Sentences with phrase «gestural use of line»

These paintings are characterised by strong underlays of colour and a gestural use of line.

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From the gestural abstraction painting of Cosmic Slop «Black Orpheus» (in which black soap and wax are slathered in high relief) to the arcane photographic processes used to make lines of feet look like dental x-rays in Untitled, Manumission Papers, Johnson does it all.

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.

Fine's distinctive use of undulating branch - like line work distinguishes her from the usual gestural approach seen throughout most of the show.

Lasker's positioning of contradictory elements (thick / thin, brushed / troweled, gestural / flat, unconscious / conscious) through his use of three elementary essentials — figure, ground and line — challenge more traditional readings of nonrepresentational painting.

The works are large - scale oil stick paintings on paper using a personal vocabulary of line, gestural marks, color and texture.

Between 1954 and 1957, after this first Veil series, Louis returned to more gestural paintings where color and line appear to attack the canvas in a manner opposed to the serene use of color associated with the Veils.

Wright's paintings, whether abstract expressionistic or color field, have bold colors and compositions, gestural strokes and the essence of drawing — through his generous use of the formal elements of line and the color black.

In his use of lines, dots, optical density and translucent layers, Seliger complicates the paradigm that divides Abstract Expressionism into the geometric and the gestural.