Sentences with phrase «intentional awkwardness»

(Flat - footed, as in an intentional awkwardness to the handling of the medium best exemplified by Philip Guston's return to figurative abstraction — his thick, deliberate marks forced critics to talk about things like «the speed» of his paint as they tried to understand his aesthetic decisions.)

Provisional paintings are those that might appear unfinished or incomplete; that court intentional awkwardness, physical fragility and instability; that reject the display of conventional skills; that discover beauty in the most unassuming materials; that sometimes grapple with painting's «impossibility».

This makes Degottex a pioneer of what Raphael Rubinstein proposed to name «provisional» painting in an article published in 2009 in Art in America: «Provisional paintings are those that might appear unfinished or incomplete; that court intentional awkwardness, physical fragility and instability; that reject the display of conventional skills; that discover beauty in the most unassuming materials; that sometimes grapple with painting's «impossibility».

Collaged elements are cut and ironed on with an intentional awkwardness, and it is hard not to think of the recent exhibition of Matisse's cut - outs at MoMA.

The two stories slowly come together, and the film's early, intentional awkwardness transitions into its serious, high - stakes finale perfectly.