Sentences with phrase «expressive brushwork»

Sammy Peters produces abstract, multimedia compositions whose complex, layered images are made up of expressive brushwork, scribbles, gestural marks, drips, and collaged papers and fabrics.

Combining technical accuracy with expressive brushwork, her subjects are caught mid breath, surrounded by an impression of the natural world.

Using expressive brushwork, distorted form, vivid color, and other experimental techniques, these artists insist that portraiture is a subjective endeavor.

John Elderfield, borrowing the term from an early critic, the poet James Schuyler, calls the first group of paintings from 1959 — 60 «think - tough, paint - tough,» characterized by imposing scale and vigorously expressive brushwork.

Krieger continues her reductive process to reveal mood, energy and nature's fickle temperament through expressive brushwork and loose strokes.

And Tetsuo Ochikubo's All Things Exist, c1960 - 70, echoes Adolph Gottlieb's Edge, 1972, while George Miyasaki's lushly expressive brushwork is in sync with that of Pollock, de Kooning and a voluptuous pre-figurative Guston.

Educated in London and Paris, Mohamedi eventually settled in India by the early 1970s, when she began combining expressive brushwork and collage to produce atmospheric landscapes.

This grammar comprises expressive brushwork, chaotic compositions and perpetually altered or mutated figures that he often depicts between states of animal and human.

Eschewing expressive brushwork, his pictures are inordinately calm.

Her work demonstrates expressive brushwork and color emphasis, and is influenced by mid-20th century American painters.

The combination of the artists» masterfully expressive brushwork and vibrant, almost fauvist pallet, are unusual in contemporary Japanese painting, yet are engaged in the intimate and private worlds of the «here and now» of the Micropop dialogue.

In his thesis exhibition, Schafter demonstrated his skill at mastering the kind of figurative painting that was prevalent both locally and nationally at the time, where representational images are presented as juxtaposed vignettes and rendered with expressive brushwork or bold colors.

Described by the curator John Elderfield as «think - tough, paint - tough» due to their imposing scale and vigorously expressive brushwork, the pieces from the series include First Creatures from 1959, an abstract, indeterminate landscape exhibited here for the first time, and Mediterranean Thoughts from 1960, in which Frankenthaler's looping skeins of poured paint create partitions of varying sizes, leaving very little exposed canvas.

Combined with his limited color palette and expressive brushwork, each composition is a expression of movement and tension.

Metier begins with an actual subject, and then, using her expressive brushwork, turns it into an abstract composition; though more representational than usual for her, these paintings were still very much a part of her classic style.

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.

Through her expressive brushwork and vibrantly layered colour palette we witness each painting unfold before us.

In his sunlit top floor studio in Manhattan, under a wide, square skylight, a large canvas on the working easel, others in progress on the walls nearby, and a paint covered and stained work table beside them, Kahn continues to invent landscapes of often unlikely color combinations and expressive brushwork.

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.

Though the styles and approaches of these artists varied considerably, Abstract Expressionism is marked by abstract forms, expressive brushwork, and monumental scale, all of which were used to convey universal themes about creation, life, struggle, and death («the human condition»), themes that took on a considerable relevance during and after World War II.

By extension, the inclusion of Hunter draws out a contrasting formal aesthetic that dominated the Corcoran exhibition, namely an «uninhibitedly prolific» and «bold» style represented by the expressive brushwork of William Hawkins, Sam Doyle, and Mary T. Smith — as well as Bill Traylor's pictographic drawings — all on view at Intuit.

She's an accomplished figurative painter with a sophisticated aesthetic, complex palette and confident, expressive brushwork.

Known for his expressive brushwork and bold use of color, Coffman's work captures the spirit of the changing landscape.

Abstract Expressionist painting, with its expressive brushwork, is often described as gestural.

A typical example of the artist's agitated and expressive brushwork.

He used oils on paper and board, and his expressive brushwork and bold composition portrayed the raw everyday reality of life on the island.

They exemplify her expressive brushwork, flamboyant palette, and extraordinary draughtsmanship, while the sitters «intense eye contact bears witness the intense rapport she built.

The changing qualities of the natural world are conveyed through his ragged and expressive brushwork.

In both his three - dimensional reliefs and two - dimensional «flat paintings,» he united the crisp, disciplined line of his Constructivist heritage with the expressive brushwork that characterized Bay Area painting at that time.

• Eithne Carr RHA (b. 1946) Dublin - born abstract artist, noted for sensuous images, expressive brushwork.

Other times she will begin with a grid structure then work within that structure, incorporating organic, performative gestures and expressive brushwork.

A sense of conflict between form and chaos underlies the ambiguous shapes and expressive brushwork.

Also lovely is the play between the artist's tight and expressive brushwork, making each work a joyful journey of texture, color, light, and shadow.

In «Sean Scully: The Eighties,» paintings like «By Night and by Day» show how Scully employed moody colors, overlapping layers of pigment and expressive brushwork to create sensual geometrics imbued with romantic explorations of color, light and texture.