Sentences with phrase «gestural bravura»

Many of her works, with their inky spots, patches of impasto, and curlicue or zigzag strokes, appear to share affinities with ancient writing systems or with the gestural bravura of classic Abstract Expressionism.

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«Hassel Smith was an eminent abstract expressionist painter who made pictures with vigorously drawn lines and gestural marks that activated a picture's total surface with a wild improvisational bravura,» said art historian Peter Selz.
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