Sentences with phrase «loose brushwork»
"Loose brushwork" refers to a painting technique where the artist uses quick, free, and expressive strokes with their brush. It creates a more relaxed and spontaneous look in the artwork compared to precise and detailed brushwork. Full definition
His earliest New York paintings are figure studies of working - class urban denizens painted with loose brushwork.
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During this time, Tworkov developed his characteristic loose brushwork as seen in Departure (1952 — 53), a work inspired by the theme of Homer's Odyssey.
In this presentation of abstract works, you'll see how artists, including Robert Motherwell, Betty Parsons, and Joan Mitchell used loose brushwork and emphasized surface rather than depth on the canvas.
These may be assembled under the category of «blue paintings,» given the dominance of the color in each of their palettes, but in practice we are confronted with numerous variations on the theme, involving everything from loose brushwork to tight interlocking geometric planes, as well as a repertoire of blues that ranges from pale tones to dark ones approaching black.
Among the preeminent abstract painters of her generation, Heilmann creates works that are both formally adventurous and richly evocative, marked by loose brushwork and bold patterning.
Leslie Camhi reports in The Village Voice: «Billy Sullivan's extensive photographic archive forms the basis for his recent paintings, which are the major news here, rendered in loose brushwork and sometimes jewel - toned colors.
While there is no one prescribed style, Abstract Expressionist canvases are known for loose brushwork, all - over composition, an emphasis on surface rather than depth, and a grand sense of scale.
During this time, Tworkov developed his characteristic loose brushwork as seen in Departure (1951), a work inspired by the theme of Homer's Odyssey.
Her interiors (some with figures) and landscapes and cityscapes feature blocks of color, spatial distortions and wonderfully loose brushwork, but always, ultimately, at the service of representation.
It may also sound as if loose brushwork, in contrast, is just plain dirty, as part of the very revival of abstraction, legitimized by slick shows like MoMA's «The Forever Now.»
Flat areas may lie alongside looser brushwork, richer colors, or more quilting.
In the midst of the sexual revolution, she made her «Sex Paintings,» here represented by a 1971 canvas suggesting the intimacy of oral sex, juxtaposing loose brushwork with dead - accurate perspective.
Rather than trying to get precise detail, as I did when I used to paint with a tiny little brush at times, the monotypes were wonderful in terms of not only loose brushwork but in terms of wiping and smudging, etc., and I think it helped the painting a great deal.»
With the furious loose brushwork and roughened surface of «Composition» (1961), his straightforward accomplishments are not to be denied.
In addition to leading the world's most popular art movement, Monet's late waterlily paintings - characterized by exceptionally loose brushwork and swirls of colour - anticipated later 20th century styles like Abstract Expressionism (c.1945 - 1962).
Many still adopt loose brushwork, to the point of painting as «business casual,» others just a few shapes and colors.
Inspired from the artworks in her own personal collection or those found within her parents» home, Fuchs» paintings render the original pieces in her own pastel color palette with loose brushwork.
Impressionism emerged in France in the 1860s as a style characterized by painting in the outdoors using loose brushwork and bright colors.
Dong Yuan was the founder of the southern school of landscape painting, characterized by loose brushwork and an impressionistic style.
The loose brushwork and the octopus return in a two - panel collaboration that is obviously titled «A Hundred Thousand Dollars.»
In the mid-1950s, however, Freud diverged from this previous approach in favor of looser brushwork and richer application of color.
His latest paintings grow, if possible, more skillful, with looser brushwork and the abandonment of sepia tones for an intense blue.
Upon closer inspection, the viewer also discovers that Xie's handling of the imagery is much more painterly and expressive than first expected, often with areas of loose brushwork.
Many include direct gesture, loose brushwork, over-all composition, and an emphasis on surface rather than depth.
Through her loose brushwork — which she uses to call attention to the sensuous nature of oil paint itself — forms become imprecise but alluring.
Dozier began to develop a semiabstract style, using looser brushwork and more brilliant colors than he had during the Regionalist era.
Loose brushwork, semi-visible underlayers, and untouched drips of paint reveal the process of careful adjustment by which he arrived at the work's seemingly casual perfection.
Defying easy categorization, Diebenkorn's loose brushwork and all - over compositions are often labeled Abstract Expressionist, aligning him with New York School artists.
Loose brushwork or even bare canvas will only emphasize my subject.
Paradoxically, this didn't prevent his broken, loose brushwork from acting as a precursor for abstract expressionism during the 1940s and 50s.
Combined with the fact that most of the works share commonalities, such as loose brushwork and vivid colors, the viewer sees not one individual work but all works at the same time.
A 1967 graduate of the Royal College of Art, Jacklin began working as an abstract artist, but soon turned his attention to representation and typically painting urban street scenes, emphasising patches of light with loose brushwork, redolent of Impressionism.
She makes big, blowsy shapes with thinned paint and loose brushwork, with seemingly no attempt to do anything about the resulting drips except to let them have a life of their own.
Ross Chisholm deconstructs notions of traditional portraiture by skillfully painting figures from found photographs and reproductions, and then interrupting them with visual breaks in the form of geometric abstractions, loose brushwork, and thick dabs of paint.
A soft palette is met with the gorgeous contrast of unpredicted dark hues and vibrant colors, while his loose brushwork creates intricate textures.
It's the gallery's first presentation of Tworkov's work since they started representing the estate, and it's bound to be chock full of stylistic shifts — from the loose brushwork of his early paintings to the minimal marks of his latest canvases.
Loose brushwork is used on these figures in order to suggest movement.
Influences of a Fauvist Matisse as well as the loose brushwork and meaty angularity of early Diebenkorn become apparent in this period.
The finished project has some of the hallmarks of gestural abstraction — loose brushwork, rough outlines — but it looks far from spontaneous, and not all that much like a Motherwell.
Influenced by Turner as well as the Barbizon School of landscape painting, Streeton was also strongly drawn to the loose brushwork and light - focused approach of French Impressionism, as well as its focus on plein air painting directly from nature.
A soft palette is met with the gorgeous contrast of unpredicted dark hues and vibrant colors, while his loose brushwork creates intricate textures He graduated in 1996 from the New World School of the Arts in Miami.
Ken Johnson reports in the NY Times that Rivers's facile draftsmanship, loose brushwork and clever collage would look increasingly thin, formulaic and derivative, but the early work was daring and original.
Still - life: Autumn Fashion (1978) contains a variety of styles — some objects have heavy black outlines and flat colour, but a bowl of oysters is depicted more realistically and other areas are executed with looser brushwork.
The early work is Still - Life, dated 1954, a light - filled and colorful description of a tabletop with a bowl containing two fruits, a blue - and - white jar and a teapot filled with dry flowers, executed in the summary, loose brushwork and thin paint of modernism.
He may not aim for the looser brushwork of Titian after sixty, in all its force and beauty.
«There was wit and literary as well as artistic sophistication in her loose brushwork.
Although The Orchard can not be identified with an accurate date, the loose brushwork links this painting with painting styles of American Impressionism popular in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century.