Taira was a rising star in the Bay Area art scene who was interned during World War 2 and who went on to
paint joyful works for the rest of his life.
Not exact matches
Crisp lines and thick, nearly impressionistic brushstrokes characterize the majority of Matthews» more naturalistic
paintings, while her abstract
works, unencumbered by the boundaries of line and shape, emanate a similar,
joyful exuberance.
The
works on view, a selection of oil
paintings and
works on paper including acrylic and crayon, display a
joyful exuberance expressed through sensuous black lines and both geometric and amorphous shapes that are reminiscent of both Miró and Matisse.
Titled Some New
Painting (and Photography), the exhibition shows Hockney's latest
works, series of
joyful, vibrantly colored pictorial explorations of human figure which were created in his LA studio with artist's friends, colleagues and dancer posing as models.
Sibylle - Maria Pfaffenbichler «s action
paintings are not just fast in
painting style like an abstract expressionist but the quickly
painted figures are always moving, dancing, prancing — Ringa - Ringa - Reia, gouache & charcoal, is a
joyful work of art.
Not only does the Gagosian's show intellectually outstrip the clumsy Peace and Freedom show at Tate Liverpool, which covers the same period in Picasso's
work, but this show is pure pleasure: the
paintings are
joyful, the ceramics lively and the sculptures utterly winning (there is a baboon face made from a toy car; a mother throwing her child in the air, both of them made from sticks).