In the eleven paintings that were in this show, all equal in size and in identical thin black frames, densely expressionist or allusively
calligraphic brushstrokes bunch or stutter across shimmering color fields.
On display will be an example of Yayoi Kusama's iconic Infinity Net paintings — seriality as a form of self - obliteration and self - definition — and a painting by the late US artist Mildred Thompson, who often found inspiration in scientific theories and universal systems, and whose buzzing palette of yellows and reds and
calligraphic brushstrokes evoke the invisible forces of magnetic energy.
Honoring traditional Asian arts through her use of Hanji paper, Korean silk, and
calligraphic brushstrokes, she plays with iconography and symbols that have been classified as «foreign» such as blue and white china patterns, fortune cookies (which originated in California but are identified as Chinese), Korean fans, and floating dragons and intermingles them with references to Pop and southern folk art.
The «gesture» in the show's title is shorthand for the term Action Painting, coined by Rosenberg to describe
the calligraphic brushstrokes — and, by extension, the existential angst — of AbEx's embryonic phase in the early 1940s.
Many of Laurel's works are composed of extruded forms resembling three - dimensional line drawings or
calligraphic brushstrokes.
Not exact matches
She has the largest, with only a few broad
brushstrokes against a slightly lighter field, like
calligraphic Chinese art, but in monochrome.
Her compositions,
calligraphic rhythms, bold colors and sweeping
brushstrokes reflect and transform the elements of Mitchell's interior landscape: water, sky, trees, flowers, weather, dogs, people, and places.
Treib's
calligraphic - like
brushstrokes read like some mysterious language, other forms feel grounded in the vocabulary of early modernist abstractions.
Her gestural
brushstrokes seem at once violent and poetic, capturing the energy and gesture of her signature
calligraphic line caught and held in a quiet equilibrium.
When working in this technique, Tobey would place white
calligraphic marks and symbols atop an abstract field composed of thousands of densely interwoven
brushstrokes.
These paintings, such as «Bolton Landing» (1957) and «Door to the River» (1960) bear broad
brushstrokes and
calligraphic tendencies similar to works of his contemporary Franz Kline.
The exhibition features paintings ranging from the late 2000's, highlighting Saito's use of vibrant color,
calligraphic gestural abstractions, and rhythmical
brushstrokes.