Sentences with phrase «gestural brush marks»

Bacon was never fond of his own image, thus the circular, gestural brush marks obscure the relatable details on Bacon's face, exposing an attempt to disguise an inner turmoil that the artist wrestles with and tries to resolve through painting.

Typically characterized by precisely edged, unitary geometric forms, rigid planes of cool colours, or just a single colour, applied so as to leave no gestural brush marks, it is often based on a grid design.

Inspired by a stay in Singapore in 2015 where she taught at Yale - NUS College, Werfel began to layer stencils over her gestural brush marks.

In the case of Untitled (Gaeta), the brooding colors and gestural brush marks give painterly expression to hedonic Mediterranean climes.

The tension between subject and content, the way the one reveals and conceals the other, is played out in the «Women» paintings (Woman as Landscape, 1965 - 66, pictured); the subject appears to be a woman composed of gestural brush marks, the content is ineffable and elusive.

Not exact matches

An exciting energy is conveyed in his gestural brush stokes and mark making.

His paintwork plays with our expectations of gestural mark making — drips, pours, and freely brushed elements often being revealed as controlled and lovingly - recreated representations of the «real «thing.

Rendered in thinly applied automotive paint on aluminium sheets folded at the edges to form large industrial - looking trays, these impressionistic works, with their visible brush marks and gestural drips have, as the exhibition's title hints, the feel of half - glimpsed stories, the clarity of their message faded through time.

In 1965 and 1966, he painted a series of big canvases marked with one, two, or three enormous gestural brush strokes, in which every drip and splatter appeared to have been carefully rendered with the precision of a machine.

Gerhard Richter is just the most obvious example of an artist who relies on tools other than brushes to move paint around, though of course there are many who are keen to avoid the expressionistic or autographic, gestural mark.