«The movements of the fighters and the physical reality of blood and sinew are virtually indistinguishable
from painterly gestures embedded in the pigments themselves.»»
The artist liberates the composition
from painterly gesture and instils it with a powerful presence; in veiling the tangible object he forms his strikingly simple yet buoyant abstract composition.
Not exact matches
Works
from the early eighties, nineties and noughties such as Formica Red (1983); Timex (1987); Charles Eames Chair (2002) e SMEG (2002) are iconic examples of Bertrand Lavier's ability to morph object - hood through the
painterly gesture, challenging and experimenting the Duchampian concept of Ready Made.
Decades conflate in single works that combine fragments of the drawings
from the 1930s, loose
gestures toward the
painterly whirlwind of the»50s, and the tight edges of the»70s.
On the third floor, Ken Okiishi's
painterly gestures cover video monitors playing moments
from cable TV, as if to put abstraction in context of contemporary culture.
Hofmann made works of astonishing variety, crossing the boundaries between allusion and invention, reference and abstraction, in paintings ranging
from the broadly invoked interiors, still lifes, and landscapes of his first American years, to eerie surrealizing «creatures,» minimal geometric abstractions, and finally, the bold confrontations of pulsating rectangles of thick paint — the acclaimed «Slabs» — and the orchestrations of free - floating, varied
painterly gestures that characterized his last years.
In the earliest period,
from 1980 to late 1982, Basquiat used
painterly gestures on canvas, often depicting skeletal figures and mask - like faces that expressed his obsession with mortality.
These exaggerated
gestures, floating on top and seemingly disconnected
from the field below, are the closest connection here to
painterly Abstract Expressionism rather than the integrated field.
Viewers will observe different speeds of artistic creation,
from slow, meticulous brushstrokes to rapid,
painterly gestures.
Instead of a direct translation
from tablet screen to paper surface, Fischer's process imbues the digital image with an analog tactility; in some places, his
painterly gestures loosen, revealing patches of the shiny aluminum beneath.
From afar Veronica's canvases read as so many familiar
gestures of
painterly abstraction, involving the surrounding wall and floor and the drops, splashes and marks that are created in the process of painting.
Bookending «
From Lens to Eye to Hand» are hyper - realistic works by later generations of Photorealists including Yigal Ozeri, Raphaella Spence, Bertrand Meniel and Anthony Brunelli, who demonstrate the ways current technological advances in digital image - making and computers impact the
painterly gesture.
Pat Steir's hand - painted monoprints introduce
gestures from her
painterly lexicon into the printmaking medium.
These deliberate and calculated
gestures, which Richter employs to both apply and subsequently remove passages of pigment
from the surface, are at the heart of his
painterly practice, designed to dissect the nature of painting and produce a work that is part chance, part inspiration, part creation and part destruction.
Known for his paintings Jules has rendered scenes
from everyday life, geometric compositions, and abstracted symbols incorporating
painterly gestures that show his true alliance with the brush and the process of pushing paint.
But before you really begin painting
from what I gather
from the reproductions even that one, the first one, the figure by the window — the collage element becomes very important, and in a sense it's a denial of
painterly gesture.
Pairing a figurative style with self - generated imagery and formal composition appropriated
from her photographic practice, Cedar's paintings combine
painterly gestures with articulated surfaces, oblique perspective shifts with flatness — the scenes wavering between depiction, memory, and fantasy.
Richter counters the
gesture of Abstract Expressionism with completely neutral surfaces and vibrant textures that he does not draw
from his subjective responses but, conceptually,
from the fundamental possibilities of
painterly forming.
Renowned for her formative participation in the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1950s, Hartigan's paintings
from the latter decades of her career blend figurative content with her signature sensibility of vibrant color, active
gesture and
painterly freedom.
In this view,
painterly styles, schools, and
gestures all exist free
from the limitations of time, history, and, perhaps especially, Modernism's imperious dictate about always having to change style in order to be Modern, novel, and worthy.
The eleven oil paintings on view here spring
from the expressive potential of contained
painterly gestures.
Piene sought to create objective art by eliminating any
painterly gestures from his work, and increasingly focused on the intersections of art, nature, and technology.
A typical Crow painting quotes a male artist's work or style (Bruce Nauman, Keith Haring, Dash Snow) and imposes it over a physical space, ranging
from a hunting lodge to a Vegas casino,
from an oil patch to the gardens of Versailles, all done in blazing colors and dramatic
painterly gesture.
What's more, the equation of Milhazes and Kahlo elides the readily apparent stylistic differences between the latter, a self - mythologizing diarist, and the former, a discreetly Matissean sensualist so disengaged
from self - reference that she cloaks even the traces of her own
painterly gesture.
Throughout the rest of his career, Hantaï devoted himself to developing new techniques that slowed down or automated the
painterly gesture — a concept that stemmed in part
from the early influences of Surrealist automatism, Pollock's Abstract Expressionism and Matisse's cut - outs.
This artist's book reproduces 60 «print - painting» works by Wade Guyton, in which he layers reproductions
from books and art magazines, tweaking the act of stacking into a
painterly gesture.
That particular genre is in many respects the polar opposite of uptight perfection, with its canvases rumpled and littered by everything
from cigarette butts to charcoal to sand — all of which would be anathema to the clean lens and the pristine print — yet here Labatte slyly rearticulates the
painterly gestures in an ecstatic series of photographic prints titled «Spotting,» 2014.
From the beginning, Fish adapted commonplace objects to her painterly concerns, insisting that the subject matter was relatively unimportant, and that meaning came from tone, gesture, color, light, scale and composit
From the beginning, Fish adapted commonplace objects to her
painterly concerns, insisting that the subject matter was relatively unimportant, and that meaning came
from tone, gesture, color, light, scale and composit
from tone,
gesture, color, light, scale and composition.
Another painting, Insile (2013) built up
from a photo image of Believers» Palace amid civilian buildings, activates its surface with
painterly ink
gestures, blurring and effacing the ruins beneath.
By allowing
painterly gestures to coexist with thin, poured layers in a wide range of colors in all manner of hues and saturations, Mason is able to amplify her colors — which are infused with forms that derive
from both memory and free association with concrete surroundings in nature — while embracing their complex tonalities.