Sentences with phrase «gestural painting style»

He received his MFA at the University of Michigan, training in an Abstract Expressionist, gestural painting style.

This group of exclusively male artists were often referred to as action painters, a term coined by Modernist art historian Robert Rosenblum, referring to the abstract, gestural painting style.

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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.

Her paintings draw on various traditions of abstraction from gestural and geometric, hard - edge styles.

It wasn't until the mid-1980s that Mueller emerged with a distinctive style in which thinned - out acrylic paint is used to create soft, glowing, loosely geometric stained grounds (reminiscent of Rothko's «multiform» paintings) that Mueller then defaces with pigment - thick gestural forms that have a Baroque grotesquerie about them.

untitled, 1958, culminates this style, influenced no doubt by Mitchell's sojourns in France, and displays the highly gestural application of paint and brilliant gem - colored hues for which she is now acclaimed.

During the almost 50 years of her painting life, as Abstract Expressionism was eclipsed by successive styles, Mitchell's commitment to the tenets of gestural abstraction remained firm and uncompromising.

Peter Fox Expanding on his signature style of drip painting, Peter Fox's spilled paint works have taken on bold gestural movements.

Through layers of paint applied in an utterly abstract gestural style, which seem to cover instead of disclosing an image, the pictures record time, summing up the experience of looking, processing, and representing.»

Amy Sillman is an American contemporary artist born in 1955, known for her gestural and abstract style of painting.

While the «Road» and «Trees» paintings veer toward his signature graphic style, Katz's «Grass» compositions are freely gestural, offering an engulfing sense of space.

And in the 1970's, his style became more fluid and contemplative, as can be seen in the work... Whose Name Was Written in Water (1975), in which the use of paint diluted with oil yielded longer and more gestural brushstrokes.

Tang Chang's first solo exhibition outside of Thailand traces the development of his singular style of gestural abstraction and his eventual rejection of painting in favor of «poetry - drawings.»

The subject of numerous international shows and much critical acclaim, these pieces signal the apotheosis of Sutcliffe's late style, emphasizing his movement away from figuration into the collaged geometricism of his works on paper and the dense gestural abstraction of his paintings.

These paintings were seen as a reaction to or even an attack on the exuberant, gestural Ab Ex style, and Stella was definitely inspired by a Jasper Johns flag painting, but he has insisted that the Black Paintings were «my own version of Abstract Expressionispaintings were seen as a reaction to or even an attack on the exuberant, gestural Ab Ex style, and Stella was definitely inspired by a Jasper Johns flag painting, but he has insisted that the Black Paintings were «my own version of Abstract ExpressionisPaintings were «my own version of Abstract Expressionism.»

His lusciously gestural oil paintings were very loosely based on figures, landscapes and still life compositions and they helped establish what can now be described as a distinctly American style of modern painting.

Park, who continued to paint in the gestural style, was instrumental in instigating a return to figurative painting.

His 1984 visit to an exhibition of Japanese calligraphy triggered a dramatic shift in style that culminated in a masterful series of gestural paintings and drawings entitled Cold Mountain.

In his large - scale oil painting Mother Tongue (2013), a hybrid geometric and gestural abstract work, Gerber has been informed by French lyrical abstraction, more precisely the calligraphic style of the German born painter Hans Hartung (1904 - 1989).

Rather than adopt the gestural and painterly style of contemporaries Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, Louis instead took to pouring diluted paint directly onto the canvas, letting pigments soak into the support in brightly colored bands.

Versteeg pays attention to the aesthetic details of this presentation: for example, rather than hiding his wiring, he uses conspicuously colored cables that, when seen against the wall, mimic the lines of gestural drawing or painting, and in Boom (Fresher Acconci), his selection of an old - style 20 - inch monitor to display the images suggests the rapid rate of change in computer technology.

These are based on the Pour Paintings from the 1980s that are characterized by a free gestural style in which paint and lacquer are experimentally mixed on the canvas.

Using elements from the tangible world such a artists» materials, travel ephemera, tobacco and wine labels allowed Motherwell to construct a narrative for the viewer while still maintaining his automatic and gestural style of painting.

Clyfford Still fused the two predominant painting styles of the radical postwar movement, combining the gestural method with the famed color fields technique.

Turning away from the approaches of artists like Pollok and Kline during the 1960s, Guston's paintings came to include his own cartoon - style realism, combining elements of gestural abstraction with a return to figuration.

Some were painted in slick, hard - edge styles, whereas others had solid fields of color or more gestural brushwork.

Beginning with his earliest work, Diebenkorn sustained virtuosity in not one, but many different styles, from the gestural Abstract Expressionist paintings of his Sausalito, Albuquerque and Berkeley series, to the Bay Area Figurative movement, and finally, the consummate splendor of Ocean Park.

