Sentences with phrase «confident paint strokes»

Her edgy, figurative canvases sizzle with bold women in various stages of undress, and black cats whose hisses resound through her confident paint strokes.

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It's a smart movie — a quintessentially L.A. one, too, in its self - awareness (the nameless hero is a stuntman, Richard Rush fans take note), and it has an extraordinary quality of stillness that paints in confident strokes what it feels like to be completely alone by luck you call choice.

Although her work results from deep observations of the history of painting — from Velasquez, Rembrandt, Caravaggio and Cezanne among others — her personal vision transcends classical notions of genre and narrative as she invites viewers into a delicious domain of confident brush strokes with a new aesthetic.

In the uniformity and repetition of the shapes, they seem to underline the formality of fixing nature into a stillness, but what unites these works with her more naturalistic landscapes are the deft, confident strokes of paint that seem to arrive effortlessly on the canvas, and their contradiction with the more preciously applied marks that flicker and activate the painting's surface, along with our eye.