The Golden Age artist was particularly admired for his painterly style, his use
of visible brushstrokes in turn inspiring the work of the Abstract Expressionists.
Unforunately, there are still lots
of visible brushstrokes, which I don't mind, but I know a lot of people aren't into that.
Not exact matches
And He surfaces in the patches
of color, the broken
brushstrokes, the silhouette
of Him
visible in the chaos — Christ entering all this chaos.
This newly discovered sense
of liberation is clearly
visible in the energetic, staccato
brushstrokes that make up the dynamic surface
of the painting.
Five paintings structured after works by Kandinsky and Malevich — McElheny's Crystalline Prism Painting I, II, III, IV, and VI — feature press - molded and polished glass prisms inset into a field
of black, matte oil paint
brushstrokes,
visible behind or through a surface made
of a sheet
of «museum glass».
Where Richter blurs paint to a near - photographic smoothness, however, Taylor revels in his medium's materiality, working in lively impasto and unafraid
of drips, splashes or
visible brushstrokes.
Studying their paintings in museums, he started from digitally manipulated photographs and through his characteristic approach created images that allow recognition
of the original artwork, but still making
visible details
of the complex surface, the tactility
of the paint, the
brushstrokes and the pattern
of the canvas.
Although Bluhm lived an ocean away from the epicenter
of abstract expressionism, his works
of the early 1950s share its gestural
brushstrokes,
visible paint drips, and pulsating color.
Both the studies and the paintings are typically in one colour — sometimes vivid and saturated, other times diluted to the point
of invisibility and sparely applied — with the particular qualities
of the paint and
brushstrokes left
visible to allow for subtle variations in tone and irregularities in line.
The Crow exhibition catalog states that the pieces «have a dreamlike quality reminiscent
of surrealist explorations
of the unconscious that melds, unexpectedly, with
visible brushstrokes and the traces
of swift, decisive action.»
As paintings, they are activated by the play
of colors and
visible brushstrokes... As dynamically composed reliefs... they energize the space around them, seemingly almost to be caught in the act
of moving across the wall.»
The
visible evidence
of the short, straight
brushstrokes adds heft to the forms while avoiding modeling.
Chase's rough and
visible brushstrokes (in Dora Wheeler, for example) resemble strikes
of chalk, while the velvety tones in many
of his oil portraits (such as those in the Whistler likeness) evoke gently blended powdery pigment.
These orange and brown drops reveal not only the ship's past but also the painting's history — they are
visible evidence
of the painter's
brushstrokes and artistic process.
Each painting depicts a lush landscape that's
visible only through the narrow «window»
of a single, unpainted swipe in the shape
of a
brushstroke.
In his decision to work directly on the wall, the artist's hand is clearly
visible, via handwritten text in English, French and Flemish, scribbles
of white chalk and uneven
brushstrokes leaving drops
of black paint that almost hit the floor.
Echoing Malevich's notion
of faktura — that paintings must present themselves as having been made by the topographic materiality
of their surfaces — Rojas leaves
visible brushstrokes and traces
of her hand in her work.
Seen together, gradations
of color and
brushstroke become
visible, and a sense
of motion and static in the pictures manifests.
The cold room at Kayne Griffin Corcoran, part
of her first solo show there, which is on view through November 11, has a heavy sliding door and an elegant look —
brushstrokes are
visible in white paint on the exterior.
Titian used a looser, more abstract
brushstroke that gave an unfinished quality to highly expressive effect, while Rodin, upon viewing Michelangelo's uncompleted sculptures, recognized the emotional power
of leaving
visible the emergence
of form from raw material.
The original paintings are immediately recognizable, but it is the overlooked or imperceptible details
of the complex surface, the tactility
of the paint, the
brushstrokes and the pattern
of the canvas that Longo has made
visible in his translation from color to black and white, paint to charcoal.
But unlike the temporary existence
of most graffiti, Greg's
brushstrokes and use
of collage build upon each other to create a sense
of memory in the canvases; nothing is erased, and through the layers
of paint, the history
of his marks remain
visible.
The
brushstrokes make the action
of the hand
visible and emit this shimmering, tremulous vibration.
Built up into a thick impasto
of rich colors, Pollock's brushwork is typical
of Abstract Expressionist gestural painting, in which
visible brushstrokes are seen as physical traces
of the creative act.
These casts are impressive in their detail:
brushstrokes are
visible in the slicks
of paint, rougher surfaces pockmarked with air bubbles.
Popularized by Swiss art historian Heinrich Wolfflin, painterliness describes paintings that are loosely and openly styled, with emphasis placed on
visible brushstrokes and the application
of paint rather than on the sharp delineation
of forms and objects.