coloration and brushwork are revealed.

However, his rejection of the expressive brushwork employed by other abstract expressionists such as Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko, and his use of hard - edged areas of flat color, can be seen as a precursor to post painterly abstraction and the minimalist works of artists such as Frank Stella.

One of the youngest of the second - generation abstract expressionists, he invites comparison with such figures as Alfred Leslie and Grace Hartigan, whose vigorous brushwork brought them attention in the 1950s but whose changing styles have made their oeuvres tricky to summarize.

With her primitive brushwork, she paints the world she has actually seen and experienced such as plants, trees and rivers she sees while walking, a house she used to live in, cats, the moon in the sky, and a dreamy girl, creating somewhat lonely and fleeting fantasy, yet recalling the sweet memories of the past in the paintings.

But as much as Freud's brushwork cleaves to its objects, it cleaves them apart.

What is at stake in this work is not so much representing a figure and giving it flesh, but the staging of an image's life — as if the image was taking revenge upon the portrait and pushing its way to the surface of the canvas, with the help of curtains and shadows, pictorial marks and brushwork.

As with all of Ms. Kusama's efforts on canvas, the latest Net paintings are just work: no inspired brushwork or heroic flourishes.

In an apparent jibe at the impulsive and layered brushwork of Abstract Expressionism, here the brushstroke reappears, replete with drips and set against a field of Lichtenstein's signature Ben - Day dots, as a gesture of control rather than spontaneity.