Sentences with phrase «expressive abstract works»

LONG OVERDUE, THE COLORFUL AND EXPRESSIVE abstract works of Alma Thomas (1891 - 1978), pictured above, are being celebrated with a groundbreaking retrospective at the Tang Museum at Skidmore College in upstate New York.

Not exact matches

Tyler works in three different styles, yet they all look and feel unquestionably connected: minimalist forms with expressive gestures, expressive abstraction of instinct and chance, and abstract forms derived from nature.

His rich, expressive body of work represents a synthesis of his modern abstract training with Hans Hofmann, the palette of Matisse, Rothko's sweeping bands of color, and the atmospheric qualities of American Impressionism.

In this tour of the 2014 Biennial, families will explore the many ways painters are creating abstract works today and will try their hand at creating bold, expressive marks of their own.

Mixed media abstract expressionist painting using brush work, montoype, gouache, acrylic paints to blend an expressive work from her «Plains Series» based on her visions of the weste...

The dark, murky canvases and expressive abstract bronzes are drawn partly from Mr. Kirkeby's studies in the 1960s, when he traveled in Greenland and the Arctic while working on a master's degree in geology.

Consisting of six contemporary painters and approximately thirty works, this exhibition explores the manner in which these women appropriate both the physical, dramatic processes and the expressive freedom of direct gesture at the core of action painting, redeploying the now - historic style to boldly advance the abstract painting of our time.

Not strictly representative, yet not fully abstracted either, her work is a combination of expressive and observational methods.

Highlighting better - known names — Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell — alongside lesser - known ones — Sonia Gechtoff, Perle Fine — the exhibition will encompass 12 women's work, «focus [ing] on the expressive freedom of direct gesture and process at the core of abstract expressionism, while revealing inward reverie and painterly expression,» according to the description.

His works on view at Sara Nightingale Gallery are derived from his recent series titled Health of the Planet, and feature emotively configured abstract works that juxtapose elegantly expressive applications of color and line with x-rays of various flora and fauna.

Women of Abstract Expressionism will focus on the expressive freedom of direct gesture and process at the core of abstract expressionism, while revealing inward reverie and painterly expression in these works by individuals responding to particular places, memories, and life experiences.

Upon moving to New York City, he reacted against the expressive use of paint by most painters of the abstract expressionist movement, instead finding himself drawn towards the «flatter» surfaces of Barnett Newman's work and the «target» paintings of Jasper Johns.

The DAM's exhibition focuses on the expressive freedom of direct gesture and process at the core of abstract expressionism, while revealing inward reverie and painterly expression in these works by individuals responding to particular places, memories and life experiences.

For her elegant exhibition «Time Being,» abstract artist Sky Pape created expressive works on paper using a combination of Sumi ink, water, gouache, and Flashe acrylic paint, applied with homemade brushes and palm fronds.

These monumental works represent the artist's continued exploration of expressive forms and structure abstracted from nature.

Born from a substratum of abstract expressive paint, the figural elements of Huey's work hail from a multiplicity of styles and eras.

Wolf Kahn's rich, expressive body of work represents a synthesis of his modern abstract training with Hans Hofmann, the palette of Matisse, Rothko's sweeping bands of color, and the atmospheric qualities of American Impressionism.

Works by the conceptual minimalists Sol LeWitt and Walter De Maria have been installed alongside with Katharina Grosse's expressive and abstract painting.

With his roots in printmaking and Surrealism, British artist Stanley William Hayter's (1901 — 1988) theoretical writings on automatism and the expressive abstraction of his own work were a formative influence on Pollock and other abstract expressionists via his printmaking studio, Atelier 17, where Hayter taught Pollock and other well known artists including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Max Ernst, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Jacques Lipchitz and Alberto Giacometti.

However, his rejection of the expressive brushwork employed by other abstract expressionists such as Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko, and his use of hard - edged areas of flat color, can be seen as a precursor to post painterly abstraction and the minimalist works of artists such as Frank Stella.

His works combine recognizable motifs with expressive, abstract gestures that offer intricacies of line, color, and shape.

Inscape — the Inner Nature of Things contrasts twelve artists» diverse approaches to expressing emotion through abstraction, ranging from basic forms combined with loose, expressive lines in paintings by Louisa Chase, Mary Heilmann, and Perle Fine; to pure abstract gesture that governs the work of Friedel Dzubas, John Ferren, Hans Hofmann, Raymond Parker, and Esteban Vicente.

Referencing art history, mythology, and the work of such artists as Richard Diebenkorn, Franz Kline, and Pablo Picasso, Maureen Chatfield paints expressive, landscape - inspired abstract canvases.

