Sentences with phrase «gestural painterly application»

Interestingly, the practitioners of the Color Field saw themselves apart from the Abstract Expressionists because they stayed clear of emotional, mythic or the religious content, allowing the personal and gestural painterly application to take precedent.

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Rachel Macarthur's four oil paintings on paper are informal, gestural, arriving - at - form in the process of paint application, and there is gesture and painterly dialogue in the three wonderful paintings by Karl Bielik.

The term was coined by writer, curator and Los Angeles Times art critic Jules Langsner, along with Peter Selz, in 1959, to describe the work of painters from California, who, in their reaction to the more painterly or gestural forms of Abstract expressionism, adopted a knowingly impersonal paint application and delineated areas of color with particular sharpness and clarity.