Sentences with phrase «brushwork on»

One of the few female painters to gain recognition within the American Abstract Expressionist movement, Joan Mitchell was known for her often violent brushwork on unprimed canvases.

While fellow artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning created high drama with drips and bravura brushwork on billboard - size canvases, Mr. Seliger conjured up his own private worlds on canvases, and later Masonite boards, that rarely exceeded the dimensions of a cafeteria tray.

Ryman is known for his experimentation and achievement of pictorial complexity through a vigorous investigation of paint and brushwork on a wide range of supports.

Her brushwork on the wall has as much to do with a stylish present as with the elegance of tapestry in art.

In a similar way, Benedict's brushwork on the ceramics recalls the happy period when Picasso was working with master potters in the same part of France.

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

Painting darkness is a new and highly successful direction in the work of Ryan Cobourn, who has turned his searching, energetic brushwork from evocations of flowers and light on water to a sensate exploration of the indistinct.

In these new pieces, Poons relies entirely on brushwork where before his process involved a range of technique from pouring paint to collage.

Ryman focuses on the materials, on how to paint, on the brushwork, the surfaces, the textures, on all the subtle nuances of the structure of the painting (the ground, the screws, fastening systems and so forth).

In this presentation of abstract works, you'll see how artists, including Robert Motherwell, Betty Parsons, and Joan Mitchell used loose brushwork and emphasized surface rather than depth on the canvas.

These types of jars carry a communal spirit, but when Nara paints on them, his lively brushwork displays his playful nature.

Its washy field of lavender gray brushwork seems to shudder with light and wind, yet no imagery appears without projection on the viewer's part.

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.

The first ramp has new conceptions of painting, centering on Piene, mostly monochrome muted and roughened by brushwork and sand.

We've only got two images to go on and since one of the two figurative works reminds us a little of careful brushwork and delicate landscapes Echo Eggebrecht has become known for (minus the figure), this show gets a nod.

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 betteOn 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 betteon 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.

The blocks may be lush passages of wet - on - wet brushwork, but their surfaces conceal rather than reveal the compositions» greater meaning.

The performative nature of the paintings and the artist's self - awareness on camera recalls Hans Namuth's infamous photographs of Jackson Pollock's dramatic painting process — images that have defined our understanding of his active bodily presence.18 However, in Saint Phalle's hands, there is an explicit refusal of the terms of abstraction that Pollock and others of his generation perfected — i.e., the expression of exquisite anguish that could be exorcized by subjective brushwork from the singular, heroic male artist.

Painting with a single layer of paint on a white ground, Neel «draws» with her brush directly on to the canvas, using the brushwork and harsh colours to convey information, not for their own sake.

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.

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.

Sometimes interruption of the surface brushwork creates the lines, and a work divided between red and gray seems consciously to mime Jasper Johns in ink on acetate.

She insisted on calling herself a «late, late Abstract Expressionist,» and you sort of see what she means with her always evident brushwork and slightly tremulous lines.

The way she juxtaposes the elements and manages brushwork suggests a strong dedication to the very process which is based on the idea of constant refurbishment and the factor of surprise.

On canvas, brushstrokes start to cavort more far freely and densely than in the brushwork illusions of David Reed and James Nares.

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.

True to form, Moran composed an emotional soundtrack on the church's balcony inspired by Mehretu's signature turbulent brushwork.

Her painterly vocabulary is assembled from saturated skeins of color, and thick, gestural brushwork that reveal the effect of light on the urban environment, including early morning fog, and the shadows of twilight.

These changes in venue and topography prompted more energetic brushwork, less contained shapes and a reinvented composition with greater emphasis on the sky to shape the pictorial space.

The large abstractions mix lively brushwork with bold spray painted areas, while the works on paper (inspired by the body prints of David Hammons) capture the imprint of Ms. Ferris» clothed body with pigments and oils over a network of brushed, linear forms.

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

Work with Winter Workspace artist Elisabeth Condon to immerse yourself in the art of brushwork and experience the magic of practicing idioms in ink on rice paper.

The unique brushwork, alongside the delicate and refined feel for color, allowed Neel to enter the psychological depths of her subjects and pass them on to the viewers.

Departing from realism, Thomas loosened up her brushwork and began to focus more intently on fields of color.

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

The paintings in this series share similarities in palette (muted), brushwork (loose), and the placement of forms on the pictorial space, but a closer look reveals great differences in tone and mood.

These sometimes haunting, always powerful, images are then executed in refined and expert brushwork in oil on panel.

Among the first - time dealers, Nicelle Beauchene displays suggestive black marks on elusive brushwork by Ryan Nord Kitchen, while Lyles & King has photographs by Ethan Greenbaum as the central point in what might be the challenge of collage, painting, or sculpture.

She began working on large - scale oil paintings containing expressive gestural brushwork that foretold what would become her signature voice.

While the two schools of abstract expressionist painting shared certain characteristics ---- large scale; bold, gestural brushwork; emphasis on the materiality of paint; figure and ground equal or collapsed into overall, non-hierarchical compositions ---- Bay area artists, influenced by Asian cultures and the expansiveness of the western landscape, in addition to European painting, invited landscape references into their work whereas New York painters resisted such associations.

In his sunlit top floor studio in Manhattan, under a wide, square skylight, a large canvas on the working easel, others in progress on the walls nearby, and a paint covered and stained work table beside them, Kahn continues to invent landscapes of often unlikely color combinations and expressive brushwork.

While there is no one prescribed style, Abstract Expressionist canvases are known for loose brushwork, all - over composition, an emphasis on surface rather than depth, and a grand sense of scale.

Julian Jackson's soft brushwork and inner glowing color, Sharon Brant's light phenomena, and Heidi Glück's expanded edges on the other hand, work to de-materialize paint and the object in favor of a subtle ephemera.

Executed in flat, intensely pigmented acrylic gouache, these new paintings retain Curry's collagist sensibility: highly finished areas (some done with an airbrush) contrast with fields of roughly slapped - on brushwork.

Greenwald writes that both Harris and Ray's works are products of «expeditions to view Renaissance masterworks in the churches and museums of Italy and France... Ray's postcard - sized pictures are perfectly suited to the narrow walls of Steven Harvey Fine Arts... Based on her own travel photos of the architecture and frescos of Ravenna and Assisi, Rome and Florence, Ray's artwork about artwork has unfussy yet precise brushwork.»

Paint doesn't necessarily need to be manipulated with small and controlled strokes, on the contrary it is often a free brushwork that makes these paintings stunning and keeps them clear of the boundaries with miniature.»

Through supple brushwork and radiating, overlaid chromatic arrangements of paint, these mostly large oil paintings capture the gradual, scattered and tinctured nature of sunlight, the natural impressions and undulations caused by wind patterns, the brooding textures of storm fronts, and the wild effects of humidity on light.

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.»