Sentences with phrase «brushwork at»

Schapiro's looser expressionist paintings crowded with brushwork at the start of her career began to include, along with images evoking the feminine, geometric forms and more open spaces in the 1960s.

These earlier paintings contain overlapping black and umber brushwork at vertical, horizontal, and diagonal angles, holding forth shimmers of light — discreet underpinnings of ochre and yellow — peering between constructed sections.

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.

Not exact matches

The pointillist technique focuses on small, individual brushwork strokes which the viewer can't differentiate when looking at from afar.

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.

Well, Frederick Wong has found it in these quiet, misty scenes, suggesting at once the light and the brushwork of Gainsborough, Corot, and Monet, the philosophical overtones of Song scrolls.....

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.

In this, the artist's first solo exhibition at Marlborough Gallery since 2013, Güneştekin lends his signature detailed, combed brushwork, rich symbolism, graphic lines and intense color schemes to artwork in textiles, ceramics, and metal, in addition to oil on canvas works.

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.

The usual components include angst - free Abstract Expressionist brushwork, bits of popular advertising imagery, Surrealist automatist scribbles, spray - can vapor trails reminiscent of graffiti art and, at times, composite images built on the computer.

It is, however, precisely in its treatment of brushwork and color that Collection reveals Rauschenberg at his most analytical.

They combine a self - conscious catalog of brushwork and painterly scales, a palpable surface, and, at a distance, a sudden burst of color.

Undulating yet mechanical, they wryly recall the AbEx brushwork that Stella repudiated at the onset of his career.

The energetic and open brushwork, with its all - over rhythm and luminous density built from layers of translucent colour, relays the influence of American artist Sam Francis, and the Abstract Expressionist paintings he had seen exhibited at Tate in 1956.

Gallace's canvases are small, but they pack a painterly punch thanks to creamy brushwork, rich color and spare, simplified depictions of flowers, landscapes, barns, shorelines and other features of life lived close to nature — or at least, outside New York.

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 New York, an ongoing show at Mnuchin Gallery explores the affinity between his collage - like assemblages with the spontaneous, vibrant brushwork of de Kooning, whom he met in the late»50s.

The resulting exhibition, Perspectives 155: Francesca Fuchs, at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2007), featured paintings of babies, kitchens, dressers, and formal landscapes, each rendered with soft lines and painterly brushwork.

With their frequently scant brushwork, marks and indications of natural phenomena, the 10 landscape paintings and three graphite drawings in «Lois Dodd: Early Paintings» at Alexandre Gallery form a real eye - opener.

This piece depicts an impressionistic scene at the beach with beautiful brushwork and whimsical colors.

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.

Bathing his subjects in an austere light, and rendering them with strong, confident brushwork, Michaël Borremans executes paintings that seduce and hold at bay, keeping the history of art in dialogue while committing wholly to the iconography of our time.

These modular forms become units to be deployed; abutted, inset and interlocked against each other, whilst the choice of an aluminium ground keeps the brushwork fluid, capturing the rhythm of the artist at work.

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.

Loose brushwork, semi-visible underlayers, and untouched drips of paint reveal the process of careful adjustment by which he arrived at the work's seemingly casual perfection.

My work is informed at a technical level by certain landscape painting, in the use of colour and brushwork for example, or Constable's clouds, which are the best in that tradition.

My own perception is shared by others: from the beginning, Hoyland seems to have willed abstraction beyond its usual limits so that the formal means taken, through colour and brushwork, to arrive at a particular end, embark upon their own celebration and extravagances of colour and varied impasto — through intensity of physical expression and a willingness to aim, nearly always, at the unfolding of a spectacle rather than the mere trapping of a formal idea.

Looking at the work of younger women artists today, we find glimpses of naked body parts and even genitalia in Cecily Brown's sexy abstractions, for example, but her imagery is more about hide - and - seek amid gorgeous brushwork than putting the male body center stage.

During four days of sales at Sotheby's Hong Kong, the predominantly Asian buyers spent $ 106 million (excluding watches) on Chinese jade, porcelain, Imperial accessories and ink brushwork paintings.

