Sentences with phrase «like brushstrokes»

The unusual prints and paintings, and the deft watercolours and sepia photographs peppered across the walls of this Hampshire house all set the tone for the decor — a painterly palette of bright teals, dove greys and soft pinks, like brushstrokes on a canvas.

Recalling the artist's early abstract expressionist work, the underpainting is dense with Tworkov's signature flame - like brushstrokes that are covered with a precisely rendered geometric grid of rectangles.

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.

His early works were characterized by delicate, script - like brushstrokes and muted palettes under the influence of Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro.

Treib's calligraphic - like brushstrokes read like some mysterious language, other forms feel grounded in the vocabulary of early modernist abstractions.

Instead of flat planes, however, each plane of color is comprised of compacted small strokes of various colors weighted to a particular hue, like the fire - like brushstrokes in Pissarro's late paintings, or the compacted myriad of little strokes in pre-Renaissance tempera panels.

The young Miami native's wild and vibrant symphonies on the canvas (think furious Cezanne - like brushstrokes, splashes of windex blue, and spring green that's so bright it looks acidic) depict the devil as inhabiting a luscious yet spooky space (gnarled trees, rickety houses with potion - like smoke billowing in the windows) where men go to contemplate alone and flirt with destiny.

Our current project is Sprite Lamp, which is a tool for game developers — it's all about creating dynamic lighting assets (like normal maps) from hand - drawn 2D art, without having to involve 3D modelling in the pipeline and therefore letting you preserve stylistic features, like brushstrokes.

In elegant curves, they follow the bed of the river, like brushstrokes from a bold artist.

As for the square, I never found it, but (like the brushstroke) it may have broken up some time before.

Entitled Tworkov Paints a Picture, the piece walked readers through Tworkov's approach to painting and demystified abstraction by presenting it as a deliberate process in which an artist uses color, line, and flame - like brushstroke to express a subject, much like in figural representation.

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And yet, much as candid cables from overseas embassies, the morsels like that odd, conversationless phone call that turned up in the 53 - page federal complaint, if true, added colorful new brushstrokes to the public's understanding of how this otherworld of New York politics really worked — or, short of that, how corruption was committed.

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Rather than having recognizable supporting players like Jeffrey Wright (as photographer Howard Bingham), Ron Silver (as trainer Angelo Dundee), Paul Rodriguez (as boxing physician Bernie Pacheco), Joe Morton (as lawyer Chauncey Estridge) and Mykelti Williamson (as promoter Don King) give their real - life counterparts spotlight moments of revelatory dialogue and defining characterization, they're flattened and wound as finely engineered brushstrokes winding around the enigmatic center.

Like Michael Dubo de Wit's remarkable film that draws upon the pastel naturalism of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli for what might be their best film in a line of classics, Del Mar's music is the equivalent of those soft brushstrokes on a big screen canvas of visual poetry, a score that profoundly captures a life at first seemingly lost at sea, only to soar under, and above it though its graceful music that touches the silent tides of nature's life force.

A swipe of the finger across the touchscreen will «paint» brushstroke - like platforms into the game world that Agura can then use to avoid enemy attacks or traverse obstacles.

Touchscreen Painting — Create brushstrokes directly on the touchscreen in Handheld mode Motion - Control Painting — Paint with the Joy - Con ™ controller's motion controls in TV or Tabletop mode by moving it in the desired pattern, just like a paintbrush

The grain of the linen, and small, dry brushstrokes allow Berryhill to use a halftone - like layering process, producing a surface of fuzzy colors and figure - ground inversions.

The painting could be read as twist on the idiom «breeding like rabbits,» fusing innocence, eroticism, humor, and death through the artist's frenetic brushstrokes.

Growling, mask - like features appear to emerge from Fecundity (1960), while the mix of thick and thin, sweeping brushstrokes and splatters of paint of Uncaged (1960) creates a mass of energy.

But when seen up close, what look like Impressionistic brushstrokes reveal themselves to be tiny but precise indentations, carved into surfaces that have been built up with dozens of shimmering layers of acrylic paint.

There's something about the quality of the brushstrokes, the layers of paint and glaze creating depth, and the use of forms that can conjure dreams of a cityscape that feels like his work belongs to both contemporary abstraction and the heyday of Abstract Expressionism.

