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.
Not exact matches
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.