Sentences with phrase «of brushstrokes»

After the 1960s, Lichtenstein's works began to include still lifes and landscapes, and they were a dramatic departure from his earlier style in their use of brushstrokes as well as in their subject matter.

This included a distinction for his thesis on the history of the brushstroke in 20th century painting.

Notice the quality of the brushstrokes of the blue wall.

Only when examined up close will what appear to be solid color reveal itself as a series of brushstrokes of many colors and hues.

He approaches this topic in a different way in Woman, 1981, and his Brushstroke Head sculptures from 1987 by treating the shape of a brushstroke as an abstract image in its own right, which he then uses to compose the face and body of a woman.

Each one consists of thousands of brushstrokes of multilayered, colorful acrylics.

Working quickly and intently, Chatfield layers oils and acrylics, building forms and colors such that traces of brushstrokes remain visible and creating finished canvases marked by paint drips and occasional impasto.

By the late»60s, his focus on the character and shape of brushstrokes evolved into a unique style that blended minimalist abstraction with his interest in gesture, color, movement, and tactility.

Resembling small, imaginary landscapes or futuristic ruins, the surface of these sculptures are deliberately finished with patterns of brushstrokes evoking a poetic, painterly feel.

In «Zen Master» Whitten's dense field of brushstrokes created heads and bodies that hover between legibility and illegibility.

Stretching Painting presents two of Moffett's newest pipe paintings, canvases covered in thickets of brushstrokes and attached to the wall by industrial pipes, prompted by the artist's self - professed desire «to get painting off the wall.»

I think it would have been very easy to make large canvases and to use specific kinds of brushstrokes, and do the things that would have marked one as an abstract expressionist.

The sorority she belongs to receives an obscene phone call; when her «sister» Barbie (Margot Kidder) humours the pervert, sensible Clare — at the risk of making them sound one - dimensional, these characters are deftly drawn with a minimum of brushstrokes — suggests they not antagonize him.

«To me, a portrait is a representation of a person and a slash across a throat is the equivalent of a brushstroke.

The mixture dries very quickly and so preserves the precise details of the brushstrokes, resulting in the beguiling, tactile surfaces that characterise much of Johns's work.

It features a loose, pulsing welter of brushstrokes that coalesce into lush zones of breathing, blooming color.

Lee's minimal expression of brushstrokes creates another passageway for relating himself with the world and others, connecting nature with the artificial, and the made with the unmade.

It may be only the illusion of a brushstroke, but then it is only the illusion of a landscape as well.

The 1975 Whitney Biennial included only one of the Brushstroke paintings, # 48 (1974).

Resnick continued to work in an abstract style until the late 1980s, when he started creating a series of gouaches featuring simplified human forms suspended in a field of brushstrokes and color.

A grown - up rendition of Connect - the - Dots, the myriad white dots and pencil marks against deep blue backgrounds suggest celestial bodies, but gradually the lines reveal movements of brushstrokes inspired by the New York School.

In one of these zones is placed a bright geometric form or an irregular aggregation of brushstrokes (Glow, 1966).

These details quote painting as a genre, containing all the history of the brushstroke in a lifted note, transplanted into a strange new space for consideration.

Utilizing a hand colored background as the foundation for the screen print, Perez created his unique compositions by layering different combinations of screen printed images, reminiscent of the brushstrokes within his paintings.

For the other paintings in the show, it was a matter of this mass of brushstrokes becoming figures becoming mountains becoming painting again.

The style eventually led to a complete absence of brushstrokes and a strong dedication to sharp composition, which was to be single, unitary and bearing uniform hues.

Settling in New York in 1956, Bluhm began building up his paintings by a process of accretion, multiplying clusters of brushstrokes until they became an allover field of color expanding evenly across the surface of the canvas.

His parodies of modern masters anticipates the postmodernists of the 1980s, his advertisements and pristine brass sculptures which appropriate the language of art deco interior fittings came almost 20 years before Jeff Koons and his paintings of brushstrokes evoke Gerhard Richter's later paintings of paintings.

His innovative theories and new approach to the definition of a work of art and the artist's role have moved from a conceptual perspective that considered mark of the brushstroke as a reflection of the artist's inner world toward employment of both traditional media and found objects, following his belief that painting is related to «both art and life».

And it is not simply that dense foliage brings out greater variety of brushstroke and mixing of color than bare branches against a steady sky; it is almost as if a different pictorial language, or at least a dialect, is spoken with the changes of medium and season....

We read the energy of the brushstroke in the way the downward force of it reveals the ground underneath.

Obsidian presents an exquisite example of «all - over» painting technique, layers of brushstrokes overlapping right to the edge of the piece, shadowed and deepened by the process of printing.

The horizontal band becomes the central motif, mirroring land as it meets sea and air — but far from serene, the works capture movement and energy, showing an increased freedom of brushstroke.

The main part of his artistic process was the intense study of his subjects, as well as extensive explorations of the brushstroke types, planes, colors, shadows and complex field formations.

With the Flower Paintings, Colen relinquishes control of the painterly mark and turns the action of the brushstroke into a smashing or shattering gesture.

Hughes has transferred the flowing quality of her brushstrokes onto hand - painted china pitchers, which are displayed amid a whimsical and surreal seascape on Fifth Avenue.

A computerized analysis of brushstrokes and paints suggests the male portraits came from the same workshop.

The experimenter varied the rate of the brushstrokes among three defined velocities (0.3, 3, or 30 cm per second).

The researchers identified the pigments used by the artists and the order the paints were applied and to which regions, as well as sources of materials and the style of brushstrokes used.

Cusick explains: «Maps have all the properties of a brushstroke: nuance, density, line, movement, and colour.

Thus People (2000), 91 by 54 inches, for instance, shifts from reading as a loose net of brushstrokes to a depiction of dozens of human figures linked by their outstretched arms and legs.

Ms. Passlof's canvases are distinguished by the primacy of the brushstroke: they were sometimes so thickly worked in oils that reviewers commended their smell as well as their visual aspects.

The softness of her brushstrokes is grounded by the evident marks of her draftsmanship, amplifying the contrast between the serenity of the oasis and the driving force of the city surrounding it.

Much of what followed since their heyday hasn't: A tour of galleries on Canyon Road will turn up a potpourri of paintings in the AbEx mode, many of them a kind of karaoke of brushstroke bravado and tube - paste primaries that only mimic in their very attempt to emulate.