Sentences with phrase «more painterly surface»

Not the exacting precision of later minimalism — a designation Stella always hated, and would flamboyantly rebel against soon enough — but a more irregular, more painterly surface.

Not exact matches

The painting is an example of Phelan's early work which sought to reconcile painterly abstraction with process based minimalism, but in this context the cut surface feels more desperate, as if the painter were punching a hole through which to breathe.

Furthermore, he insisted that the painting is nothing more than a flat surface with some paint on it, completely avoiding any symbolic qualities that some believed are the essential core of the painterly compositions.

The color contrasts are startling, as in «Yellow Half» (1963), a canvas nearly six feet square with a solid V of vibrant red bordered by lemon yellow and then a more subtle red, the whole set on a stark black ground; that is, the ground forms two right triangles on either side of the V. Characteristically, Mr. Noland later went back to these V's, as in «Songs: Indian Love Call» (1984), but this time with very painterly effects, crumpling the flat surfaces with broken strokes of thick pigment.

Frankenthaler, Louis and Noland formed the core of a group known as the colour field painters, though the critic Clement Greenberg preferred one of his own clunking coinages, «post-painterly abstractionists», meaning that after the «painterly» surfaces of the abstract expressionists, the purely colour - based paintings of Noland and the others marked out a different and more advanced stage of art's march to absolute abstraction.

There doesn't seem to be a secret that needs uncovering: when I ask what prompted him to move from the lush, textured surfaces of the paintings he produced in the 90s — canvases that seem to have a warm bloom across them like a beautiful mould — to the flatter, looser, more painterly style he employs today, once again, he has no complex rationale.

Hoyland does much the same thing but in a less programmatic way and without resource to an anonymous surface: the action is far more self - indulgent, «painterly» in a more accepted or understood sense, polychromatic and broader in formal range.

Based in Bali for more than two decades, the Italian artist Filippo Sciascia is widely known for Lux Lumina, an ongoing series of almost black and white figurative paintings, based on photographic and cinematic sources; their impasto surfaces heavily worked by the painter, who runs a dazzling gamut of painterly techniques, to the point the painting's skin cracks and tears so skillfully by intuitive calculation that its disintegration seems to be instigated from the inside out.

In this recent work, he has lightened his palette as well as his trademark heavily impastoed surfaces, for an overall effect that is painterly yet more pictorial.

The 60s paintings are often packed tighter with more angles and movement, while the newer paintings are more open with a combination of flat and painterly brush strokes and surfaces that frequently include circular shapes.

These abstract painters responded to the more «painterly» or gestural forms of Abstract Expressionism by producing a type of geometric abstract art characterized by an economy of expression, a neat surface devoid of incident, a richness of colour applied in clearly delineated areas, and a non-relational, arrangement of forms across the whole canvas.

But this is not only a conceptual device; it furthermore creates an extraordinarily glossy surface - texture that punches the light away, affording the paintings a quality that is seemingly more photographic than painterly.

Kushner now mixes marble into his ground, for surfaces at once more palpable and painterly.