Sentences with phrase «expressive use of line»

In «Prayer,» as in the portfolio of drawings strewn on a pedestal in the galley's center, Gregg shows his strength in the expressive use of line.

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These materials place this epic exhibit in its historical context in five units: Observing the Urban American Scene; The Spirit of Modernism: A New Way of Looking; The Spirit of the Painting: Expressive Use of Color, Line, and Shape; Modernism in New York, 1913; and Armory Art in the Social Studies Classroom.

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.

His paintings are recognizable for thin contour lines and soft forms, in addition to an expressive use of color; though these works did not often contain imagery, they were sometimes based on landscapes and images.

Applying pigments to his canvases using a palette knife, he began to saturate his paintings with expressive swathes of luminous color achieved through wide, rhythmical brushstrokes, which he then contrasted with raw, but graceful, lines that pulsated with emotion — a practice that he would continue to pursue for the remainder of his career.

The play between various lines, the use of expressive marks and the drip of the paint in comparison to the repetitive rhythm or creation of a flat and decorative surface, all covey a different understanding of the world and the different, in a sense, sound of the visual language.

Using an expressive, physical process, she creates line drawings with black paint on paper in dialogue with the architectural forms and signifiers of place she finds around her.

His use of a slightly garish palette, combined with a proliferation of marks and lines of all kinds, confers upon his works an expressive, reinvented classicism, a subjective mannerism, which continues right up to the present.

His work is characterised by the use of expressive lines and imbued with psychological intensity.

Born Cornelis Theodorus Maria van Dongen on January 26, 1877 in Delfshaven, outside of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, the artist's flagrant use of color and expressive line became his signature style, and inspiration gained from international travel set him apart from his peers — the French artists he exhibited with while living in Paris during the early part of the 20th century.

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.

The artist came to believe that what was essential in art — given the diversity of themes or motifs — were two universal requirements: that every work of art has an individual order or coherence, a quality of unity and necessity in its structure regardless of the kind of forms used; and, second, that the forms and colors chosen have a decided expressive physiognomy, that they speak to us as a feeling - charged whole, through the intrinsic power of colors and lines, rather than through the imaging of facial expressions, gestures and bodily movements, although these are not necessarily excluded — for they are also forms.

Christensen's joyful palette and playful use of line and form represent a peak in the expressive capabilities of abstraction.