Sentences with phrase «gestural approaches to painting»

Both were expats — the Dutch de Kooning in New York and the Chinese Zao in Paris — and the show offers a compelling comparison of two masterful, gestural approaches to painting placed side by side.

Exploring the angular compositions, the artist created Four Square (1956) which also represents one of the finest realizations of his gestural approach to painting.

Michele Bubacco has a raw, gestural approach to painting, with deliberate strokes and a reductive palette that captures the anguish and despair of the figures.

Not exact matches

As disparate as the artistic approaches appear to be in Rothko to Richter, what united the painters throughout the period was a commitment to process, as artists explored a range of brushwork techniques, from audaciously gestural ribbons of built - up paint to vibrating fields and soft washes of color to hard - edged geometries.

The gestural brushstrokes and bold fields of colour demonstrate a sensuous, bodily approach to paint.

It also brought a new, open airiness to the painted surface and was credited with releasing color from the gestural approach and romantic rhetoric of Abstract Expressionism.

Alvarado, Donegan, Hachisuka, Hiro, Hansen, Tuttle and Wurtz each offer discrete challenges to accepted subjects and approaches in modern painting: the nonreferentiality of abstract art, the relationships of artist to model and of artwork to viewer, and the conventional roles of the gestural painter.

In the new work Ford begins to loosen up, combining a more gestural painting approach and larger scale shifts with the tighter, more illustrative technique from previous outings.

Turning away from the approaches of artists like Pollok and Kline during the 1960s, Guston's paintings came to include his own cartoon - style realism, combining elements of gestural abstraction with a return to figuration.

His approach to painting is gestural, with brushstrokes apparently applied with great rapidity, vigour and movement.

More recently, Günther Förg surprised with brighter and more gestural paintings, resulting from an intuitive approach to colour and composition, renewing again his artistic practice.

After he relocated to New York in 1985, he adopted print techniques that suited his gestural approach, such as monotype, where an image is painted directly onto a plate — in Jacklin's case, zinc plates that he inherited from the great American artist Robert Motherwell.

While Jukkala's approach is less immersive than Guston's, more geometric than gestural, his new work harks back to the stark horizons and looming heads that accompany Guston's reflections on the everyday process of painting.

From the 1960s on, Vicente refined his gestural style of painting and collage to reflect a more reductive approach that employed vibrant color harmonies and contrasts.

The Washington artists, including Reed, often followed a strict geometric approach in their work, as they sought to move away from the «gestural» manner of abstract expressionist painting, in which the movement of the artist's hand across the canvas was evident in every brushstroke or drip.

Spanning painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture the show explores «individual approaches to form, color, composition, material exploration and conceptual impetus within hard - edge and gestural abstraction.»

Fridriks» approach could thus be seen as a way out of the predicament which drove Jack Tworkov, one of the first generation action painters, from his «' hot» gestural painting» of the 1950ies and early 60ies to his «' cool» measured painting» after 1966.

When in 1946 New Yorker critic Robert Coates identified an expressive, gestural and subjective approach towards abstract painting in American art, he inadvertently gave the name to a style popularly known as «Abstract Expressionism.»

A reaction against geometric abstraction, it is a type of gestural abstract painting which allows for a more intuitive and active approach to painting.

Contrasting key paintings by Jackson Pollock and David Hockney, the exhibition considers two different approaches to the idea of the canvas as an arena in which to act: one gestural, the other one theatrical.

At Frieze New York, Alexander Gray Associates presents paintings and drawings by Jack Tworkov, charting the evolution of the artist's career from gestural abstract expressionism in the 1950s to a conceptual approach to geometric abstraction beginning in the late 1960s and 1970s.

Anyone at all interested in painting might want to start with the early 20th century in Mayfair and move to Wharf Road for more recent work, witnessing the abundantly various approaches to abstraction over time — conceptual, geometric, gestural, hard - edged, romantic, numinous, optical, comic.