With painterly brushwork and sketchily drawn forms, artists such as John Sloan, George Bellows, and Everett Shinn restituted the value of vernacular with subjects not necessarily considered artistic, such as grimy streets, popular entertainment, and children at play.

Influenced by Paul Gauguin, Fauvism was an important movement in the history of expressionist painting, which advocated brilliant colours and wild brushwork - hence their nickname Les Fauves (wild beasts), given them by the critic Louis Vauxcelles after their first showing at the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1905.

Oliveira's works often have an almost shamanistic quality to them that is at once melancholic and mystical and which is intensified by the artist's loose, but thick brushwork and skillful manipulation of gradations in light and color.

During this period he began to make drawings of cartoon images such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, at first combining them in paintings with Abstract Expressionist brushwork.

«Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi: Beijing 1930,» at The Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, New York, presents the Japanese - American artist's large - scale ink paintings in conversation with the brushwork of eminent Chinese literati painter, Qi Baishi, in the story of the chance encounter between the two in China in the 1930s.

Rather than trying to get precise detail, as I did when I used to paint with a tiny little brush at times, the monotypes were wonderful in terms of not only loose brushwork but in terms of wiping and smudging, etc., and I think it helped the painting a great deal.»

Combined with the fact that most of the works share commonalities, such as loose brushwork and vivid colors, the viewer sees not one individual work but all works at the same time.

Still Life with Cockatoo was painted ten years later and reflects Chase's study at Munich's Royal Academy and exposure to the virtuoso brushwork of European Old Masters.

In his new work at Brian Gross, even brushwork has disappeared from all but one picture, «Nevis» (2000), which Feasel considers transitional.

As you look at the paintings, you may attempt to make out some recognizable subjects, since they seem to be responses to the landscape or still - life traditions — and based on the brushwork and colors, they are.

Here the blazing figures form a tight, bright jigsaw, while landscape and sky benefit from more variegated brushwork, as if Thompson at the end of his life was toying with the idea of breaking up his big flat shapes and painting in a more spontaneous manner.

Work such as Pieter Schoolwerth's (Art MFA 93) portrait of The Supper at Emmaus re-makes Caravaggio's stark chiaroscuro with thick, gestural brushwork.

Art historians had begun using the term «abstract expressionism» at the end of World War I to refer to Kandinsky and other Europeans who painted abstractly with expressionist brushwork.

The ribbons of smoky, sooty brown that fill this picture stir memories of de Kooning's work at its most lilting and entirely contradictory thoughts of Roy Lichtenstein's stiff Pop satires of Abstract Expressionist brushwork.

In both his three - dimensional reliefs and two - dimensional «flat paintings,» he united the crisp, disciplined line of his Constructivist heritage with the expressive brushwork that characterized Bay Area painting at that time.

In the1970s, Johns initiated his Crosshatch series (Corpse and Mirror, 1978; Between the Clock and the Bed, 1981), abstract compositions of colored brushwork that recall his earlier work, but now individual strokes are distinct and gathered in parallel groupings arranged at angles.

There is no discernible difference between the works other than size and color — perhaps one might go better with this or that couch — and the brushwork is intentionally invisible, part of Shepherd's successful attempt at the effect of a CAD printout.

It creates the point of departure for the exhibition The Gestural, which deals with brushwork in the contemporary context - the first show of its kind at the Belvedere.

It looks as if Brown has fallen under the spell of London painter Howard Hodgkin, a wizard at finding figurative insinuations in coarse, straight - ahead brushwork.

Featuring solitary, enigmatic subjects set against vibrant, but dramatically vacant landscapes, many of Oliveira's paintings possess an almost shamanistic quality that is at once melancholic and mystical and which is intensified by the artist's loose, but thick brushwork and skillful manipulation of gradations in light and color.

Kanayama is another active volunteer at the oldest art club in America, deliberate in her pursuit of atmospheric naturalism mixed with expressive bold brushwork and vivid color.