Sentences with word «painterliness»

Summing up her achievement, Klaus Kertess wrote, «She transformed the gestural painterliness of Abstract Expressionism into a vocabulary so completely her own that it could become ours as well.
«Far from harmonizing the individual stripes by colour, Louis usually vibrates them, creating an illusion of painterliness in their optical flicker... [at times] they present the illusion of an almost corrugated surface, until the visible weave of the canvas tautens it, pulling out its creases» (J. Elderfield, Morris Louis, exh.
With painterliness, Mendes and cinematographer Conrad Hall present this moody tableau in what is a continuation of the picture's running homage to the images, themes, even favourite subjects of American painter Edward Hopper, such as an all - night diner in the middle of nowhere, an unevenly lit apartment, and silhouettes imprisoned in blocks of yellow light.
Concentration on painterliness and method is accentuated by an absence of titles other than the completion date.
The curator Klaus Kertess wrote that Mitchell «transformed the gestural painterliness of Abstract Expressionism into a vocabulary so completely her own that it could become ours as well.
Diao's work pushes painting in new directions by balancing heroic, Abstract Expressionist painterliness against more conceptual or archival practices.
He was by no means a traditionalist, however, and instead followed his own uncompromising vision of emphatic painterliness and experimentation.
Several of the pictures in the exhibition feature a swimming pool, and the recurrence of the image seems to tie together many of Hockney's concerns overall: the shifting relationship between painterliness and design in his work; the interest in forms of friendship and sociability; and the passion for bold colour and restless technical experiment.
Via his informal painterliness, Johnson imbues his pictures with familiarity that counterbalances their digital schema.
In fact, his sumptuous, canny but subtle painterliness is key to the success of these late works, for which he is best known.
The robust painterliness of the «Proto - Skin» works should come as no surprise.
«Painterliness redefined: Jules Olitski and recent abstract art.»
This late painting shows concentric circles, brushy painterliness and gorgeous color, as before, but there's an important difference: The palette is darker and uneven saturation gives an illusion of texture.
And he was doing it with the kind of deeply seductive, gutsy painterliness that, say, Philip Guston, that other abstract - turned - figurative painter — and upstate New Yorker — wasn't.
But Smith's sense for colour and shape break open its centre with large clunky forms articulated in a heavy red painterliness.
Wader, completed in the same year, and painted following a visit to the Catskill Mountains the preceding summer, reveals how Avery continued to push forward with an increasingly radical and loose painterliness in his late work.
Post Painterliness «is one of the strengths» of the AGO archives, Brummel notes, adding, «I have in no way exhausted our holdings with this permanent collection display.»
Forms have loose edges and contain a «greater painterliness» than his earlier works, according to the museum.
The ripe, raw textures of his thick, heavy creations make them almost impossible to photograph as he takes painterliness to a visceral extreme, laying on great rivers, mounds, twisted braids, spiky hardened drips and straight - from - the - tube loops of colour.
A tradition of aesthetic hygiene has been replaced with a careless painterliness.
Painted in 1991, it is a strong design and displays the artist's usual fine painterliness.
But her work needs to go beyond an illustrative sort of raggedy, spirited painterliness that is all too familiar.
It is an important moment because in the paintings from this period the combination of the expressive, gestural mode (as in the beautiful painterliness of the background of Treatise on the Veil) and of a conceptual, intellectual approach is particularly successful.
Her Bonnard - like palette with its lemon yellows, lavenders, magentas, and lime greens; with her sumptuous modernist painterliness; her old - master rendering techniques; her candied chiaroscuro and over-the-top highlights: In Yuskavage's paintings these make for a perfect marriage between form and content.»
Larry Rivers» proto - pop painterliness zoomed in and out of focus and scattered his subjects around the compositions they occupy.
Most of the conversations at the time revolved around material and process, and a kind of neo-expressive painterliness.
Its sensuality and painterliness seems to carry more of a romantic sentiment, one that had echoes in the series of another groundbreaking artist — Pablo Picasso's portraits of his lover, Marie - Thérèse Walter.
The seven artists range in age, but all pursue what might be called (to paraphrase Clement Greenberg) «homeless painterliness,» a use of odd materials and unorthodox methods whereby delicate gestures and colors are insinuated within but also around or at some distance from conventional painting.
That is exemplified by two series of paintings, which question (even mock) painterliness without abandoning it, and a wonderful installation that — perhaps in something of a feminist riposte — redistributes the poundage of Richard Serra's massive «Delineator» (1974 - 75).
«Bowery Patriarch» (1963) is a large, heavily painted canvas that is aware not only of the AbEx painterliness of de Kooning, Still, and Pollock, but also of the European «Material Painters» like Dubuffet.
The fact that an HD animation can produce a work of such exquisite painterliness reanimates a century - old art - world problem.
There is a sense of wonder and mastery in these paintings, which are bright and full of fluid lines, that marks a departure from the dense painterliness of earlier periods.
In previous work, a central circle would be interrupted by a chevron of AE painterliness or diagonal bands of color.
He says spending so much time looking at and thinking about a single work is a form of resistance against... read more... «Mark Greenwold's small - scale painterliness»
Fish's still lifes provide mesmerizing detail, and a captivating depiction of light and color, while hovering in a space between fluid painterliness and measured stillness.
His deceptively concise work conveys an energetic painterliness rarely associated with geometric abstraction.
Mullen's work is celebrated for its raw and spontaneous painterliness.
As the prestige of painterliness began to wane in the 1960's, owing to the combined assault that Pop Art and Color ‐ field painting inflicted on the painterly mannerisms of the New York School, Mr. Guston was second only to Willem de Kooning in commanding the allegiance of those who found in both the ethos and the esthetics of Abstract Expressionism the last embodiment of the «New» they were prepared to embrace without res ervation.
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.
If Pearlstein's painterliness feels less muscular when compared with Held's heavy, masonry - like impasto, the way they present the painting's proscenium space exceeds one's expectations, to say the least, of how realism and abstraction ought to appear.
His closest affinities were with the elegant Johnsian painterliness of Lethbridge — and, by association, that of Richmond Burton and Terry Winters — rather than the grittiness of Ligon and Wool.
Pintelon's approach to pictorial space is one that focuses on the primacy of color rather than on painterliness.
Painterliness in all the work is intermittent, a choice rather than a methodology.
By no means a traditionalist, though, De Niro followed his own uncompromising vision of emphatic painterliness and personal experimentation.
Sampling the gestural painterliness and collage aesthetics that underlie her practice, these prints hint at the darker role the body plays in Schneemann's sorrowful diagnosis of Western civilization's malaises.
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