The exhibition features paintings ranging from the late 2000's, highlighting Saito's use of vibrant color,
calligraphic gestural abstractions, and rhythmical brushstrokes.
Each painting is a work in three modes: the chroma flag, the grey ground and
the calligraphic gestural surround.
Mathieu's
calligraphic gestural style is partially indebted to Hans Hartung, another artist associated with Tachisme.
Elements of symbolism, reminiscent of Gustav Klimt, decorate the composition with abstract markings and
calligraphic gestural brushwork.
Horse and rider, in vivid pinks and gold, combined with
calligraphic gestural painting.
Not exact matches
The mature paintings are atmospheric, architectural,
calligraphic, totemic,
gestural, immediate.
Yanyan Huang's elegant,
calligraphic paintings draw from the raw beauty nature and they sit alongside the vibrant, urban colors with dynamic
gestural movements of Emily Joelle Lambert.
Chang's earliest works were commissioned portraits, however, in the late 1950s, he stopped using brushes in favor of using his body to make abstract paintings that were at once
gestural and
calligraphic.
The artist's most recent abstract works on canvas and plywood feature
gestural lines influenced by
calligraphic writing.
In his large - scale oil painting Mother Tongue (2013), a hybrid geometric and
gestural abstract work, Gerber has been informed by French lyrical abstraction, more precisely the
calligraphic style of the German born painter Hans Hartung (1904 - 1989).
Vertical,
gestural composition in ink and acrylic paint with large areas of turquoise and ochre and spontaneous
calligraphic lines of red, indigo and bright yellow.
Saito's works are bright and
calligraphic, often covered in
gestural strokes of color, drips of paint, and stenciled capital letters.
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.
To achieve these opposing states, her paintings are active and dynamic; bold colors and shapes next to neutralized palettes and detailed scratches in the painting surface; combinations of strong
gestural strokes next to figurative elements; raw textured surfaces adjacent to text and
calligraphic details.
In the late 1980s, influenced by his growing interest and travels in Thailand, his style took a dramatic turn towards
gestural abstraction incorporating
calligraphic intricate lines on monochromatic panels — a nod to Asian characters and odes to nature.
Concrete Alphabets is a group exhibition that brings together 6 contemporary artists working in the medium of analog painting, all of whom concentrate on the material qualities of letterbased work from
gestural, abstract,
calligraphic, hieroglyphic, and more.
Franz Kline (1910 - 1962) Famous for
gestural action - painting &
calligraphic black - and - white pictures.
In a body of work that began in the mid-2000s, his
gestural,
calligraphic mark - making was applied over a field of floating capital letters.
Concrete Alphabets is a group exhibition that brings together 6 contemporary artists working in the medium of analog painting, all of whom concentrate on the material qualities of letter - based work from
gestural, abstract,
calligraphic, hieroglyphic, and more.
Through her painterly mark making, raw textured surface, large fields of color, and
calligraphic details, Fitzgerald creates contemplative
gestural abstractions with an emotional resonance.
The resultant images are
gestural,
calligraphic forms whose textures and fractal - like patterns are reminiscent of the endlessly repeating structures in nature that exist on multiple scale levels from the sub-atomic to the universal; a reflection of the complex architecture of our universe.»
Tape has also been the poetic,
calligraphic, and elegant
gestural subject of several of Smith's more exploratory installations.
When he was painting them he never isolated the blue works as a single series — the Stable exhibition was the first time that he highlighted them — but rather always produced them alongside other paintings; whether the various types of works involving
calligraphic,
gestural, or blocked marks in the 1940s, or the red and black paintings he was also making in the early 1950s.
Other important contributors to action painting include: Mark Tobey noted for his White Writing style of
calligraphic gesturalism; Franz Kline, an artist whose works include colour field compositions as well as vigorous
gestural work, sometimes compared to gigantically enlarged fragments of Chinese calligraphy); Robert Motherwell (in his series entitled Elegy to the Spanish Republic, and his powerful black and white paintings); Cy Twombly (in his
gestural works based on
calligraphic, linear symbols) and Adolph Gottlieb (noted for his abstract surrealist series including Pictographs, Imaginary Landscapes and Bursts).
Her art is reminiscent of not only the
gestural works of Abstract Expressionism, but Asian
calligraphic art, and also brings to mind the directness of children's art.
He has painted dynamic,
gestural canvases; monochromatic, minimalist works; grids;
calligraphic images; patterned or striped paintings, and he has experimented with collage.
With delicately balanced compositions featuring sweeps of black against a light ground, Kline contributed to the development of a
gestural,
calligraphic style of Abstract Expressionism.
When I look at those C - Swing paintings, because of their extreme physicality and their precariousness of form, they seem to have more in common with Ronald Bladen's elemental and geometric structures, than they do with any sort of
gestural paintings, even with the potential reference to Franz Kline's
calligraphic gestures.