Sentences with phrase «calligraphic white writing»

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Automatic writing was an important vehicle for action painters Franz Kline (in his black and white paintings), Jackson Pollock, Mark Tobey and Cy Twombly, who used gesture, surface, and line to create calligraphic, linear symbols and skeins that resemble language, and resonate as powerful manifestations from the collective unconscious.

Tobey is most notable for his creation of so - called «white writing» - an overlay of white or light - colored calligraphic symbols on an abstract field which is often itself composed of thousands of small and interwoven brush strokes.

His intuitive approach to art - making is epitomized in the expressive black forms on white surfaces mentioned above, almost calligraphic in nature and akin to this Asian practice in their emphasis on gesture, both are forms of writing that transmit sense visually.

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Tobey's mature work is characterized by what he referred to as «white writing,» delicate calligraphic markings overlaying and animating the surface.

Other 20th century innovators of pen drawing include the American oriental artist Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976) who was famous for his «white writing» style of calligraphic paintings; the German artist Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze)(1913 - 51), noted for his hair - thin graphic seismograms; and Agnes Martin (1912 - 2004), noted for her delicate hand - drawn minimalist grids.

His unique calligraphic markings and his invention of white writing were very unexpected elements introduced to this specific movement in expressionism.

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 BurWhite 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 Burwhite 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).

• Biography • Early Career • Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) • White Writing: Calligraphic Abstract Painting • Mature Career: Exhibitions • Tobey's Style of Art