Sentences with phrase «evocative qualities of paint»

He is a sophisticated visual thinker with an uncanny sensitivity to the material possibilities and evocative qualities of paint.

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His paintings, stemming from this dual interest in the forces of nature and abstraction, have strong gestural and textural qualities, intricate layering (with the strongest elements of each layer coming through into the final work), and an evocative sense of color and light that aim to distill something essential from the natural world.

The figure — the head — is captured with the qualities of a film still, caught within a frozen and blurry moment, depicted in a reduced palette of colors that are rendered in a series of horizontal bands of paint seemingly pulled across a smooth surface — slick and evocative.

From the»40s on, American Abstract Expressionism dominated the Western art landscape and returned many artists» attention to the evocative formal qualities of paint on canvas and traditional sculptural materials — although the biggest figure associated with «Action Painting», Jackson Pollock, also stuck detritus including cigarette butts, coins, buttons, and keys onto the surfaces of his paintings.

This arose when the artist placed an emphasis on the texture, tactile quality or other evocative powers of the paint or other materials (often unusual ones).

He focused neither on the vitality of the American urban experience nor on the restorative qualities of the rural landscape but on an evocative combination of the two, as in this haunting painting of 1932, Imagination.

Her evocative use of pictorial space and her juxtapositions of thick paint and textured washes have a unique and timeless quality, which is further enhanced by a conspicuous absence of contemporary signifiers.