The earlier paintings tend to be more loosely gestural with dynamic brushstrokes alive with painted energy and subtly rich colour.
Moran's
earlier paintings tend to be more loosely gestural with dynamic brushstrokes alive with painted energy and subtly rich colour.
His earliest paintings tended to be abstract.
Not exact matches
no flaking of the
paint so far... the only thing that happens is our chairs get wet every morning from our sprinklers and the chairs do
tend to bleed onto light colored pants
early in the day.
The
paintings of the
early 80s are quieter in terms of their sculptural dimension,
tending back towards flatness, and yet the scribbly, jittery outlines of their shapes possess a comparable sensation of movement to those of 1971, like tectonic plates that have just begun to rub and unsettle.
Rather than the density of the urban environment that she
tends to portray, these new
paintings are more suggestive of the
earliest brimmings of Spring mosses, barks, and lichens.
If Bolduc's
earlier work
tended toward the decorative, the
paintings he began making in the 1980s and continued through the 1990s took on a deeper symbolic significance, reflecting both the influence of his travels and his voracious reading (his close friend Michael Ondaatje once remarked that Bolduc was the best - read person he had ever met).
While his
earlier works
tended towards abstraction, it was during his residency in Europe that Dewantoro was strongly influenced by the Romantic landscapes of 19th century visionaries William Turner and John Constable, initiating the development of his own cinematic landscape
paintings.
In a 2015 Artforum review of his second solo exhibition at Berry Campbell, Phyllis Tuchman discusses these
early paintings: «The bands, circles, and rectangles
tend to be shiny and reflect light, while the other parts of these canvases are covered with matte
paint.
Morgan Library and Museum: «Degas, Miss La La and the Cirque Fernando» (through May 12) Viewers catching their first glimpse of «Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando» will
tend to agree with an
early Degas biographer who called the
painting «one of his most surprising canvases.»
Particularly intriguing is the possibility that Mr. Katz's use of expanses of saturated color reflects not only the influence of Abstract Expressionism, the prevailing style when he was coming of age as an artist in New York City in the
early 1950's, but also the impact of his parents, bohemian Russian emigres who
tended to
paint the rooms of their Sheepshead Bay home in Brooklyn in strange, intense colors and unusual patterns.
Early paintings of this nature were brooding and edgy, while the
paintings he produced later
tended to be cheerful and pretty.
On the one hand, the art world
tends to look at abstract
painting as being traditional, even old - fashioned, which it is; when the
paint was wet on those
early Kandinskys, it was practically in the Victorian era, the space age still half a century away.