Sentences with phrase «fluid brushwork»
Chantal Joffe is well known for her powerful portraits paintings, celebrated for their fluid brushwork and psychological charge.
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It's fascinating to see these paintings in «the flesh» because you simultaneously take in the strong scaffolding structural design and architectonic, reductive form, explored with very fluid, sensitive brushwork.
Unlike the forceful brushwork of her male counterparts, Frankenthaler's motifs are much more fluid and harmonious, lending her work a rich and poetic quality.
They course through her white sheets with the width of brushwork, the fluid motion of a pen, and a life of their own, which makes sense once you recognize them as blue ink on drafting film.
He continued, «Although Aliriza's extremely tactile paint application can remind one of the British painter Frank Auerbach, her brushwork is more fluid in the manner of de Kooning and her forms have a way of slipping in and out of abstraction.»
These modular forms become units to be deployed; abutted, inset and interlocked against each other, whilst the choice of an aluminium ground keeps the brushwork fluid, capturing the rhythm of the artist at work.
Her surfaces are very physical, the brushwork — sketchy, exuberant or fluid — openly declared.
He's great on wet paint, especially in his descriptions of Albert Oehlen's brushwork --» grids of dots, and passages of fluid, slashing brush marks «bundled» like kindling... veils, which are often made from dirty turps and some interesting, jewelescent earth tones, give the paintings the feeling of being seen from inside a sock.»
Winters» exhibition treats the viewer to a panoply of visual delights: thick and washy surfaces; fluid, broken, and scratchy brushwork; and a palette that leans toward moody earth tones but also includes bright primaries, sometimes within the limits of a single painting.
Paralleling developments made by Pollock, Rothko and De Kooning, Davie experimented with abstraction throughout the 1950s, producing canvasses such as Domain of the Serpent, 1951, which juxtaposes geometric shapes with the beginnings of his fluid gestural brushwork.
She has gradually loosened her paint surface into a more fluid medium with open brushworks while reopening an extended exploration of her emblematic star imagery.