Comic strips, squirts of oil paint, art magazine illustrations, and a host of textiles jostle for attention, and gestural
paint strokes drawn directly from the vocabulary of Abstract Expressionism carry the same compositional weight as newspaper clippings of car thefts and department store advertisements.
Not exact matches
Its pattern reminds of an impressionistic oil
painting drawn in bold
strokes.
Across from Greenan, Peter Blum's booth reserved a small room for
paintings and drawings by David Reed, most of which felt related to the «stroke» paintings from the 70s on view at the Rose Art Museum's recent show Painting Paintings (David Re
paintings and
drawings by David Reed, most of which felt related to the «
stroke»
paintings from the 70s on view at the Rose Art Museum's recent show Painting Paintings (David Re
paintings from the 70s on view at the Rose Art Museum's recent show
Painting Paintings (David Re
Paintings (David Reed) 1975.
Motifs glide in and out; graphite lines trace the contours of unknown plants and body parts, accented by
strokes of green, yellow, orange, and red crayon drifting like blossom petals across the surface... the
drawings in this show suggest that Gorky's aesthetic is invested in the cultivation of visual ideas that transcend the individual artwork, a process that is occasionally frozen in
paint.»
Composed by hand and
painting knives, each
stroke relays a rhythmic action that
draws in the viewer to engage and react to every movement.
Every brush
stroke and
drawing that I have ever done has brought me to finish each
painting.
Thin white
strokes blend with the
paint and
draw the eye across toward the center.
These
drawings and
paintings form only a small part of Mammen's oeuvre, however, with her later work expanding to include sculpture — clearly influenced by the likes of Henry Moore, with an interest in the permeation of mass and space — and various styles of abstract
painting, incorporating both a Picasso-esque period and a later phase of collage and childlike
strokes, calling to mind the likes of Paul Klee and Joan Miró.
In a work like TW - 091, short marks dominate and, as the stylus made lines take on the quality of a sculptor's quickly and skillfully carved
strokes and as the depth of the warmly hued
paint seduces the viewer, the work itself becomes at once
drawing,
painting, and sculpted panel.
On it she
paints — washes, sprays, stains,
strokes — and sometimes
draws forms that, untranslatably, suggest giant leaves, bloody pools and papal tiaras.
Consisting of volumes structured by linear
strokes, his
painting technique resembles
drawing.
Fuentes is skilled in
drawing, illustration,
painting, and logo designs, and his works abound with energetic
strokes and relatable content.
By combining broad expressive brush
strokes with detailed line
drawings, Dona has developed a language of
paintings that is both representation and abstract.
Gechtoff's
painting Angel (1960), a vaguely female form (the artist says it's a self - portrait) in a crucifixionlike pose, energetically composed of shards of bright hues, dominantly pink and sky blue, lit the front room at Nolan; in the back was a large (61 - by -40-inch), radically abstract Gechtoff
drawing from 1956 — 57 in which an entity made of long graphite
strokes appears to traverse the otherwise empty page.
I came to appreciate these
drawings not as sketches for
paintings, but for the quality of monochromatic grey and black and for the role
stroke played in building up masses.
She has edited numerous books on
painting such as Keys to Painting: Fur and Feathers, Watercolor Secrets, Strokes of Genius: The Best of Drawing, among
painting such as Keys to
Painting: Fur and Feathers, Watercolor Secrets, Strokes of Genius: The Best of Drawing, among
Painting: Fur and Feathers, Watercolor Secrets,
Strokes of Genius: The Best of
Drawing, among others.
The
paintings have a physicality that is described through the monochromatic brush
strokes and the punctured holes of the
drawn lines that pierce the surface of the canvas, yet from a distance, they appear to be flat and suggest a fine line
drawing.
Each
stroke describes the speed and direction of its marking, and in this way, the
drawings are as precise and as abstract as the maps onto which they are
painted.
Whereas members of this movement
draw inspiration from mass media, Thiebaud
paints on the basis of his own memories, and his loose brush
strokes are miles away from the mechanical, hard - edge reproductions by artists like Andy Warhol.
[2] Although a
stroke in 1978 interrupted his career, Childs never stopped
drawing and soon resumed
painting, remaining in New York until his death at age 74 in March 1985.
Phillis Ideal: Recent
Paintings 2008 - 2012 Phillis Ideal's work is about the materiality of
paint which represents a wide range of abstraction: layers of transparent and thick, brushed and sprayed
paint; collaged fragments imbedded in medium; zeroxed rasta dots, computer graphics, shards of other
drawings; as well as, large gestural brush
strokes.
Painted in broad
strokes over a collage of his characteristic doodle - like
drawings, the work also bears testament to Basquiat's references to the punk and graffiti underground.
Wright's
paintings, whether abstract expressionistic or color field, have bold colors and compositions, gestural
strokes and the essence of
drawing — through his generous use of the formal elements of line and the color black.
As you move from one installation to the next, you are
drawn into a complex reflection captured in
paint strokes on a wide variety of media.
In the late 1990s he began to
draw directly on the surface of personal photographs, covering the images with intricate patterns of
strokes and dots or applying splashes of
paint and ink.
Since undertaking a residency at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Kitakyushu, Japan, in 1998, Evans has been fascinated by Japanese culture and ink
painting, and the words «Ink
Drawing» and «Kyoto» in the title reflect the fact that the work was made using long, thin brushes and
strokes that are traditionally associated with Japanese ink
paintings.