Sentences with phrase «of painterly gestures»

These renderings of his painterly gestures reveal themselves equally as the vocabulary of the artist as well as the archive, to which he helps himself in creating his works.

On the third floor, Colen's investigation of painterly gestures and his ongoing navigation between abstraction and representation culminate in the Purgatory paintings.

Taking this argument a step further, the removal of painterly gestures of any kind would in effect require the elimination of the artist's hand.

Through full - screen, deep - zoom capabilities, the Online Collection offers close examination of Still's art at a scale that reveals detailed surfaces and clear evidence of his painterly gestures.

Nicolas Carone, Yayoi Kusama, and Jack Whitten will exhibit works possessing a mysterious power generated by the conjoining of painterly gestures and notions of chance.

In some works the thick application of paint seems to tantalizingly obscure, while in other works, Katy's removal of the painterly gesture, with rags dipped in varnish or even by sanding, further complicates and deepens our reading of the expression.

Bravura swirls and snaking rivulets of painterly gesture form endlessly perusable eddies of incident and yet the metallic sheen refutes and repels easy interpretation, making these simultaneously seductive and unyielding, adamantine objects.

But before you really begin painting from what I gather from the reproductions even that one, the first one, the figure by the window — the collage element becomes very important, and in a sense it's a denial of painterly gesture.

The bold pigments are not mixed, and different layers of hues react with one another to create inconsistencies that themselves become the attestations of painterly gesture.

She tests the limits of the painterly gesture, suggesting that what she is after is not so much a fixed picture but an open orchestration of the mutable poetry latent within the endlessly generative forms of nature and of life's experiential meaning.

Her work is a unique hybrid of painterly gesture, endless explorations of space (a legacy of her training with Abstract Expressionists), popular culture, and a casual, frenetic style of drawing with line.

Neither abstract nor representational in any orthodox sense, this is no longer a work of passionate subjective statement but a calculated degrading of the painterly gesture into an arbitrary, repeatable cipher.

Even so, his doubt manifests itself differently, in a sort of anxious mechanization of painterly gesture — more like Jasper Johns or Sigmar Polke than Guston.

Not exact matches

«The movements of the fighters and the physical reality of blood and sinew are virtually indistinguishable from painterly gestures embedded in the pigments themselves.»»

The German artist, who famously uses a spraygun to extend her painterly gesture to an architectural scale, has included three trees — roots and all — atop an uneven surface of canvas and dirt to blur the distinction between museum and park.

Memories are woven together with filaments and tendrils, the sway of a branch or the curve of a river's course; layers of improvised painterly processes all spilling forth in expressive spontaneous gestures — intricate layers of technique and images, the forms taking shape as though guided by an external impulse.

Rachel Macarthur's four oil paintings on paper are informal, gestural, arriving - at - form in the process of paint application, and there is gesture and painterly dialogue in the three wonderful paintings by Karl Bielik.

Painterly gesture, it turns out, can get along just fine with the rigor of late Modernism, the conceptual art of the late twentieth century, or the open - ended excess of today.

Her understanding of art - historical narratives, tied to recognizable shapes and patterns, comes in and out of focus — canonical motifs distorted by more contemporary painterly gestures.

Cinematic Visions examines how, through a variety of painterly strategies and gestures, figuration starts to break down and, conversely, how a residual figurative substratum can be found in even the most apparently abstract image.

Works from the early eighties, nineties and noughties such as Formica Red (1983); Timex (1987); Charles Eames Chair (2002) e SMEG (2002) are iconic examples of Bertrand Lavier's ability to morph object - hood through the painterly gesture, challenging and experimenting the Duchampian concept of Ready Made.

Decades conflate in single works that combine fragments of the drawings from the 1930s, loose gestures toward the painterly whirlwind of the»50s, and the tight edges of the»70s.

This spontaneous activity was the «action» of the painter, through arm and wrist movement, painterly gestures, brushstrokes, thrown paint, splashed, stained, scumbled and dripped.

Her painterly gesture and her understanding of the volatile dialogue between brush and paint are easily and readily translated onto the canvas through her composition and form.

Highlighting better - known names — Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell — alongside lesser - known ones — Sonia Gechtoff, Perle Fine — the exhibition will encompass 12 women's work, «focus [ing] on the expressive freedom of direct gesture and process at the core of abstract expressionism, while revealing inward reverie and painterly expression,» according to the description.

Women of Abstract Expressionism will focus on the expressive freedom of direct gesture and process at the core of abstract expressionism, while revealing inward reverie and painterly expression in these works by individuals responding to particular places, memories, and life experiences.

