Sentences with phrase «expressionist brushstrokes»

These works featured loose and versatile expressionist brushstrokes.
Instead of an individual style honed over the years, they mixed it up, with expressionist brushstrokes alongside pop culture graphics and any number of other sources.
Avery insisted on a rigorous study of his subject, and most of these mature works were the result of sketches or drawings made with color notations, later enlarged and simplified into watercolor or oil crayon and finally translated to oil applied in luminous, thin washes of closely valued colors overlaid with swiftly applied expressionist brushstrokes.
At her very best, Brown's spread - legged females take the Creamsicle colors of de Kooning, expressionist brushstrokes after Jackson Pollock, the confrontation with women in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon or Picasso's portraits and then some.
He still wants to make abstract expressionist brushstrokes.
But he also knows that, by this time, there has been so much abstract expressionist brushstrokes.
A triptych on white paper, cutting across separate frames, stages the classic abstract expressionist brushstroke - of which Roy Lichtenstein made satirical hay - as a black comet, trailing detritus as it arcs toward nowhere.
But the starting - point of these second - generation artists tended to be an appreciation of the painterly quality of the abstract - expressionist brushstroke rather than existential motives of the sort that prompted the work of the artists of the New York School.

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The twist was that sometimes the labels were mixed up, so that the volunteers might think they were viewing a chimp's messy brushstrokes when they were actually seeing an expressionist piece by Mark Rothko.
As an abstract expressionist, West often used hard edged and bold brushstrokes in her paintings.
April 19 - June 15, 2018 Opening Reception: April 19, 6 - 8 pm Ernest Briggs, a second generation Abstract Expressionist painter, was known for his strong, lyrical brushstrokes, use...
The individual curls and ripples of paper echo the contours of traditional brushstrokes, in some passages even taking on the gestural quality of abstract expressionist paintings.
Through his use of gestural brushstrokes, Paul created inherent motion within his works, leading many art historians to name him the first action painter and a precursor to the abstract expressionists of the 1950s.
Looking instead to the Post-Impressionists, the Abstract Expressionists, and the De Stijl movement, Ding painted Taboo (1986) out of a limited palette of muted tones and bold, long brushstrokes depicting a dynamic combination of marks, its anxious, forceful energy seeming to mirror the turmoil of state and self in the aftermath of the revolution.
The de Kooning — a vortex of flesh - toned brushstrokes and irregular shapes accentuated with bubble - gum pink and sky blue — was painted in 1975, the beginning of a two - year stretch considered among the most accomplished in the Abstract Expressionist artist's life.
The Golden Age artist was particularly admired for his painterly style, his use of visible brushstrokes in turn inspiring the work of the Abstract Expressionists.
Instead, the brushstrokes characteristic of her early Abstract Expressionist period took on renewed vigor and importance.
Georges Rouault was a French expressionist artist, recognizable for his rough painterly style and thick black brushstrokes that outline the subjects of his paintings.
Kline's reduction of palette was indeed instrumental in the development of his individual style among the Abstract Expressionists as it allowed him to more fully explore form through line and brushstroke, seeking to define space and movement in an abstract idiom.
Recalling the gestural brushstrokes of the Abstract Expressionists, Lee's energetic application of ballpoint ink captures the absorbing, physical act of the artist.
During the late 1950's, a group of second - generation abstract expressionists began to imitate and develop Newman's style, aiming to remove all subjective elements including brushstrokes.
A third - generation abstract expressionist, Meyer creates painterly ribbons and tangles of brushstrokes that amass into loosely grid - based structures, often under - painted with warm pastel washes.
Ms. Hartigan, a friend and disciple of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, subscribed to the Abstract Expressionist notion of the painterly brushstroke as existential act and cri de coeur but, like de Kooning, she never broke entirely with the figurative tradition.
Rinck's canvases are boldly painted with strong colourful brushstrokes reminiscent of Fauvism, and the harsh angular figures from the work of the German Expressionists.
Lichtenstein has covered the «canvas» side with broad, gestural brushstrokes reminiscent of those by Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and other Abstract Expressionists.
The show brings together a series of works produced by this second - generation abstract expressionist between 1958 and 1975, including canvases saturated with sensuous color and defined by fluid brushstrokes.
The Washington artists, including Reed, often followed a strict geometric approach in their work, as they sought to move away from the «gestural» manner of abstract expressionist painting, in which the movement of the artist's hand across the canvas was evident in every brushstroke or drip.
An important yet overlooked figure of the Bay Area Abstract Expressionist movement, Gechtoff was known for producing vibrant large - scale works featuring expressive gestural brushstrokes and thickly - applied layers of oil paint.
In the eleven paintings that were in this show, all equal in size and in identical thin black frames, densely expressionist or allusively calligraphic brushstrokes bunch or stutter across shimmering color fields.
That's why I've been studying these women Abstract Expressionists because their brushstrokes look like pieces of lettuce.
Filling canvases with fields of deeply saturated color and layers of expressionistic brushstrokes, both subtle and bold, Gilliam was a part of the Washington Color School (late 1950s through mid -»70s) and has been associated with the Abstract Expressionists.
Built up into a thick impasto of rich colors, Pollock's brushwork is typical of Abstract Expressionist gestural painting, in which visible brushstrokes are seen as physical traces of the creative act.
For Lichtenstein, it was using the brushstroke, which Abstract Expressionist painters often wielded with abandon, taking it one step further, and making the brushstroke itself the subject of the painting.
«This specifically Modern vision», Amnon Barzel asserts, «was born in the divided brushstrokes of the Expressionists; it cuts across 20th century Modernism through the high points of Cubism, the use of collages and Rauschenberg's «combines» and finally expresses itself in Schnabel's broken plates» (A. Barzel, «With Schnabel, About Schnabel», in Julian Schnabel, exh.
By replicating their bold, fluid, and gestural brushstrokes by other means and on a smaller scale, one could say the abstract expressionists were making «still lifes» of the painterly qualities that they were working so hard to cultivate on their canvases.
Tworkov, who was born in Biala, Poland, in 1900, was a key member of the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, and in 1949 was a cofounder of the Eighth Street Club, which was one of the central meeting points of the movement, but later in his career he broke from the style, making geometric abstraction with conceptual underpinnings that still sometimes included loose brushstrokes.
Recalling the artist's early abstract expressionist work, the underpainting is dense with Tworkov's signature flame - like brushstrokes that are covered with a precisely rendered geometric grid of rectangles.
«Enter the permanent collection galleries of any museum of modern and contemporary art in the United States and it's likely you'll lay eyes on a familiar story: the muscular narrative of the Abstract Expressionists — Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, et al. — attacking their canvases in their 1940s cold water flats, creating a distinctly American art out of drips and splashy brushstrokes, continuing through the pathways of»60s Pop (Andy Warhol) and»70s Minimalism (the metallic stacks of Donald Judd) before landing at the Neo-Expressionism of the»80s (Jean - Michel Basquiat and Julian Schnabel).
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