Because these amazing wet - on - wet structures that Richter laid down felt almost like reincarnations of some of the virtuoso brushstrokes de Kooning made in 1975 paintings like Screams of Children Come from Seagulls [check out this dark blue, sideways L from the upper right quadrant, for example] or the single, epic loop at the center of the Art Institute of Chicago's Untitled XI (1975): And then when they're just right, Richter takes his squeegee to them.

A stalwart defender of abstraction like McKenzie can approach routine, but several artists there go big, including Plexiglas triangles high on the wall by Doreen McCarthy and wide brushstrokes by Andrea Belag.

She has the largest, with only a few broad brushstrokes against a slightly lighter field, like calligraphic Chinese art, but in monochrome.

While de Kooning, like the «action» painters of the time, used gestural brushstrokes, most her work was figurative and representational, and rarely pure abstraction.

Much of it is about the making of art and its unraveling, like Lichtenstein's Brushstrokes.

Yet by 1967 a tangle of black brushstrokes had gathered near the center of canvas after canvas, in a shape much like a torn and tortured brain.

In Chelsea, Smith reworks hues like «Pepto Pink» and «Bondo Red» into gestural painterly expressions: up close, the potentially clinical study reveals the wild hand of the painter, and you can clearly see the creamy brushstrokes that compose the colorful surfaces.

In the 1980s and»90s, he also painted representations of modern house interiors, brushstrokes and mirror reflections, all in his trademark, cartoon - like style.

As I move close to his surfaces, the web of brushstrokes encloses me like traces of the artist's own hands.

He merges online and offline imagery of different textures like surfaces of rocks, water or leaves, brushstrokes or monochrome layers, provoking a clash of associations for the viewer.

To create her large - scale pieces, she lays unstretched canvas on the floor of her Brooklyn studio (à la Pollock) and then attacks it with sweeping brushstrokes, taped - off geometrical passages, and Rorschach - like splotches (made by allowing paint to pool and then folding over the canvas with a tight crease).

While the mass of agitated brushstrokes initially seem like abstract marks, prolonged looking reveals a multitude of heads and figures populating the painting.

Along the way, he stops to separate rows with horizontal bands almost like single brushstrokes, although Whitney uses as many as he needs, no more and no less.

Andrea Belag mimes a brushstroke under a microscope, like David Reed or Mark Sheinkman.

At the same time what happened to it is certain elements got carved down again to where we started to see these fine details that came in to create these brushstrokes and mark making just like she would have done and what she did do onto the block.

The writer / critic Rene Ricard points out that the plates function like extensions of the brushstroke much in the same way the cotton balls do in Joe Zucker's paintings.

Challenging the eye of the beholder, Reed's dynamic constellations never cease to open up new pictorial spaces: the energetic and singular gesture brushstroke of former works progressively condenses into structures of lines, waves or loops that often seem like edits from some other context, called into offer counterpoint in new visual arrangement.

He uses thicker brushstrokes against black, like Abstract Expressionism as street art.

Like a few other painters, Reed sought to do something similar with paint, reducing colors and composition in favor of blunt, individual brushstrokes.

From afar, Untitled appears like a trompe l'oeil; however, upon closer consideration, the photographic realism dissolves into a painterly abstraction composed from a meticulous system of thick, accrued brushstrokes that endow the surface with a textured physicality.

Her practice began with her early studies of New York Abstract Expressionism and American Minimalism and developed into a highly refined vocabulary that merges traits normally thought to be irreconcilable: gestural brushstrokes reminiscent of early influences like Willem de Kooning; precise geometric compositions evoking Josef Albers; and a palette reduced through Donald Judd - like discipline.

As the artist describes, «When I am carving a linoleum block or applying watercolor to paper, a single knife - cut or brushstroke is like reliving each step that I walked or ran.»

Where a painter like Howard Hodgkin took his brushstroke over the edge as if it weren't there at all, Nikolic is acutely aware of the edge.

For him, that brushstroke had become cliche, sort of like a comic,» Zabel says.

The looping trajectory of brushstrokes insinuates a shallow depth, but it is the small windows that appear like cavities in the lyric composition that insinuate a deeper space beyond the veils.