In Bunker's Falling Fugue, Parkinson continues, «the figures (torn and cut shapes and
gestural painterly marks), seem to occupy a fairly narrow cubist space, blues often being interpreted (by me at any rate) as sky, which sometimes opens up into a much deeper space than I was first perceiving.»
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.
In the case of Untitled (Gaeta), the brooding colors and
gestural brush
marks give
painterly expression to hedonic Mediterranean climes.
They were
painterly,
gestural, full of vivid colors and alive with abstract
markings.
Through her
painterly mark making, raw textured surface, large fields of color, and calligraphic details, Fitzgerald creates contemplative
gestural abstractions with an emotional resonance.
Further, the raw edges reveal layers of cardboard and fabric and add textural roughness that evokes the
painterly,
gestural marks of Abstract Expressionists such as Jackson Pollock.
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.
The complex shapes and the colorful,
painterly marks of more recent work refer to the
gestural abstract art of the 1950s.
The black form in the bottom is painted in a choppy,
painterly manner reminiscent of the active
gestural expressionism of Jackson Pollock or Franz Kline, while the circle on top calls to mind the Color Field painting of Helen Frankenthaler or
Mark Rothko.