They enjoyed mimicking shapes and lines with their bodies in front of Chakaia Booker's Acid Rain and using «magic paintbrushes» to imagine
the expressive brush strokes in Joan Mitchell's Orange.
In the 1990s Hodgkin began experimenting with larger formats, which allowed him to use even bolder and more
expressive brush strokes, and more open spaces.
By combining broad
expressive brush strokes with detailed line drawings, Dona has developed a language of paintings that is both representation and abstract.
Ambiguous features can morph from immense beauty into utter despair, with hints of the eyes breaking the surface beneath layers of paint, charcoal, turpentine,
expressive brush strokes and often physical DNA from the artists» fingertips.
Not exact matches
Oh, the comedy Feiffer coaxes out of a few keen
strokes of his
brush as he presents, in wonderfully
expressive pictures and brief text, the wacky tale of a puppy, George, who can't seem to bark.
The imagery of her art is crafted with unprecedented assertiveness, a combination of refined, complex and loose
brush strokes, characterized by violently
expressive color and jarring compositions that elicit vivid emotional reactions.
From a pictorial standpoint, Morton's
expressive manipulation of celastic clearly reflects a painterly attitude, her swags, knots and bows resembling large impasto
brush strokes.
Applying
expressive gestural
brush strokes, her rich palette of colors reveals the contrasts she finds in nature.
Joffe paints with
expressive fluidity, and uses broad
brush -
strokes and distortions to capture personality and a sense of movement.
The paintings are, of course, extremely small, and they are
expressive with regards to
brush strokes and the blending of paint.
While dealing with the very complex subject matter that is marriage, Zvavahera's work implies the
expressive handling of
brush strokes and a refusal to force a line to perform more than the ordinariness of its function.
Here it is being applied to the lightness of touch deployed in a
brush stroke or a mark made on a surface for
expressive effect.
Rendered with oil in a bold painterly manner, the
brush strokes feels sensual in its
expressive texture and feature a color palette that is as unselfconscious as the women he portrays.
From painters who fill their canvases with colours, shapes and abstract forms, to artists who attack their art with vigorous
brush strokes and
expressive colours; abstract expressionism is now welcomed in the gallery environment and regularly produced in the art world, but how does it connect to street art and graffiti?
The notion of the
brush stroke as an
expressive signature cuts across the break between traditional and modern art.