Sentences with phrase «gestural marks»

"Gestural marks" refers to the individual brushstrokes or markings made by an artist on a canvas or surface. These marks convey motion, emotion, and the artist's personal expression, adding life and personality to the artwork. Full definition
I have moved further and further away from any kind of gestural mark making because I do nt want to interfere with the viewers experience at all.
This secondary mark can also be seen as a side effect or secondary effect at first maybe unintended but found through thousands and thousands of repetitive gestural mark making.
Often, I have anchored these ephemeral elements with gestural marks, stripes, and blocks of color.
The energy of the landscapes is portrayed by gestural marks and scratches.
The work moves from pure abstract to a type based abstract always utilizing black and white with one other color and working strong gestural marks.
The artist's gestural marks appear as if they were intended for larger surfaces, breaking through borders imposed by the edges of the paper.
No plates but plenty of big gestural marks that rely on chance and accident, with a bit of texture, some collage, and text thrown in for good measure.
The negative space between the panels creates its own gestural mark, but a tension persists, as the two parts would not fit back together perfectly.
Apparently inspired by seeing this phenomenon in his garden, he made the painting with nine white gestural marks touching one another at the top of a luscious gray field.
His paintings are made of a series of small gestural markings; horizontal fields of monochromatic color.
She uses a varied range of gestural marks to create expansive and abstract forms that reveal internal and external body systems.
In prints that prefigured «Water City» he sometimes borrowed gestural marks from his brush drawings of Mexican marketplaces or bathers at the beach to improvise abstractions, much as David Park and Richard Diebenkorn shifted between representational and abstract styles.
Alan Wheatley, 9 April - 23 May 2014 Alan Davie RA has «developed his fluid, playful, improvisatory style on canvas as well as in life», in the words of Fiona Maddocks, who visited the Scottish painter's studio for an article in the latest issue of RA Magazine His primal early paintings, which incorporate signs and gestural marks in helter - skelter arrangements, go on view this week at Alan Wheatley, before displays of his work at Tate Britain and Gimpels Fils open this month.
Beginning with black and white drawings of biomorphic shapes and gestural marks on gridded, solid or patterned grounds, the artist makes color studies that become maquettes for his large - scale canvases.
The exhibition also presents a group of works in which the artist explores reductive painting through gestural mark - making.
Blending abstraction and figuration — common in today's painterly practices — each canvas displays a recurring combination of saturated colors, loose gestural marks, and patterned surfaces.
Ramsden's works are abstract compositions of bold gestural marks, where the paint itself is as much a part of the work as the image it depicts.
Schneider's range as an artist encompasses gestural marks as well as meticulous realism; in each painting, he allows various methods to interweave.
Here, Ryman voids the all - over gestural mark of Abstract Expressionist painters of any subjective referent, and each one of the red, blue, and white brushstrokes denote calculated mechanical decomposition of the color palette rather than immediacy.
From the endlessly entertaining configurations of Persian imagery that populate Aram's vibrant earlier works, only simple decorative motifs are retained here — and these are alternately veiled by layers of monochromatic pigment and disrupted by energetic gestural marks.
The resultant painting may reference gestural marks or codes from the history of Abstraction, but this is coloured by its digital pre-planning.
Her abstract paintings on canvas and paper employ gestural mark - making and colors that are influenced by the palette and forms of the Chilean landscape, the country's pre-historic rock art, and its classical music.
Using gestural marks to render animal forms and figures, Altenstrasser's works make visible unseen layers of the human condition.
Her oeuvre is exemplified by vivid colors, geometric shapes, hard edge lines, and curved, gestural marks painted against white backgrounds.
With them, the mass of gestural marks look like rubble and the bits of color and light, a flicker of hope.
According to the museum, she «layers gestural marks and architectural, geographical, and historical symbols to create large - scale semi-abstract canvases.»
More ubiquitous are small rectangular blocks of solid color, often containing modestly sized but altogether exquisite gestural marks, that seem both to sit on the picture plane and cut an aperture into it.
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.
DeMello's colored pencil drawings are gestural marks inspired by long drives from his home to work and his niece's uninhibited drawing technique (that of a toddler).
Cecily Brown's exhibition at the Drawing Center, the first devoted exclusively to her works on paper, delivered everything we expect from the artist: sex, violence, prurient gestural marks, and bursts of garish color.
Made with Crown Point Press, the largely abstract works combine an array of intaglio techniques and explosive gestural marks.
There are active gestural marks unifying the positive and negative spaces.
Broad, oily brushstrokes take agitated pleasure in both implying and denying gestural mark making.
Hinnemo presents bold and small works on cardboard or canvas with strong gestural marks imparting fluid motion and sense of spontenatine.
Her distinctive compositions convey a sensation of movement, their biomorphic shapes and gestural marks functioning as emotive signifiers of her interior thoughts.
Vivid turquoise complimented by white and strong gestural markings evoke the movement of water and energy.
Working intuitively, Krantz is a painters» painter creating images poised in a balancing act contrasting broadly gestural mark making with delicate linear drawn passages, transparent glazes with thickly opaque sections.
Humphrey, for his part, combines gestural mark making with a distinctive brand of cartoon-esque figuration to produce strange and colorful depictions of human fantasy, mortality, and desire.
The painting is about these things: structure; open vs. closed space; descriptive vs. gestural marks; color, both color as it relates to structure and, as always, the intervals between colors.
In 2006, back in his New York studio, the artist began depicting palm trees from memory, not in his usual graphic way, but using more gestural marks.
«Nancy Lorenz: New Work» (closes on Saturday) Operating in the gap between painting and the decorative arts, Ms. Lorenz's latest efforts add to the history of modernist abstraction by way of seemingly gestural marks and lines fashioned from mother - of - pearl inlaid in surfaces of silver, white gold or palladium.
The paintings fuse the artist's hand - drawn gestural marks that are cast in plaster with Internet - sourced, digitally created backgrounds of stone.
Their work plays with the intersection of intuitive gestural mark making and hard edged design elements while mixing a rigid abstract formalist approach with a reverence for the absurd.
Choke combines photographic fragments with painted passages employing the vigorous brushstrokes and gestural markings typical of Abstract Expressionism.
This is Long's first solo exhibition at the gallery, and sees heavy experimentation with carborundum; a material that Long is using for the first time by means of smearing it hands to produces gestural marks.
Vince Contarino's work is characterized by an ongoing dialogue between gestural marks and graphic forms.
The composition of «Blast II» is based on the striking juxtaposition of tranquility and dynamism: set against a plain white background, a green disc dominates the upper part of the canvas, while hovering above a volatile black mass of gestural marks below.
The results seem more calculated and controlled, ambiguous imagery emerging from expressive gestural marks.
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