Sentences with phrase «jittery drawing style»

Mr. Thornton, who early in his career painted on found materials, has perfected a jittery drawing style that is part Milton Avery and part Jacob Lawrence, but with a childlike sense of design that gives his subjects a remarkably foreign appearance.

There is a nod to the cartoon - like painters such as Philip Guston as well as to colour field artists of the Abstract Expressionists, in particular Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still, and to the biomorphic abstraction of Jean Arp and Joan Miro, with the added jittery drawing style, which is part reminiscent of Milton Avery and Jacob Laurence.