Sentences with phrase «expressive gesture»

I cultivated a range of expressive gestures with the purpose of describing characterization and emotion with paint: I invented painting tools and experimented with countless application methods.

With expressive gestures encompassing the full frame of the canvas, Prince has even painted over the nurse - applying an elusive white mask, dripping with subtle intonations, and bleeding color into her pristine white smock.

Since the advent of Abstract Expressionism followed by Post-painterly Abstraction in the mid-twentieth century, painters and other artists have been liberated to explore large - scale abstraction through expressive gestures, geometric forms, biomorphic shapes, minimal palettes, or new materials.

Without adhering to a fixed style, without using expressive gesture or observational truth, Richter reinvigorated the medium of painting, helping him rise to become one of the most prominent artists of our time.

White Cockatoo and Summertime are typical of this high moment; their lyricism and purity of movements» remind one of the abstract yet deeply expressive gestures of the modern dance.

Pair it with Kinect's movement - based controls, and «now you're free of clickers and light pens to use your hands to for more expressive gestures,» Microsoft says.

A move to Washington in 1962 put him in touch with a group of artists — Tom Downing, Howard Mehring, Kenneth Noland — who were focusing on color over expressive gesture or compositional geometry.

In the present work, however, we can see how this tendency merges with a new sense of impassioned expressive gesture, in which rudimentary facial features begin to take form amidst a wilderness of abstraction.

Geva delves into his psyche through a process of spontaneous mark - making and expressive gesture in the spirit of - but not defined by - abstract expressionism while also channeling the atmosphere of his surroundings.

In its intensification of modernist tropes the group of paintings in Yes Yes Yes & Pink Flamingo brings expressive gesture and emphatic materiality to the discipline of painting along with references to macho clichés and occasional obscenities.

While Cruzvillegas captures minute and intimate expressive gestures, the work of Dr. Lakra takes this to a further extreme.

The raw edge of rock - and - roll sits side by side with formal subtlety; expressive gesture accompanies sleek restraint.

Lines, objects, symbols, colors, geometric and organic shapes are at once expressive gestures and reflections of multi-layered psychogeographic landscapes buzzing with visual expressions of audio and non-verbal communication signals.

Kwak's installation can be related to abstract expressionism, since the lines she makes are strongly expressive gestures.

Moved by an enthusiasm for intense colour and bold expressive gestures, Thomas Olbricht has spent the last 30 years collecting abstract art in a wide variety of styles.

Martin bows to Abstract Expressionism with his obvious focus on process and the intensely expressive gesture that runs throughout his work.

The ghost of Abstract Expressionism hovers behind the surface of paintings such as Punch Drunk, Ice Age, Sock in the Eye and Coral Krylon, each of which subverts the notion of the grand expressive gesture.

Unflinchingly hard - edged and eschewing expressive gesture, the concentric squares repudiate the notion of the artist's hand as a signifier of meaning, yet it is clear that Stella's work grows out of his New York School forebears.

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.

Have pop culture and globalization co-opted the wonderfully expressive gestures of the black America female?

When Cy Twombly's work first emerged in the early 1950s many critics scoffed at the deeply expressive gestures, scribbles, drips, and scratches that have come to firmly secure his place as one of the most innovative artists of the 20th century.

Popular during the late 1940s and 1950s, this style of abstract art is part of (and to this extent synonymous with) the broader movement of Art Informel: the only difference is that Tachisme is focused exclusively on the type of expressive gesture used by the artist.

Not only does this become an early bone of contention in the power struggle between Harry and Paul, it also gives Swinton an extended opportunity to indulge in the graceful, expressive gesturing of the silent - movie actor, or, perhaps more appropriately, contemporary dance.

Even from inches away, you can see how it ties the whole scene into a single, expressive gesture, giving it almost as much motion and continuity as a glimpse of real life.

Gray's youth, spent in a politically turbulent Northern Ireland informs the intensity of the movement — forceful, expressive gestures; thick gouges at the eyes; and claw marks in the spines of the nudes.

The expressive gestures, loose and atmospheric in many cases, imbue the works with a kinetic energy that is almost cinematic (in 1893, the cinema was invented).

However, she avoids the big, expressive gestures of Jean - Michel Basquiat and so many others from those years.

In a less colourful perspective, in the extreme South of Brazil Karin Lambrecht (based in Porto Alegre), deals with materials like blood, oil, golden leaves and texts in light bidimensional compositions and objects full of expressive gestures.

Through the use of collage, expressive gesture, and computer - generated imagery, Oehlen examines the way that our identies are formed as mediated accretions of images.

Whereas the drawings of many painters are often pared down in terms of color to focus predominantly on the use of line, Mitchell's drawings unite vibrant color with expressive gesture and form a powerful body of work in their own right.

At every stage of his career, Tworkov is an artist of touch, of the expressive gesture, and even as his gestures merge into fields of light we can sense his improvisatory impulses.

In his paintings, Julian Lethbridge (b. 1947) explores the materiality of paint, expressive gesture, texture, and pattern.

While stark tonalities reveal Gokita's investment in graphic illustration and portrait photography, the thick and expressive gestures that contour Gokita's figures reveal the expressive pleasure of painting, tying him less to Pop and more to the Neo-Expressionist painters of the 1980s and»90s (Anselm Kiefer and Gerhard Richter come to mind).

Their paintings were characterized not by the grand, expressive gestures and brushwork of their Abstract Expressionist colleagues, including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, but rather by subtleties in color, form, and composition.

Each layer is a captured moment, the expressive gesture and activity reflected on its surface.

Through implied constraint and expressive gesture, she confronts political and private challenges while working with larger - scaled paintings than past works.

Each of the five portrayals shows Baker with a wide smile, expressive gestures, and costumed in her iconic skirt made up of artificial bananas.

Grids, predefined with the aid of tape, are crossing layers of color applied with an expressive gesture, creating the visual effect of a multi-layered depth.

«I was having problems feeling connected to the idea of the expressive gesture, that anything that motivated a mark on a canvas would come from something within me.»

Minimalist avatars Robert Morris, Donald Judd and Dan Flavin (among others) used their art history degrees and general verbosity to set the tone for how we think about hard - edge geometry in art: industrial, cerebral, and devoid of expressive gesture.

Denying himself expressive gesture, Close builds shapes and tonal variations within a working grid that provides the structure for large - scale, close - up portraits.

I selected 40 objects from the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and asked individuals to participate in a «dialogue» with a work of art, each taking an expressive gesture and gaze that embodied their emotional response to the art object... Slow - motion cinematography, frozen gestures, and an unseen moving stage comment on the active / passive quality of the interactions.

His emphasis on painterly, expressive gestures, and the churning, mercurial process of painting itself link him to the concerns of Willem de Kooning (American, born the Netherlands, 1904 - 1997), Jackson Pollock (American, 1912 - 1956), and other midcentury artists.

Only its expressive gestures were set to music and his monologue is punctuated by loud thuds of the hands on the lectern.

Despite Geary's avoidance of expressive gesture, or her medium's preclusion of it, the new paintings fall into a kind of theatricality.

In her paintings, which were rendered with expressive gesture, Semmel continued to employ the rich, vibrant colors — evocative of her training as an abstract painter — for her figures.