The main component styles included: the animated all - over Action - Painting (developed by Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner); Gestural Painting (developed by Willem de Kooning); Colour Field Painting (practised by Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still), and «Hard - Edge Painting» (invented by Frank Stella), most of which were executed on a monumental scale.

While his work in his native Philadelphia had more of a geometric quality, inspired by Piet Mondrian, his move to California in 1950 changed his style to more gestural, using thick impasto oil paint and swirling motifs common of the San Francisco scene.

Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer and Julian Schnabel employed thickly applied paint, gestural brushstrokes and emotive subject matter in a style which would later become known as Neo Expressionism.

Whereas in London, even if the show was considered somewhat confusing and Pollock's paintings generally ridiculed, there was a tendency to consider all contemporary abstract artists in the same breath, united by a common gestural style and process - as can be seen in Patrick Heron's review, which singled out (with suspicion) both Pollock and Georges Mathieu, as well as Jean - Paul Riopelle.

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.

Recognized for his use of vibrant color, the museum describes his painting style as «gestural figuration.»

Pollock experimented with a number of styles before eventually developing a vigorously gestural technique, dripping and spattering paint across his canvases in a seemingly random way.

Neo-Expressionist (adj.) of or relating to the artistic style of the 1980s that revived the use of jarring colors and gestural brushstrokes to infuse paintings with energy and emotional intensity.

Taken together, Exhibition Space stretches beyond Martinsen's signature freeform and gestural style of painting into a collection that intends to show more clearly the relationships between the artist, the art, and, most importantly, the space that houses the two.

A pivotal figure in the development of Abstract Expressionism, Jack Tworkov radically shifted his painting style in the late 1960s, as he moved away from overtly gestural brushstrokes to controlled diagrammatic abstraction, as seen on SS - 68 # 2 (1968).

It must be emphasized that this was a wide movement, encompassing differing styles, including (as mentioned) works that were either semi - or non-abstract, as well as those characterized by the way paint was applied, such as Jackson Pollock's paintings (dripped and poured), and Willem de Kooning's works (gestural brushwork).

In pieces such as King Oliver, painted in 1958, his iconic personal style is still evident, as are his gestural brush strokes.

He borrowed the gestural painting technique that had been devised by his fellow Abstract Expressionists, and with it developed his own distinct, active, physical style.

Action painting or Gestural Abstraction (that made Pollock famous) is a style used in painting — a style that emphasizes the process of making art, often through a variety of techniques that include dripping, dabbing, smearing, and even flinging paint onto the surface of the canvas.

Stylewise, he is associated with the gestural painting of the Abstract Expressionist school, as his works are similar in style to his American counterpart William de Kooning (1904 - 97).

(2) The avant - garde Cobra Group, which practised the gestural or «action painting» style of American Abstract Expressionism.

Famous for his brutal brushwork, impasto textures and clashing colours, he exemplified the «gestural painting» style of the New York School, along with other abstract artists like Franz Kline (1910 - 62), Jackson Pollock (1912 - 56) and Lee Krasner (1908 - 84), the founders of «action painting».

The school embraced several different styles including: Action - Painting (see in particular Jackson Pollock's paintings); the vivid Colour Field Painting (in particular, see Mark Rothko's paintings as well as works by Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman); and the gestural painting of Willem De Kooning andPainting (see in particular Jackson Pollock's paintings); the vivid Colour Field Painting (in particular, see Mark Rothko's paintings as well as works by Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman); and the gestural painting of Willem De Kooning andPainting (in particular, see Mark Rothko's paintings as well as works by Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman); and the gestural painting of Willem De Kooning andpainting of Willem De Kooning and others.

From the 1960s on, Vicente refined his gestural style of painting and collage to reflect a more reductive approach that employed vibrant color harmonies and contrasts.

The exhibition explores the artist's evolving style, beginning with his more figurative early work and culminating with the transformative gestural paintings for which he became famous (or infamous, depending on your feelings).

During this time he became drawn to the primitivism of tribal art, and developed a style of gestural painting marked by thin white lines on dark canvases.

Spearheaded by American artists - themselves strongly influenced by European expatriates - it consisted of two main styles: a highly animated form of gestural painting, popularized by Jackson Pollock (1912 - 56), and a much more passive mood - oriented style known as Colour Field painting, championed by Mark Rothko (1903 - 70).

Mathieu's gestural style was influenced by several people, including the Tachiste Hans Hartung (1904 - 89), the American Jackson Pollock (1912 - 56), inventor of action painting, and the members of the Gutai Art Association, (1954 — 72) in Japan.