The word
"gestural" describes something that relates to or involves gestures, which are specific body movements or signals made to communicate or express something.
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Wind in Field dates from 1957, and illustrates his form
of gestural abstraction.
It's currently filled with a diverse array of
gestural paintings that complement each other well with a strong ecological theme running through it.
This language got the name white writing and it combines all - over painting with
gestural abstraction.
I have moved further and further away from any kind of
gestural mark making because I do nt want to interfere with the viewers experience at all.
Often, I have anchored these ephemeral elements
with gestural marks, stripes, and blocks of color.
Yeah, but I'm not interested
in gestural abstraction as a thing.
Over the course of his career, he evolved from creating abstract
gestural works, in which he drew inspiration from the natural world, to a pure form of abstraction.
Working in a loosely
gestural style, she often depicts people of color set amidst muted backgrounds.
A reaction against geometric abstraction, it is a type of
gestural abstract painting which allows for a more intuitive and active approach to painting.
During this period his paintings often consisted of blocks and masses of
gestural strokes and marks of color floating within the picture plane.
Her paintings draw on various traditions of abstraction
from gestural and geometric, hard - edge styles.
This includes drawings from the 1950s to the 1970s, his
more gestural paintings from the 1990s, as well as a slew of recent works.
He believed that ideas, feelings and the subconscious were best communicated through the bold forms and
gestural lines of abstract art.
Hand crafted of aluminum or sterling silver, these interactive objects become instruments
for gestural behavior.
The energy of the landscapes is portrayed
by gestural marks and scratches.
This show provides a platform for their work that features precise, powerful lines, as well
as gestural patterns.
His line work is effortless and loose in the best tradition of
gestural drawing.
Major work from this period is characterized by the use of
gestural brush strokes in flame - like color.
He leaves behind a remarkably if controversial body of work, that has become hugely influential to
gestural painters working today.
Self - taught, he started his artistic career as a painter,
making gestural, abstract works.
Beginning in 1979, he worked with two dolphins, teaching one an artificial acoustic language and the other an artificial
gestural language.
Through gestural movement, gravity and paint, the «essence» of these moments is captured and offered as a form of communication to others.
Their attention was focused primarily on conveying the emotion of a pleasant moment through the use of colour and a spontaneous even
gestural technique.
Emerging at the height of the British Pop movement, his early practice emphasized the figure, while experimenting with expressive
gestural applications of oil paint.
The figures are always meticulously rendered, each with his or her own thoughtfully assembled outfit and subtle facial and
gestural expressions, implying a variety of personalities and myriad internal nuances.
The input method requires little effort from users and introduces minimal fatigue over other input methods that require more extreme
gestural movements.
He
creates gestural abstract paintings informed by an awareness of surface and physicality.
Most recently, her large -
scale gestural paintings capture one movement within a square canvas.
An example of her later style of
gestural energy — more structured and detailed — this work communicates its subject, a primal cat, through the animal's intensity more than its form.
These are conceptual and site - specific installations and kinetic pieces; there are fully rendered figurative works and
large gestural works in both temporary and permanent materials.
They are
not gestural, they are not heroic, and they are closer in size to standard windows than walls.
So there has been a transition in your work from painting
loose gestural abstractions and color fields to incorporating new imagery of vegetation.
The work moves from pure abstract to a type based abstract always utilizing black and white with one other color and working
strong gestural marks.
The 1970s marked new work in collage and a partial return to the more
gestural handling of her earlier career.
Apparently inspired by seeing this phenomenon in his garden, he made the painting with nine
white gestural marks touching one another at the top of a luscious gray field.
At 73, she has spent more than 50 years pitching
dynamic gestural painting up against the cool austerity of the grid.
A variety of media are considered,
including gestural and geometric abstraction, assemblage, minimalism, and pop imagery.
You seem to avoid both these pitfalls because of the structure with its rhythm and
gestural forces; your color and marks lend a visually poetic sensibility to these paintings.
No plates but plenty of
big gestural marks that rely on chance and accident, with a bit of texture, some collage, and text thrown in for good measure.
More than 30 two - dimensional works, ranging from
gestural sketches to large - scale charcoal and pastel compositions, will also be on view.
«There's something a machine can make in the right hands that speaks to my sensibility, more than the
purely gestural,» he said.
His paintings are made of a series of
small gestural markings; horizontal fields of monochromatic color.
In the past few years, your style has shifted significantly, moving
toward gestural abstraction.
Much recent research on communication between dogs and humans has shown that dogs understand both our verbal and
gestural commands, a fact well known to dog owners.
This research often lies in emerging use modalities, such as wearable computing, touch interfaces and
gestural interaction.
The negative space between the panels creates its
own gestural mark, but a tension persists, as the two parts would not fit back together perfectly.
The first is playful, consisting of
colorful gestural abstractions with bold rhythms and vigorous brush strokes in a range of sizes.
Even though one knows the painting surface must be planned beforehand, the shape of the supports feel
gestural because they seem to respond to the gesture, mark, and shape they contain.
His later work explored a language of forms found in this landscape, with a deeply personal and
gestural script embedded within his abstractions.