Sentences with word «gesturalism»

Works from the era of Abstract Expressionism counter the idea of gesturalism as being an innately masculine language to reveal how, equally, it has been employed to engage with female sensibility and experience — in, for example, the work of Joan Mitchell, Lee Krasner and Helen Frankenthaler.

The American painter Kenneth Noland is associated with a number of American abstract art movements, including: the Washington Colour Painters, a mini school of Abstract Expressionism, whose paintings focus above all on the relationship between colour and structure; Colour Field Painting - the reaction against gesturalism - and Hard Edge Painting, the geometric offshoot; and Minimalism.

A rare colour painting by the artist who was noted for his black and white gesturalism.

The word Tachisme was first used to describe this modern form of gesturalism by the art critic Pierre Gueguen in 1951.

At the same time, Suh declined the muscular gesturalism and labored scaffolding that pervaded so much Informel and Abstract Expressionist painting at the end of the 1950s.

In 2001, Remington produced a breakthrough painting titled Eridan, which she says finally united the free - flowing gesturalism of both her very early and later work, with the more intense, emblematic, mechanistic, and sensuous aspects of the work by which she is best known.

Commenting on Frankenthaler's gesturalism in his review of her Whitney Museum retrospective, Rosenberg accused her of having never grasped «the moral and metaphysical basis of action painting,» adding that «her compositions fail to develop resistances against which a creative act can take place.»

5 In his memorial paintings, for which he creates a composition «allegorical» to his subject, Whitten is «getting out from under» 6 the influence of Willem DeKooning's formally - based gesturalism.

Long's was executed over the course of three days, but in its swift gesturalism and unity it seems as though it could have been done in a moment.

• COBRA group (1948 - 1951) European equivalent of the New York gesturalism or «action painting».

Indeed, like many modern artists, famed for their spontaneity, Kline's spontaneous gesturalism was frequently based on well - practiced draft sketches.

Abstract art, the opposite to representational art, encompasses a diverse variety of general styles, ranging from the purist geometric abstraction and minimalism, thru gesturalism and action - painting, to organic abstraction, colour field painting and word art.

Though initially born as an elegant riposte to the painterly gesturalism that dominated the New York art scene at that time, the cosmic sublimity of these mesmeric compositions positioned Kusama as heir to the Abstract Expressionist practices of Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman.

In simple terms, he was the only painter to combine the luminosity of Colour Field painting with the dynamic gesturalism of Action Painting (compare Mark Rothko's Paintings).

Second generation abstract expressionists left gesturalism behind and started a host of smaller tendencies (which Greenberg lumped together and called Post-painterly abstraction).

Gesturalism also emphasizes the physical act of painting itself, drawing attention to the «process of creating».

Emerging slightly later than «Action - Painting», and in complete contrast to the latter's frantic gesturalism, Colour Field was a more passive, more reflective and more emotional style of abstract expressionist painting pioneered by Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman (1905 - 70) and Clyfford Still (1904 - 80).

Evocative gesturalism.

Tachisme is essentially that type of gesturalism characterized by spontaneous brushwork, splotches and blobs of paint, or calligraphic style markings or scribblings.

He continued working, however, although his peculiar style tended to isolate him somewhat from the mainstream gesturalism of his colleagues.

• Pollock the Existential Painter • Influences • Breakthrough • Pollock's Move towards Gesturalism • Drip Painting Technique • Characteristics of Action Painting • Pollock in the 1950s • Pollock's Legacy

A good example of his abstract gesturalism.

Morris and other Color Field painters used the heroic scale associated with AbEx painting, but eschewed the egotistic and self - referential gesturalism that characterized the earlier movement.

One of the things that the new figurative art does is show the dubiousness — not to say severe limitedness — of what Baudelaire called the «cult of the emotions» that began with romanticism (non-objective art is a sort of rarefied romanticism) and dead - ended in Abstract Expressionism, said to have begun with Kandinsky's delusion of spiritual grandeur, not to say grandiose gesturalism.

• Futurism (1909 - 14) See above: Most Important Movements • Hard Edge Painting (late 1950s, 1960s) Variant of Post-Painterly Abstraction, a reaction against gesturalism.

His novel method of painting, with its monochromatic palette and flat surface, was quite different from the textured brushwork and gesturalism of Abstract Expressionists like Pollock and De Kooning (1904 - 97).

Like Mondrian, Davis taped off areas of his canvas to be filled in with no - fuss - no - muss strokes, a technique that allowed his hand to leave its mark without the obviously emotive «gesturalism» of Abstract Expressionists such as Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Philip Guston, whose New York School supplanted Davis and his cohort.

His paintings deftly combine representation and abstraction, linear draughtsmanship and colouration, minimalism and gesturalism.

Her elegantly spare style had nothing in common with Ab - Ex art's bravado and gesturalism.

Dense and intense, the paintings call to mind the gesturalism of de Kooning.

Jerry Saltz gave praise to the show and summarised it better than anyone else: «Wool's paintings of blocky letters, words, and phrases; abstract graphic fields filled with erasures; and boxy geometries implausibly synthesize the gesturalism of mid-century Modernism — now out of style, semi-forbidden — with cooler art from the age of mechanical reproduction.

Hans Hartung (1904 - 89) Art Informel pioneer, noted for his gesturalism and ripped canvases.

And the pictures» lingering connections to Jessup's figurative allegorical work, which he primarily achieves with a cartoonish outline in the manner of late Philip Guston, only serves to make their gesturalism look hemmed in and mannered.

In the words of the gallery Victoria Miro, «his paintings deftly combine representation and abstraction, linear draughtsmanship and colouration, minimalism and gesturalism».

Serious mid-careerists such as Marlene Dumas or William Kentridge or Huma Bhabha all employ types of physicality, surface, and gesturalism, as well as cut - and - paste assemblage - collage methods, that are widely held to be dumpy eighties leftovers.

In her Easter Island — meets — Disney — de Kooning — and — Warhol portraits of Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, and others, Pensato combines the gesturalism of action painting, the painterliness of Abstract Expressionism, the blatancy of Pop, and the wild style of graffiti.

For a comparison of Gesturalism versus Colour Field, compare Jackson Pollock's paintings with Mark Rothko's paintings.

Willem de Kooning Biography of Abstract Expressionist Painter, Gesturalism.

In Europe, gesturalism was practised in the Art Informel movement (the European version of Abstract Expressionism) by artists like Georges Mathieu and Wols, by exponents of Tachisme, and by Asger Jorn (1914 - 73) and Karel Appel (1921 - 2006) of the COBRA group.

In terms of movements, the gesturalism tag has been applied especially to Abstract Expressionism, notably painters of the New York School, such as Willem De Kooning (1904 - 97), Jackson Pollock (1912 - 56), his wife Lee Krasner (1908 - 84), and Franz Kline (1910 - 1962).

They included: Art Informel, Action - Painting, Gesturalism, Tachisme, Colour Field Painting, Lyrical Abstraction, Hard Edge Painting, and COBRA, a group best known for its child - like imagery, and expressive brushstrokes.

The European equivalent of the gesturalism or «action painting» style of American Abstract Expressionism, COBRA was a non-conformist avant - garde movement founded by painters, sculptors and graphic artists from the Danish group Host, the Dutch group Reflex, and the Belgian Revolutionary Surrealist Group.