Six Crimee is the depiction of six black heads, each highly individualized and expressive, each topped by a nimbus, each hovering above abstract
gestural paint strokes, a row of numbers, graffiti - like scrawls, and some recognizable imagery resembling game boards.
True to the parameters of abstract expressionist painting, you will find a lot of
gestural paint strokes and thickly applied paint, usually favoring line over shape, but each artist represented here is more than a token of the movement, and worthy of inclusion.
Paintings # 650 to # 656, made with acrylic, alkyd, and oil on polyester, display
gestural paint strokes in unearthly pale colors, mostly on a white background.
Comic strips, squirts of oil paint, art magazine illustrations, and a host of textiles jostle for attention, and
gestural paint strokes drawn directly from the vocabulary of Abstract Expressionism carry the same compositional weight as newspaper clippings of car thefts and department store advertisements.
In all the works displayed in «Please Boss Remember Me»,
the gestural paint stroke is visibly present, whether it be realized via painting, print, photography or indeed through multiple processes.
Not exact matches
In «The First of May,» a large canvas from 1960, he
paints a landscape of soft colors dominated by a towering plane tree whose branches and leaves are rendered in a swirl of
strokes evoking Mr. de Kooning's
gestural style.
Ranging from almost pocket - sized
painting to the attention demanding large - scale, 60 x 62 inch canvases, Yossifor's abstract,
gestural paintings show thickly applied
paint, worked across the canvas in sometimes long, sometimes short
strokes.
Lewis (1909 - 1979) filled the
painting with bold,
gestural strokes of black on white to create a flickering pattern that brings to mind a conflagration in a dark forest.
A founding member of the New York School, Jack Tworkov is regarded as one of its defining figures, along with Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline, whose
gestural paintings and dramatic
strokes defined the Abstract Expressionist movement in America.
The exhibition at the New Museum will include a selection of works ranging from the»60s through the present, including a new site - specific rendition of Bernstein's SIGNATURE PIECE (1986/2012),
painted in explosive
gestural strokes directly onto the Lobby Gallery windows.
The bold, textured
gestural stroke, a hallmark of Abstract Expressionist
painting, continues to be an essential tool of expression by artists.
With
strokes both
gestural and hard - edged, the silver
paintings are a heap of contradictions: they catcall only to become invisible; their spontaneity is policed by tape.
Nearby, Sabra Moon Elliot deploys coiling,
gestural brush
strokes across the surfaces of hand -
painted geometric grounds.
In November last year (2013) Shanghai based Chinese artist Zhang Enli immersed his audience into the luscious colours and
gestural strokes of his Space
Painting installation at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London.
Using found flags as a blank canvas, Schnabel applies ink, gesso and spray
paint in
gestural strokes over the existing flag design.
28 Walker's works on paper convey the same powerful
gestural brush
strokes, dense colors, and brooding sensibility of his monumental
paintings.
Saito's works are bright and calligraphic, often covered in
gestural strokes of color, drips of
paint, and stenciled capital letters.
All of the works in the «Flag
Painting» exhibition at Karma (39 Great Jones Street) were created using found flags as a blank canvas, onto which Schnabel applied ink, gesso and spray
paint in
gestural strokes over the existing flag design.
Whereas John Fraser is an intuitive «builder», Treat creates with a lyrical intuitiveness: «The structured image is often obscured by
gestural, often violent
strokes of wax /
paint.
Using her left, non-dominant hand to
paint, she elucidates the experience of creation through
gestural strokes, using her eye to direct, and her hand to resist the formulaic gestures of muscle memory.
To achieve these opposing states, her
paintings are active and dynamic; bold colors and shapes next to neutralized palettes and detailed scratches in the
painting surface; combinations of strong
gestural strokes next to figurative elements; raw textured surfaces adjacent to text and calligraphic details.
He is not afraid to
paint his vision, his
gestural strokes and daring lines and shapes are...
Awalt's
painting process is an organic one and consists of pouring, wiping, sanding and applying large
gestural strokes of
paint until the work achieves a balance between the seen and the felt.
Rubin writes, «I like to begin with loose
paint, working in rapid
gestural strokes across the canvas.
From September 1959 to January 1960 de Kooning sojourned in Italy, working in Rome, where he produced what are now known as his «black and white»
paintings, such as Black and White (Rome) 1959 (fig. 6).24 These are highly reminiscent of Kline's signature style in their combination of bold
gestural abstraction, a black and white palette and structured compositions that consist of a series of emphatic
strokes that are at odds with each other and positioned at angles that create nearly regular geometric shapes, such as triangles and squares.
His
paintings share many qualities with Abstract Expressionism, such as untamed
gestural strokes, broad swathes and splashes of color, and a sense of motion and depth, all affirming the artist's inner intuitive feelings welling up during the creative flow.
Gestural brushstrokes
painted on Glass create vivid movement while capturing the full
stroke of the brush as its settles on the surface of the Glass.
Michele Bubacco has a raw,
gestural approach to
painting, with deliberate
strokes and a reductive palette that captures the anguish and despair of the figures.
In many of his
paintings, organic - looking forms are hemmed in by rigid geomtric planes of color; thick, bold
gestural strokes serve loosely as both directional signposts and visual barriers.
In pieces such as King Oliver,
painted in 1958, his iconic personal style is still evident, as are his
gestural brush
strokes.
During this period his
paintings often consisted of blocks and masses of
gestural strokes and marks of color floating within the picture plane.
Phillis Ideal: Recent
Paintings 2008 - 2012 Phillis Ideal's work is about the materiality of
paint which represents a wide range of abstraction: layers of transparent and thick, brushed and sprayed
paint; collaged fragments imbedded in medium; zeroxed rasta dots, computer graphics, shards of other drawings; as well as, large
gestural brush
strokes.
Joan Snyder first gained public attention in the early 1970s with her
gestural and elegant «
stroke paintings.»
Wright's
paintings, whether abstract expressionistic or color field, have bold colors and compositions,
gestural strokes and the essence of drawing — through his generous use of the formal elements of line and the color black.
A lush
paint application and lively
gestural strokes characterize her recent
paintings, which often exhibit a highly textured surface and dense buildup of pigment.
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.
To look at a Danowski is to immerse oneself in a world of color and texture that is characterized by her
gestural, tactile
paint strokes and her pure delight in the act of mark making.
Vaporous fields of color are composed over a white ground using
gestural strokes of Flashe, a vinyl - based acrylic
paint that is simultaneously translucent and chromatically rich.
Also evident is the merging of painterly and sculptural space, as Stella's objects, mostly hanging on the walls like
paintings, offer steel armatures that appear to function like the
gestural brush
strokes in Kandinski's work.
Stating the obvious, the
paintings are big too, occupying a lot of wall space; the product of such a man, with the
paint larded on in big
gestural strokes.