Sentences with phrase «gestural application of color»

What he and Monet share, that followed from his Rouen cathedral series and the exploration of light, is the gestural application of color and the performative element applied to the act of painting.

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untitled, 1958, culminates this style, influenced no doubt by Mitchell's sojourns in France, and displays the highly gestural application of paint and brilliant gem - colored hues for which she is now acclaimed.

Interestingly, the practitioners of the Color Field saw themselves apart from the Abstract Expressionists because they stayed clear of emotional, mythic or the religious content, allowing the personal and gestural painterly application to take precedent.

Yet in its direct application of color and modestly gestural assertions it seems oddly contemporary.

The term was coined by writer, curator and Los Angeles Times art critic Jules Langsner, along with Peter Selz, in 1959, to describe the work of painters from California, who, in their reaction to the more painterly or gestural forms of Abstract expressionism, adopted a knowingly impersonal paint application and delineated areas of color with particular sharpness and clarity.

Like her husband, the Abstract Expressionist painter Willem de Kooning, Elaine de Kooning was interested in abstracting the human form through gestural mark - making with black lines and the direct application of pure, unmixed paint colors juxtaposed, rather than blended, on the surface.

Through a variety of application methods Edwards works the surface of his paintings to set static backdrops through combinations of gestural abstraction, smooth gradients, and flat color.

This was the period when Scully's paintings pushed forward his many early attempts to retain a vivid and exaggerated dynamic edge, when his coy and brilliant hedonism found its écriture, and when earthy bands of color became wider and more expressive as if to protrude into a deeper tonality through his pulsating, gestural applications.