Sentences with phrase «gestural lines»

I heard a young artist call Brice Marden «Slowhand» once, at a time when his gestural lines looked a little flat - footed and lock - stepped at the edges - arch as opposed to airy.

Comprised of broken and altered scientific diagrams overlaid with finely drawn, kinetic gestural lines, it directly incorporates Ritchie's source materials and evokes the chaos of the overwhelming amount of information available in this digital world.

The artist's quick gestural lines approach abstraction, appearing to situate the body within a subtle landscape.

Fowler begins each work by creating networks of graphite gestural lines on multiple sheets of paper.

Siskind radicalized the medium by showing photography's potential for to create abstract art; this fit perfectly with the gestural lines, abstract forms, and other themes being explored on canvas in New York City by the Abstract Expressionists.

Nelisse was trained by master level artists, Gifford «Nick» Nicolaides and Herbert Dubin from the New York Art Students League, to take risks by using unpredictable colors and broad gestural lines.

Looking at the compositions of these paintings, their gestural lines, kinetic compositions and formal repetition almost appear to be writing: perhaps quick notes dashed off on a piece of scrap paper or a notation system for something that isn ́t self - evident.

I have since relaxed in this apprehension, and have begun to introduce horizontal gestural lines by physically marking the surfaces of the walls, which connects to other interests in the sublime present in other bodies of work.

The sculptures of the Herd series evoke gazelles, antelopes, buffalos, elephants, and birds in elegant gestural lines of neon light.

He believed that ideas, feelings and the subconscious were best communicated through the bold forms and gestural lines of abstract art.

In his paintings, Murillo pieces together sections of canvas covered with dense gestural lines, words and images.

The composition was dominated by gestural lines that constructed a vaguely cartoonish baroque underpainting

Voigt forms relationships among them through a combination of sweeping, gestural lines representing the flight of a bird through the air and carefully measured notations drawn with a compass or straight - edge to denote quantitative data such as temperature changes and cardinal directions (N, S, E, W).

The artist's most recent abstract works on canvas and plywood feature gestural lines influenced by calligraphic writing.

Cain continues to explore where painting can go by employing varying techniques in the work to create airbrushed and gestural lines, splashes and stripes, and geometric forms.

In these paintings, gestural lines sinuate around, sometimes emerging into vague shapes, other times into obscure forms, creating a rich schema of marks, symbols and colors - self - contained and relating to each other within the boundaries of the canvas.

Adam's gestural lines harken to the pared down honesty of primitive human communication before language... of simply watching each other's movements in order to facilitate understanding.

To represent their own perception of sound, families will have the opportunity to interpret different musical compositions through color, shape, and gestural line.

The gestural line of the edge is echoed in the naturalistic dripping line of a thick glaze which flows over most of the piece.

Zimmermann's paintings are based on the marriage of meditative fields, architectonic structures and an organic gestural line.

The vibrantly colored female figure in Jackson's Untitled (3.8.83) bears a resemblance to the powerful women de Kooning incorporated into his rich, colorful fields of gestural line and stroke.

However, unlike realist approaches, expressionism plays upon the evocative power of exaggerated color, distorted shape, and gestural line.

The black gestural line in the left forearm of the figure in «Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump» is «written,» as in a graffitero's script, and «NEEET» is inscribed as though on a wall to the left.

To that end the gallery presents an exhibition of two sculptures, both from 1994, covered with patterned cloth and a group of watercolors emphasizing the gestural line and centrality of color in Baselitz's oeurve.

In Number 7, 1951, Pollock's sweeping, gestural line moves across the page with a vigorous, muscled handling, yet the pent - up energy transmitted through Pollock's hand doesn't devolve into utter turmoil, but rather suspends itself in delicate balance against the bareness of the paper support.

In 1947 Rothko began eliminating all references to the observed world from his paintings, and he stopped relying on the drawn, gestural line as a vehicle of expression.

Not exact matches

At his best, Linklater resembles John Ford in his insistence on each shot being a vignette of portraiture, gestural clarity, & clarity of line deliverance, a little movie in & of itself.

Not exhibited since Donegan's first solo exhibition at Elizabeth Koury Gallery in New York in 1993, High Line Art presents Guide (1993) and Sunflower (1993), two short works that showcase Donegan's signature quick, gestural style.

