Sentences with phrase «gesturalism of action painting»

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).

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.

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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.»

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

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.

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.

• 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

Other important contributors to action painting include: Mark Tobey noted for his White Writing style of calligraphic gesturalism; Franz Kline, an artist whose works include colour field compositions as well as vigorous gestural work, sometimes compared to gigantically enlarged fragments of Chinese calligraphy); Robert Motherwell (in his series entitled Elegy to the Spanish Republic, and his powerful black and white paintings); Cy Twombly (in his gestural works based on calligraphic, linear symbols) and Adolph Gottlieb (noted for his abstract surrealist series including Pictographs, Imaginary Landscapes and Bursts).

In simple terms, Greenberg was highlighting a trend away from gestural - type abstract expressionism - including the gesturalism of Willem de Kooning, the «action - painting» technique of Jackson Pollock, and the use of textural effects - towards greater use of broad areas of unmodulated colour.