Sentences with phrase «gestural surface marks»

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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.

Such concessions disappear in the following year: in a significant group of works created between 1963 and 1965, Guston interacts directly with the raw surface of his canvas, marking gestural, smoky fields in greys and pinks.

Each of the selected works demonstrates a primacy of the act of painting — gestural mark making and attention to surface materiality — over any true representation of form or figure.

His vibrant and gestural abstractions are mixed media, using oil, chalk, spray paint and even marble dust on canvas to create a textured surface alongside bold mark making.?

«Hassel Smith was an eminent abstract expressionist painter who made pictures with vigorously drawn lines and gestural marks that activated a picture's total surface with a wild improvisational bravura,» said art historian Peter Selz.

I have since relaxed in this apprehension, and have begun to introduce horizontal gestural lines by physically marking the surfaces of the walls, which connects to other interests in the sublime present in other bodies of work.

«Nancy Lorenz: New Work» (closes on Saturday) Operating in the gap between painting and the decorative arts, Ms. Lorenz's latest efforts add to the history of modernist abstraction by way of seemingly gestural marks and lines fashioned from mother - of - pearl inlaid in surfaces of silver, white gold or palladium.

Mounted horizontally on a tabletop, the photographic print bares the gestural mark - making of polyurethane wheels on a vulnerable surface.

Through her painterly mark making, raw textured surface, large fields of color, and calligraphic details, Fitzgerald creates contemplative gestural abstractions with an emotional resonance.

Thomason achieves a similarly textural surface by adding marble dust to oil pigment, and exploring a gestural language indebted to notions of the body, language, and punctuation marks.

The artist's gestural marks appear as if they were intended for larger surfaces, breaking through borders imposed by the edges of the paper.

Wool saw differently the possibilities of gestural mark - making on a surface and even used photographs of his own paintings as sources for new paintings.

Despite the clear marks of application, use of colour is not gestural; it is much more concerned with the delineation of surface and establishment of tangible planes.

Like her husband, the Abstract Expressionist painter Willem de Kooning, Elaine de Kooning was interested in abstracting the human form through gestural mark - making with black lines and the direct application of pure, unmixed paint colors juxtaposed, rather than blended, on the surface.

Expanding her range of mark making in scale shifts and close ups, Ferris couples syncopated brushstrokes with airbrushed oil paint to create surfaces that combine the topography of textiles with the banter of gestural mark making.