In Chestnut (1955), the painting's white field is broken along the center, as if a chestnut tree were pushing through the pigment; and in Red, blue, black (1957), the thick, dark red ground gives way at the center to black calligraphed lines concentrated within dense gestural brushwork.

Mary Didoardo's visceral, gestural abstractions are brought to life through swirling lines, textures, and colors.

1989 Abstract Expressionism: Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles (December 2, 1989 — January 13, 1990) The Gestural Impulse, 1945 — 60: Paintings from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art / Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York (September 29 — December 1) Barnard Collects: The Educated Eye, Salander - O'Reilly Galleries, New York (September 28 — October 31) A Decade of American Drawings: 1980 — 1989, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles (July 15 — August 26) Art in Place: 15 Years of Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (July 7 — October 15) Works on Paper, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York (June 13 — August 11) Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Brookville, New York (May 24 — June 28).

Formally, the works are defined by Hull's distinctive and characteristic visual style - angular figures, bold, graphic lines and marks in black, contrasted with gestural abstraction in vivid, sometimes shocking, color, and recurring imagery — ships and nautical themes, and court jester or clown - like figures alone or interacting in totemic or frieze - like compositions.

Julie Mehretu's intricate assemblages of lines, washes and gestural marks articulate familiar yet often unidentifiable linguistic and architectonic traces, fragments of systems for the viewer to grab onto.

Natural or mechanic, gestural or rigid, the painted line is explored from past to present.

These paintings are characterised by strong underlays of colour and a gestural use of line.

Influenced by Minimalism, as well as a wide range of European and Asian art movements, Kauffman worked in a clean - lined aesthetic that was by turns gestural and evocatively sensual.

Dubuffet and de Kooning's gestural explorations into the human psyche reflect the emotive qualities of line and form.

From the gestural abstraction painting of Cosmic Slop «Black Orpheus» (in which black soap and wax are slathered in high relief) to the arcane photographic processes used to make lines of feet look like dental x-rays in Untitled, Manumission Papers, Johnson does it all.

Following the developments of Cubist and Futurist painting — in which the natural world was translated into a stark pictorial language of shapes, lines, and angles — Russia was one of the primary breeding grounds of pure abstraction, with Wassily Kandinsky doing much to popularize geometric art before gravitating to the gestural camp in later years.

Bowdoin's towering moth drawings, lighter - than - air monoliths, pair loose, gestural brushwork with delicately filigreed lines.

Fuchs has produced an extraordinary body of work that is a testament to the meaning and potency of painting, ranging from small to large - scale works, and characterized by an expansive vocabulary of soft lines, gestural brushwork, and a subdued, muted palette.

The artists have not collaborated; rather, the connections reside in their similar abilities to blur, shift and distort the lines between fine art and conceptual craft, the historical and new, the handmade and digitally output, the gestural and mechanical, the practical and experimental... the list of dichotomies goes on in this dialogue on distortion.

Alyse Rosner's recent paintings from 2015 represent a further exploration into her unique confluence of natural form with graphic gestural fluctuating lines, utilizing a palette of colors reflecting the toxicity of a punished Earth.

Versteeg pays attention to the aesthetic details of this presentation: for example, rather than hiding his wiring, he uses conspicuously colored cables that, when seen against the wall, mimic the lines of gestural drawing or painting, and in Boom (Fresher Acconci), his selection of an old - style 20 - inch monitor to display the images suggests the rapid rate of change in computer technology.

Vertical, gestural composition in ink and acrylic paint with large areas of turquoise and ochre and spontaneous calligraphic lines of red, indigo and bright yellow.

In Eye to Eye, Marioni's glowing paintings are surrounded with works by artists from the late - 19th century to the present who employ color, light, line, and gestural marks as their primary means of expression.

Upon closer observation, however, the viewer is confronted with the typical gestural elegance of lines with unexpected beginnings and abrupt endings, tormented overpainting and the obvious enjoyment of attacking the paper with forceful rubbings of pastel crayons.

Her gestural brushstrokes seem at once violent and poetic, capturing the energy and gesture of her signature calligraphic line caught and held in a quiet equilibrium.

As art critic Natilie Hareen wrote in Art Forum about Monzon's work, «Seemingly all the formal painting devices from the last fifty years have been brought to bear in Monzon's canvases: the gestural brushstroke; the grid as found compositional device; the chance - determined stain; and the diagrammatic line.»

Her gestural work explores, line, shape, val...