Not exact matches
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.
Cecily Brown's lush
gestural oil paintings draw inspiration from old master paintings as well as contemporary, political - based imagery, hovering somewhere between
abstraction and representation with her loose,
painterly, blurred brushstrokes.
Both retool
gestural abstraction — «
painterly painting» — with hard - won self - assurance.
Through her
painterly mark making, raw textured surface, large fields of color, and calligraphic details, Fitzgerald creates contemplative
gestural abstractions with an emotional resonance.
In this
painterly approach, she stands out among her contemporaries, creating a unique body of work that lies in between the
gestural abstraction of Jackson Pollock and the restrained Color Field approach of Louis, Noland, and Mark Rothko.
Gottlieb naturally progressedfrom this body of work to his Burst paintings, which were even more simplified and abstracted.Wei writes that Gottlieb's Burst paintings are a «synthesis of
gestural abstraction and color field, the
painterly and the graphic.»
The only important difference is that while Richter utilizes various
painterly range from monochrome, minimal color charts, hard edge to
gestural abstraction, as well as his occasional use of croppings and other mechanical intervention of makings and unmakings, you have always stayed with one basic image and format.