Sentences with phrase «contemporary painterly gestures»
Her understanding of art - historical narratives, tied to recognizable shapes and patterns, comes in and out of focus — canonical motifs distorted by more contemporary painterly gestures.
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On the third floor, Ken Okiishi's painterly gestures cover video monitors playing moments from cable TV, as if to put abstraction in context of contemporary culture.
Given the basic humanity of geometry, it may come as a surprise to find that many contemporary painters, both figurative and abstract, think plain geometrical figures are chilly, «intellectual,» inhuman things best kept out of art or buried deep beneath lots of colorful, painterly gestures, thrustings and parryings.
I use gesture, improvisation, and painterly notation to translate Old Master imagery into a contemporary pictorial language.