"Gestural brushstrokes" refers to the energetic and expressive way an artist uses their paintbrush to create broad and dynamic marks on a canvas.
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These three factors led to the development of his signature style of abstract expressionist painting, characterized by energetic
gestural brushstrokes of quick - drying black and white enamel, and applied with house - painters» brushes up to eight inches wide.
An early member of the New York School and a first - generation Abstract Expressionist, Jack Tworkov painted
with gestural brushstrokes, emphasizing texture and line.
In addition to being done on aluminum, they do not rely
on gestural brushstrokes; the one big splash of poured white paint I saw in one painting was a solid puddle spreading into tentacles of insubstantiality, while evoking the harsh, ghostly light of computer screens.
Cage observed that the monochrome surfaces of the White Paintings, uninflected
by gestural brushstrokes, reflected changes in light and shadows in their surrounding environment.
Her technique transforms opaque and blank Minimalist canvases into surfaces on which hard - edged stripes or blocks and
gestural brushstrokes seem to appear and disappear.
For example, in Around The Park, 1991, the circular island of greenery — surrounded by a sidewalk filled with people, lanes of cars, and walls of buildings isstretched to its spatial limits
through gestural brushstrokes that suggest a distorted angle of perception.
For the abstracts he preferred an uncontrolled, almost random approach, making compositions in which the metal cut - out shapes were more akin to
painted gestural brushstrokes, as in Breakout, 1996, Round Two, 1997, and Pink Pearl, 1998.
Her practice began with her early studies of New York Abstract Expressionism and American Minimalism and developed into a highly refined vocabulary that merges traits normally thought to be irreconcilable:
gestural brushstrokes reminiscent of early influences like Willem de Kooning; precise geometric compositions evoking Josef Albers; and a palette reduced through Donald Judd - like discipline.
With the key focus optimizing all that is nature and its many contrasts, the color arrangement transpires as being chromatically saturated in a higher key, where
expressive gestural brushstrokes are applied throughout in a rich arrangement.
Followed up with the use of
broad gestural brushstrokes and a vivid palette of contrasting colors, the rectangular picture frame was even more emphasized pushing his revolutionary idea forward.
Joan Mitchell (born: Chicago, 1925) is known for the compositional rhythms, bold coloration, and
sweeping gestural brushstrokes of her large and often multi-paneled paintings.
A pivotal figure in the development of Abstract Expressionism, Jack Tworkov radically shifted his painting style in the late 1960s, as he moved away from
overtly gestural brushstrokes to controlled diagrammatic abstraction, as seen on SS - 68 # 2 (1968).
Typical of Abstract Expressionist work, this print
combines gestural brushstrokes with lively splatters — here, thick swaths of color are punctuated by speckled drips; the result is an entirely stirring and evocative composition.
Parsons» paintings from the late 1950s onward demonstrate her passion for creative play through
impulsive gestural brushstrokes and brightly colored shapes.
Her scatterings of dots and squares are frequently interpreted as pixellated images, and her aversion to
heavy gestural brushstrokes aligns her with Albert Oehlen and other early adopters of screen - mediated painting.
However, while the popular trend was towards the
masculine gestural brushstroke, Martin honed her practice to become more reductive, methodical, and geometric.
And in the 1970's, his style became more fluid and contemplative, as can be seen in the work... Whose Name Was Written in Water (1975), in which the use of paint diluted with oil yielded longer and
more gestural brushstrokes.
[20] In this new abstract format Wesselmann preferred a random approach, and made compositions in which the metal cut - outs
resembled gestural brushstrokes.
There were striking similarities in the work produced from the two cities in terms of
thick gestural brushstrokes laid down in bold colors on large canvases.
In «Obscura,» Smit
fuses gestural brushstrokes, splashed and splattered paint, and captivating pigments of color with a realistic representation of the heads and faces of his subjects on a large scale.
Messer's work, so apparently spontaneous or impulsive in its emphasis on highly
dramatic gestural brushstrokes and intense color, is, in fact, carefully considered.
An pioneer of first generation Abstract Expressionism, Philip Guston broke ranks with his peers toward the end of the 1960s when he transitioned to applying his
rich gestural brushstrokes and jittery lines to figurative subjects, often derived from the gritty urban visions that came to the artist during insomniac nights of coffee drinking and cigarette smoking.
A common thread among these oil paintings is Dzubas's
grand gestural brushstrokes, which prominently transform throughout Dzubas's career, becoming an undeniable signature of Dzubas's works.
In a process she describes as «integrated painting,» Leduc works on - site to
create gestural brushstrokes on translucent substrates, producing a visual collaboration between paint, landscape, and vantage point.
Paul Thek's expressive seascape, Sea series (1975) makes use of an unconventional material — a spread from the International Herald Tribune − as the surface
for gestural brushstrokes.
Acquired directly from Leo Castelli by the legendary post-war art collectors Burton and Emily Tremaine, the burnished surface of Telluride is a glowing celebration of the strict geometrics with which Stella sought to banish the
wild gestural brushstrokes that had been the mainstay of much of the artistic production of the previous decade.
In Untitled (Alabama),
bold gestural brushstrokes of stark white paint coalesce into a procession of figures marching across a black color field.
Just as a quickly drawn line becomes an architectural form in Fischer's installation,
gestural brushstrokes become animate in his recent paintings, which also play with space and scale.
While de Kooning, like the «action» painters of the time,
used gestural brushstrokes, most her work was figurative and representational, and rarely pure abstraction.
The unique painting process of New York artist Chris Hood is based
on gestural brushstrokes, cartoon motifs and spontaneous slips.
Characterised
by gestural brushstrokes and the impression of spontaneity, abstract expressionism was developed in the 1940s.
Lichtenstein has covered the «canvas» side with broad,
gestural brushstrokes reminiscent of those by Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and other Abstract Expressionists.
An important yet overlooked figure of the Bay Area Abstract Expressionist movement, Gechtoff was known for producing vibrant large - scale works featuring
expressive gestural brushstrokes and thickly - applied layers of oil paint.
As pivotal figure in the development of Abstract Expressionism, Jack Tworkov radically shifted his painting style in the late 1960s, as he moved away from
overtly gestural brushstrokes to controlled diagrammatic abstraction, as seen on SS - 68 # 2 (1968).
Joan Mitchell, (born February 12, 1926, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. — died October 30, 1992, Paris, France), American painter known for her large abstract paintings made with
colourful gestural brushstrokes.
From the late 1940s onward, her paintings conveyed her passion for spontaneity and creative play through
impulsive gestural brushstrokes and organic forms.
In 1952, he and Noland visited painter Helen Frankenthaler and were inspired by the luminous abstract works she created through staining the canvas rather than
through gestural brushstrokes.