The DAM's exhibition focuses on the expressive freedom of direct gesture and process at the core of abstract expressionism, while revealing inward reverie and painterly expression in these works [as they respond -RCB- to particular places, memories, and life experiences.

Abstractionists working in a painterly, post-Minimalist manner — an approach that combines a pared - down, abstract vocabulary with either expressive brushwork or Pop art's theatricality — can be divided into two groups: those who are demonstrating abstraction's continuing vitality and those who are simply nostalgic for its high - toned rhetoric.

In his new work, the painterliness is more expressive and composition pared down: a small sad donkey wails into the large abstract atmosphere, or in another painting, a goofy horse with a heroic cape pounces into a large field of vibrant pink brushwork.

Considerably more abstract than much of Warren's previous work in this medium — though perhaps even more overtly sensual — they recall a whole tradition of manually expressive sculpture, from the early ceramics of Lucio Fontana through Willem de Kooning's bronzes and those of William Tucker to Franz West's plaster «Passstucke.»

With a room of her own, Gildersleeve produces expressive, color drenched work at once evoking abstract expressionism as well as more traditional landscape painting.

This work channels deeper into the expressive possibilities of unruly abstract color.

Brown's early work was characterized by thick paint and expressive texture, and was clearly influenced by abstract expressionism.

Discover the power of drawing together as we mark, smudge, and smear surfaces with expressive lines, shapes, and tones, producing a series of unique abstract works in various materials.

«My work is abstract and expressive, which means that I don't use sketches or other kinds of preparatory work before starting on a painting.

Like many other modern movements, Abstract Expressionism does not describe any one particular style, but rather a general attitude; not all the work was abstract, nor was it all expressive.

His colorful, expressive and bold style Carly's works pioneers a new direction in abstract art, his works are illustrated by multilayers of shapes, bold strokes and sketches that pull the viewer into a vortex of dynamism and color.»

He as well focused on abstracts for a time, discovering new media in his works with quick brushwork and expressive movements.

The Turner Prize is named after the great 19th - century British painter J.M.W. Turner, whose expressive seascapes gave way in later life to impressionistic, even abstract work.

In some works, imagined architectural interiors were laid out as virtual stage sets; in others, close up studies turned floors, walls and furnishings into abstract patterns, and expressive drawings attempted to describe the interior spaces of the mind, those places onto which we project our hopes and fears.

Although predominantly abstract, Rae's paintings have also occasionally incorporated figurative elements, including expressive typography in works such as Moonlite Bunny Ranch 2003, and small cartoon - like pandas, a recurring motif in her work from the mid-2000s onwards (see, for instance, Bold as a wild strawberry, sweet as a naughty girl 2009).

With the help of his friend André Breton, Gorky added deeply personal titles to his new works, which gave them an expressive quality that defied their abstract nature.

The addition of this early but classic work by Winters will help the gallery tell the story of painting in the 1980s, when artists such as Johns, Anselm Kiefer, Brice Marden, and others proved the continuing vitality of expressive abstract painting.

As evident in this unique work, Jazz Me Blue, Reznikoff's abstract paintings evoke jazz's signature improvisation and expressive qualities.

Later he would create more expressive bodies of work; in the 1980s, he began his Moby Dick series, a large group of three - dimensional abstract works inspired by chapters from the Herman Melville classic.

The exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bonn presents 35 works by Albert Oehlen from every phase of his career, including the computer paintings of the early 1980s, the grey paintings of the 1990s, and the artist's current abstract - expressive works, as well as a group of his most recent works, which were created with the Bonn exhibition in mind.

Such works typify his achievement, enhancing the viewer's experience of his or her surroundings, while expanding the role of abstract art beyond its familiar expressive and formal functions.

Unlike Malevich, Kandinsky insisted that even his most abstract work retained expressive content.

Also, Laura Owens» evocative figural painting and Franz West's expressive abstract sculptures, that stir up the past with allusions to art history, to Gabriel Orozco's series of works that preserve the presence of the present with images of his own physicality.

Nonetheless, Thomas steadfastly pursued dimensions of abstract painting in the decades that followed, changing the variables of her work when she achieved a particularly expressive result.

A full spectrum of styles is represented, from exquisite photorealistic paintings to expressive and abstracted representational works.

Women of Abstract Expressionism focuses on the expressive freedom of direct gesture and process at the core of abstract expressionism, while revealing inward reverie and painterly expression in these works by individuals responding to particular places, memories, and life experiences.

The other works in the exhibition, by Hans Hofmann, Milton Avery, Robert Motherwell, and Paul Resika are abstracted to varying degrees through expressive paint handling, bold color, simplified shapes, and other techniques.