Sentences with phrase «gestural qualities of painting»

She has refined her singular vision with an attention to the gestural qualities of painting combined with geometric composition and a primarily monochromatic palette.

The exceptional fluidity and high gestural quality of the paint that becomes flesh — the one into the other, inseparable — emphasizes the carnality of both.

Not exact matches

Widely known for the gestural quality and austerity of her oil and watercolor paintings, Marlene Dumas's work confronts difficult themes from pornography to segregation.

Pope.L has a knack for drawing out the scatological qualities of gestural painting, the abject potential of collage, and the rhetorical power of color to expose the psychosexual substrate of American racism.

The individual curls and ripples of paper echo the contours of traditional brushstrokes, in some passages even taking on the gestural quality of abstract expressionist paintings.

His paintings, stemming from this dual interest in the forces of nature and abstraction, have strong gestural and textural qualities, intricate layering (with the strongest elements of each layer coming through into the final work), and an evocative sense of color and light that aim to distill something essential from the natural world.

«A complex painting would be one capable of including many spaces... many qualities of light, of texture, of facture, a wide gamut of colors; it would allow for descriptive representation, schematic or symbolic representation, for geometric and gestural abstraction; and these would not simply coexist, but would somehow be coordinating... and out of multiplicity would arise the work's sense of meaning.»

While influences of Jackson Pollock are clearly present within this technique of applying paint directly onto a horizontal canvas spread across the studio floor, Louis's work resists the rather active and gestural nature of Pollock's compositions and instead embodies a distinctly meditative quality.

With an eye toward the history of black paintings and the gestural quality of Abstract Expressionism, Jones invites viewers to go beyond the associations of black with mourning and ill intent, to encompass ideas of richness, mystery, and warmth.

Frequently discussed in relation to Abstract Expressionism, these works share a gestural vigor and visceral quality with the paintings of that era.

Concrete Alphabets is a group exhibition that brings together 6 contemporary artists working in the medium of analog painting, all of whom concentrate on the material qualities of letterbased work from gestural, abstract, calligraphic, hieroglyphic, and more.

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.

Not unlike Lynda Benglis» physicality of forms, gestural folds and darkened areas appear as portals that achieve transcendent depths, while the wide array of materials render paint qualities present as something derived from nature.

MS: The gestural qualities of the TGA works definitely have a stronger connection to subconscious «expression» than any of my other paintings and most of my works do have a particular focus on materials and process.

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.

Concrete Alphabets is a group exhibition that brings together 6 contemporary artists working in the medium of analog painting, all of whom concentrate on the material qualities of letter - based work from gestural, abstract, calligraphic, hieroglyphic, and more.

Each of his paintings since re-engaging with fine art in 1982, whether on paper or canvas, has a spontaneous and gestural quality and often, a hint of figuration.

Photographing details of a previously painted abstract surface at different angles, he then reproduces in paint, a composite of that work retaining its gestural qualities.

While her dramatic, lushly painted works possess an active, gestural quality that connects her work to New York School artists such as Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Philip Guston, her work also evokes the paintings and pastels of French Impressionists through their vivid palette and frequent references to nature.