Sentences with phrase «brushwork of»

He may not aim for the looser brushwork of Titian after sixty, in all its force and beauty.

Bacon's painstaking paint application of the mid-1940s contrasts strikingly with the open dry overall brushwork of the 1950s where figure and field dissolve and bleed into each other.

He turned the structure of pictorial space on its ear and expanded the language of gesture by trading in the brushwork of Abstract Expressionism for decorative switchbacks drawn from the needle of an industrial sewing machine.

Consider the flattened detail and illustrationistic brushwork of Frida Kalho, or the cartoonish and featureless shapes of Henri Rousseau.

His drip style did not inspire imitators precisely because it was so strikingly unique; whereas the gestural painters of the fifties could try out the autographic brushwork of Willem de Kooning or Franz Kline, or Philip Guston without necessarily producing a baldly derivative work, no one could paint a drip composition that did not look like a weak Pollock.

While he has at least put paint to canvas, Hirst's most famous pieces are light years away from the brushwork of the old masters, including such startling creations as a pickled shark, and a bisected cow and calf.

We find it in the soft and inviting brushwork of Joshua Backus's painting as it dissolves into Frankenthaler - like stains in a palette of verdigris and bitumen.

Ms. Brown's surfaces, which are hesitant and busy, evoke second - generation followers of Willem de Kooning like Joan Mitchell, as well as the more recent vibrating brushwork of Georg Baselitz and Susan Rothenberg.

From the energetic brushwork of Fran O'Neill to the sprays of Keltie Ferris, each artist holds her own and brings something different to the table.

His monumental early sculptures constructed from thick, discarded wooden beams or pieces of metal evoked the wide, bold brushwork of Abstract Expressionist painters such as Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline.

Arntzen combines the compositional color and form dazzle of Edna Andrade with the rawer neo-expressionist brushwork of Ross Bleckner's canvases and Elizabeth Murray's cartoon - informed approach to coloring and line to create bold personalities on canvas.

Works such as Hole Place and Lid's Night distill the free - flowing brushwork of the New York School into discrete vignettes of glowing form, each emerging from the shadowed plane like a luminescent creature from the quiet depths.

Any given piece can combine the dynamism of dance, the dripping aesthetic of street art, the textural complexity of forgotten clothing and the subtle brushwork of calligraphy, all in one frame.»

Featuring 37 landscape paintings, this exhibition demonstrates how Courbet was a radical innovator both in the motifs he chose to paint and in the dramatic brushwork of his paintings.

Check out the seemingly childish brushwork of the Philip Guston and get its intentional rhythm.

Manish's photographs zoom in on clumsily made drains with grey patches, brown streaks and gravelly seams, relating carelessly slapped - on cement to the critically esteemed gestural brushwork of abstract expressionism.

His patience in working the geometric elements is interestingly contrasted by the quick brushwork of the clouds, trees, and people.

His early works merged Pop collage techniques with the brushwork of Abstract Expressionism.

The sweeping strokes and rapid brushwork of both impastoed and diluted paint are the result of considerable thought, and include numerous figural references to a variety of imagery including bridges, tunnels and coal - mining equipment, as well as calligraphy.

His sporadic black moods seem to be expressed in the stormy atmosphere and restless brushwork of his paintings during these years, for example Hadleigh Castle (1829; Paul Mellon Center for British Art, New Haven) and the dramatic preparatory oil sketch for that picture (c. 1829; The Tate Gallery, London).

Only later in life did McCubbin combine the bright chromatic colour and all - over broken brushwork of French Impressionism.

It's the gallery's first presentation of Tworkov's work since they started representing the estate, and it's bound to be chock full of stylistic shifts — from the loose brushwork of his early paintings to the minimal marks of his latest canvases.

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.

Using the energetic brushwork of an accomplished colourist he successfully blends figure and surroundings.