The «Ten Possible Links» are a series of subtly vibrant and densely layered paintings that investigate the abstract imagery of Ritchie's sculpture and cinematic landscapes through multiple diagrammatic and painterly gestures.

Both used images of ordinary objects, or the objects themselves, in their work, while retaining the abstraction and painterly gestures of high Modernism.

On the third floor, Ken Okiishi's painterly gestures cover video monitors playing moments from cable TV, as if to put abstraction in context of contemporary culture.

Oscillating between two separate works, Thomas's painted homage to Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech of Black female empowerment, «Ain't I a Woman,» and a religious altarpiece, Diptych presents the sexy, Black female body sculpted out of flat planes of primary colors in two dimensions on the left (a gesture reminiscent of the painterly techniques of her idols Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden), and in a televised two dimensions on the right.

The Lee Ufan museum is a space dedicated to the eponymous artist whose quiet works carry painterly gestures too scant to take control of their surroundings or hold a spectatorial gaze previously treated to such unforgettable sights.

The DAM's exhibition focuses on the expressive freedom of direct gesture and process at the core of abstract expressionism, while revealing inward reverie and painterly expression in these works by individuals responding to particular places, memories and life experiences.

Hofmann made works of astonishing variety, crossing the boundaries between allusion and invention, reference and abstraction, in paintings ranging from the broadly invoked interiors, still lifes, and landscapes of his first American years, to eerie surrealizing «creatures,» minimal geometric abstractions, and finally, the bold confrontations of pulsating rectangles of thick paint — the acclaimed «Slabs» — and the orchestrations of free - floating, varied painterly gestures that characterized his last years.

Until the last years of his life, Willem de Kooning's painterly gesture became, by fits and starts, ever more splashy and uninhibited.

Both used images of ordinary objects, or the objects themselves, in their work, while retaining the abstraction and painterly gestures of high modernism.

Viewers will observe different speeds of artistic creation, from slow, meticulous brushstrokes to rapid, painterly gestures.

Instead of a direct translation from tablet screen to paper surface, Fischer's process imbues the digital image with an analog tactility; in some places, his painterly gestures loosen, revealing patches of the shiny aluminum beneath.

This gesture represented a clear reworking of aspects of the abstract expressionist painterly vocabulary7 and also emphasized his interest in both the texture of the canvas and its structural mediation through the everyday materiality of a disposable item.

From afar Veronica's canvases read as so many familiar gestures of painterly abstraction, involving the surrounding wall and floor and the drops, splashes and marks that are created in the process of painting.

For the exhibition, Alex Clarke (b. 1988, Nottingham, UK) presents paintings that explore the aspiration of a person making a painting, and utilise paper to question the painterly «gesture.»

In Injun Foster the sculptors sensibilities are pronounced in a screen print more decorative than descriptive, the face of this character obscured into painterly gestures.

Between them, the works study the major abstract Modern movements on the 20th century, geometric abstraction, painterly gesture and the elements of human imperfection which can find expression in artwork.

Tuanus (2000) has the scale of a history painting, the painterly gestures, blobs, patches and scrapes of impressionism, expressionism and American abstract expressionism and the graphic effects of screenprinting and technicolour — a sumptuous surface that belies the work's apparent subject: a drugs raid in central Frankfurt.

The DAM's exhibition focuses on the expressive freedom of direct gesture and process at the core of abstract expressionism, while revealing inward reverie and painterly expression in these works [as they respond -RCB- to particular places, memories, and life experiences.

«In terms of scale and execution,» the catalogue continued, «these works are the most ambitious works on paper in Richter's oeuvre, possessing an energy and impasto that the artist generally reserves for his major canvases.Untitled (4.5.86) shows the artist's relationship to Abstract Expressionism and his willingness to indulge in sensuous painterly gesture.»

These artists used images of ordinary objects, or the objects themselves, in their work, while retaining the abstraction and painterly gestures of high modernism.

Jensen's spare, expansive works were said to avoid all signs of willful expression, forgoing painterly gesture for apparently received forms.

Bookending «From Lens to Eye to Hand» are hyper - realistic works by later generations of Photorealists including Yigal Ozeri, Raphaella Spence, Bertrand Meniel and Anthony Brunelli, who demonstrate the ways current technological advances in digital image - making and computers impact the painterly gesture.

A painterly gesture in the lower right is a shit - stain - brown evocation of the legendary Sasquatch monster.

Indeed, her technique is so refined that it is impossible to identify the brushstrokes or painterly marks that have often been regarded, in various movements and moments over the past 60 years, as the last romantic gasp of the artist's self — such as in abstract expressionism, for instance, where the gesture was seen as a revelation of ego (usually a male ego).