Without the title, the painting would be interpreted as
nonrepresentational gestural abstraction.
Not exact matches
Its artists were known for their
gestural (vigorous and expressive) brushwork, thick application of paint, and
nonrepresentational imagery.
Lasker's positioning of contradictory elements (thick / thin, brushed / troweled,
gestural / flat, unconscious / conscious) through his use of three elementary essentials — figure, ground and line — challenge more traditional readings of
nonrepresentational painting.
An early practitioner of
nonrepresentational painting, Stella gained early, immediate recognition in 1959 with his series of coolly impersonal black - striped paintings that turned the
gestural brushwork and existential angst of Abstract Expressionism on its head.