Childhood memories of dirt biking culture informed the palette and the expressionistic brushwork of the white Biker 1 (14 January 2015) and black and cobalt Biker 2 (3 January 2015), which are arresting examples, as is the variegated dark Black Valley (6 February 2015).

«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.

The influence of calligraphy first became apparent in the tangled brushwork of his cityscapes of the 1930s, and Tobey went on to develop a unique style consisting of a web or network of calligraphic marks painted in white against a gray or coloured ground.

Pop artists made something of a habit of lampooning the bravura brushwork of this previous generation, parodying their lofty aspirations to achieve authentic and unique artistic expression through the liberating excess of their painterly marks.

From the entirely gestural, slashing brushwork of the 1950s, Mitchell in these works introduced a more finely wrought formal manner, creating self - contained, vortex - like shapes centered away from the canvases» edges and working in more complex color schemes than ever before.

The shifting lines and layered brushwork of these works most completely integrated the classical figurative tradition he absorbed during his earliest art studies and the instinctive painting processes of Abstract Expressionism.

He turned the structure of pictorial space on its ear and expanded the language of gesture by trading in the brushwork of Abstract Expressionism for decorative switchbacks drawn from the needle of an industrial sewing machine... The Shields avatar continues to influence the work of contemporary artists ranging from Jessica Stockholder to Jim Lambie to Lauren Luloff, and his aesthetic reach is one that crosses platforms, mediums and milieus.»

Groundbreaking for its day, particularly as a woman ceramicist, Choy's work aesthetically merged the formalist influences of abstract expressionism with traditional calligraphic brushwork of Asian potters.

We understand the languages of modernism the same way a Buddhist devotee would have understood a Mandala or a Confucian literatus the brushwork of a landscape painting.

This exhibition of selected American artists explores the diverse approaches to abstraction developed since 1950, from the forceful brushwork of Lee Krasner to the contemplative canvases and reliefs of Ellsworth Kelly and the enigmatic wood forms of Martin Puryear.

Steeped in the academic tradition of painting, Brown draws from the compositional structure, historical motifs, and virtuosic brushwork of master painters across a diverse range of genres.

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.

Robert Ryman in his evolution is so intimately tied up with the acme of formalism that the evident brushwork of a previous show could easily have seemed a mistake.

Francis Bacon's flayed skin and the broad brushwork of German Expressionism, for example, are evoked in his painterly language.

The paintings» qualities were variously reflected around the room: Sillman's flat - footed means bounced off the effortless clumsiness of Howard Hodgkin's After Matisse (1995 — 9) and the ham - fisted brushwork of Philip Guston's Sleeper (1972).

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.

In a gallery that also shows the fictive brushwork of Mark Sheinkman and Stephen Ellis, the patterning of Valerie Jaudon, and the illusion of natural processes in Catherine Howe and Joseph Stashkevetch, Fiore's smoke and mirrors fit right in.

Unlike the forceful brushwork of her male counterparts, Frankenthaler's motifs are much more fluid and harmonious, lending her work a rich and poetic quality.

There is the animated, textural brushwork of someone like Jenny Saville, which we have seen in Freud.

One can admire a realism that does without the precision of one tradition, like Philip Pearlstein and Chuck Close, or the snappy brushwork of another, like Alfred Leslie and Alice Neel.

In contrast, Mark Tobey used black and white to evoke the lyrical brushwork of Japanese calligraphy, in the form of a serenely organic ink painting.

The work exemplified the generational shift in the late 1950s and early 60s from the energetic brushwork of Abstract Expressionism to the cooler aesthetics of Pop Art and Minimalism.

Using a technique that stained canvases with liquid color, it was a counterpoint to the aggressive brushwork of the then dominant style of Abstract Expressionism.

Do all those marks belong to logic, «pure» painting, Pattern and Decoration, or the cartoon brushwork of Pop Art?

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.....

He combined the talent and skill of the masters with the bold, innovative brushwork of a modern artist.