Sentences with phrase «eliminated bravura»

Like her colleagues Mr. Gordon, Steve Paxton and Yvonne Rainer, she made dances that eliminated bravura, academic technique, acting and musicality — the hallmarks of modern dance as it had been developed by Martha Graham and others, not to mention ballet.

Unlike his cohorts, he did not adopt Frankenthaler's «staining» of unprimed canvases with poured color or employ acrylics but, like them, he considered expansive fields of color ample content, emphasized two - dimensionality in his work and eliminated bravura brushwork.

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Dzubas would never completely eliminate such bravura brushwork, which would come to define his future paintings to extraordinary effect.»