In the studio at present are works that seem meditations on various
kinds of brushstrokes: thin brushstrokes captured in monochrome; wave - like brushstrokes captured in modeling paste like water lapping on a sea shore; and black brushstrokes arching over fluorescent bleeds.
The «E» paintings contain two
kinds of brushstroke: a short, rhythmic, repetitive stroke, which relates to a mindful focus on the process of painting itself; and a longer, drifting transgressive line, which signals and attempts to correct a moment of distraction.
Not exact matches
Critics who earlier may have mistaken Reed's project as some
kind of reinvestment in Roy Lichtenstein's pop - cartoon
brushstrokes, or more bizarrely targeted him for his compulsive chronology, have been proven short - sighted.
Her initial representational painting would be done from life, out in the open air, then she would take the canvas home to her studio and work over it so that it took on an emotional resonance — something she described as: «that memory or dream thing I do that for me comes nearer reality than my objective
kind of work».6 She painted on canvas with a very fine weave and coated it with a special primer to make the surface extremely smooth, blending one colour into the next, making sure that the
brushstrokes were invisible.
The positive space is at the forefront as luscious layers
of broad
brushstrokes drip with determination in a
kind of perfect imperfection.
When you are working small, the
brushstroke has a greater impact — you expect small paintings to have a certain
kind of looseness.
Also included in the exhibition is Around the Clock (1993), a six - meter artwork from the Urban Bourbon series, which continues the integration
of overlapping imagery with gestural
brushstrokes to create reflective depth in a five - part work that uses two
kinds of metal as its surface.
With a celebrity clientele that includes the likes
of Robert Shapiro, The Game, and Khloe Kardashian, Milanesi creates large - scale paintings rendered with bold
brushstrokes and thick layers
of paint, imparting the
kind of vitality, movement, and passion associated with highly successful athletes and musicians.
Evoking a certain
kind of delirium, the
brushstrokes suggest Chinese calligraphy, then jungle undergrowth, then British tea garden.
In Lucchini's paintings, the richness
of his palette and the density
of his
brushstrokes provide a
kind of visual forest or landscape out
of which, little by little, the figure can be made out; the subject partly emerging from, and partly submerged by abstraction.
Action painting, direct, instinctual, and highly dynamic
kind of art that involves the spontaneous application
of vigorous, sweeping
brushstrokes and the chance effects
of dripping and spilling paint onto the canvas.
While I was there, I learned to let go
of that
kind of bravado
brushstroke and brought things to more
of a sense
of resolution,» which perhaps provided the framework for the figurative paintings that she continues to make today.