Sentences with phrase «hand painted gesture»

My work questions the role of the hand painted gesture in abstract painting.

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Think of John Ashbery's «Self - Portrait in a Convex Mirror,» in which the artist Parmigianino gestures with his hand in the painted convex surface, as if welcoming us, even as the figure in the mirror pulls away.

This wonderfully black silk kimono is detailed with multi-colored «Whimsical Children & Floral» scenes hand - painted, playing attention to their facial as well as hand gestures.

The intimacy of the hand which leaves its imprint and the glyphs and gestures of a spontaneous approach reveal his enthusiasm for painting.

Her elegant structure transforms painting into architecture (and vice versa), with the imperfections and eccentricities of the hand - glazed tiles functioning like a painter's gestures.

Bookended artistically and conceptually by two paintings, Mark Rothko's Untitled (1968) and Gerhard Richter's Abstract Painting (613 - 3)(1986), the exhibition charts the alternating appeal of gesture, authenticity, and self - expression, on the one hand, and irony, appropriation, self - effacement, on the other.

Two wistful young men making enigmatic hand gestures, awkwardly recline by a campfire in Adrian Wiszniewski's idiosyncratic painting The First Anachronism of the Day.

In Retroactive II (1963)-- a painting illustrated in the catalog but not on the wall at MoMA — some white paint outlines a pointing - hand gesture in a picture of the recently assassinated President John F. Kennedy, separating it from the rest of his body and turning it into an emblematic indication of the painting's power to interpellate its viewer.

Working in a variety of media from light to wood to paint, these artists» geometric sculptures and paintings, carefully crafted with moments of exacting perfection, delibertly retain the presence of the wayward human gesture and humble hand - made mark, imbuing them with a quiet and understated transcendental beauty.

Many have additions made by hand: unusual ink applications on the plate after wiping but before printing; acrylic paint or printing ink applied to the printed impression directly by brush; and / or graphite gestures drawn on top.

On top of the subdued gradients Schnabel made grand gestures by applying the paint with his fingers, hands and feet on the canvas.

The blurred effect of the obfuscated paint, dragged and smeared by the rag, retained a compelling immediacy that Wool embraced, having effectively combined the element of chance with the gesture of the artist's hand.

Doug Trump's Hand to Hand is a small mixed media painting / collage on museum board with abstract expressionist influenced gestures and composition.

Stemming from her subliminal and impulsive hand gestures and contemplative vision, Martin's serene yet potent paintings stand amongst the epitomes of American Modern art.

I break the clean - cut compositions or the so called «Op art» effect by adding loose brushstrokes, by placing hand carved wood panels in front of my «clean» wall paintings and my monochrome surfaces and thus break them with a rough gesture.

The human impetus to create self - prints can be as simple as a child's finger painting, and as poignant and poetic an assertion of one's presence in the world as the stenciled, silhouetted outlines of human hands found in prehistoric cave paintings — both gestures seeming to declare: «I was here.»

Using her left, non-dominant hand to paint, she elucidates the experience of creation through gestural strokes, using her eye to direct, and her hand to resist the formulaic gestures of muscle memory.

Pat Steir's most recent hand - painted monoprints introduce new gestures to her painterly lexicon.

Pat Steir's hand - painted monoprints introduce gestures from her painterly lexicon into the printmaking medium.

Then I realised that I wasn't interested so much in trying to capture someone who was actually there as I was in just the painting itself, and in letting that lead and decide what a person's facial expression does, wh ere a hand sits or what a gesture is.

Mr. Noland removed any representational hints from his paintings and any suggestion of what artists call «gesture,» or the obvious movement of the hand or brush across a canvas.

Very soon two main currents developed: on one hand one deriving from Expressionism which was very emotional and later evolved into a free, gesture - driven way of painting (Free Papainting (Free PaintingPainting).

The spectrum of tones and the oddity of the hand gesture in Open Hand may be closer to Freud's English modernism, but I found myself thinking of the mingling of grandeur and decay in the self - portraits and paintings of older women by Rembrahand gesture in Open Hand may be closer to Freud's English modernism, but I found myself thinking of the mingling of grandeur and decay in the self - portraits and paintings of older women by RembraHand may be closer to Freud's English modernism, but I found myself thinking of the mingling of grandeur and decay in the self - portraits and paintings of older women by Rembrandt.

The exhibition includes one gray slash painting that Fontana made in 1960 alongside work by Amy Feldman, Maximilian Schubert, and Alan Wiener — younger artists who have each adopted an element of Fontana's approach, from using monochromatic color to exploring simple hand - drawn gesture and treating paintings as objects.

gestural (adj) of or relating to the movement of the body to express an idea, sentiment, or attitude; in the application of paint, the use of sweeping, expansive movements in which the gestures of the artist's hand are evident.

Using an earth - toned color palette, Boz spreads, scrapes, and pushes oil paints across the large panels with his hands, creating various textures and gestures that leave behind a record of his physical presence.

Despite Whitten's frequent invocation of political figures and events in the titles of his paintings, his work has remained resolutely abstract since the 1970s, when he began radical experiments to relinquish compositional control, eliminating the hand, gesture, and paintbrush itself.

Approaching painting as an experience in immersive subjectivity, she uses a spray gun, distancing the artistic act from the hand, and stylizing gesture as a propulsive mark.

As in his paintings, the sculptural work explores ideas of both the presence and absence of the artist's hand, whether it be as simple a gesture, fold, crease or his personal handwriting manifested in neon.

People tend to approach the study of paintings or drawings from the perspective of the patron because so many of the artists» names are unknown, but we are exploring the perspective of the artist, as maker — the gesture of an artist's hand, the spontaneity of line, and the process through which ideas are born.»

The blue blasted form at bottom is painted by Gottlieb in a choppy brushed manner in contrast to the smooth rounded nature of the red eye above it — the two forms together isolate field and gesture, placing in coherent balance and tension the two modes of abstraction characterized by Rothko and Newman's color - field painting on the one hand, and Pollock and Kline's expressionism on the other.

Another series upstairs, «Untitled Lamp Black Paintings,» references the imperfect human gesture through lines painted by hand to dissect the canvases.

Toby Ziegler's futuristic sculptures and prints mix computer - generated shapes with hand - daubed gestures; while Philip Allen's canvases feature bright, painted circles, triangles and zig - zags on muted backgrounds, which together create a feeling of being trapped in a pinball machine.