Sentences with phrase «painterly application of color»

The dethreaded canvas» cruciform patterning is counterbalanced by the painterly application of color, reminiscent of Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko, whom Emblema met on a visit to New York in the 1950s.

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Interestingly, the practitioners of the Color Field saw themselves apart from the Abstract Expressionists because they stayed clear of emotional, mythic or the religious content, allowing the personal and gestural painterly application to take precedent.

Yet, Kahn's pointed concentration on hue and luminescence moves beyond the constraints of abstract expressionism, in which his teacher worked, to a kind of representation that artfully transcends overt description or narrative, even while maintaining a kind of painterly lyricism hinged entirely on color and its unique application.

The term was coined by writer, curator and Los Angeles Times art critic Jules Langsner, along with Peter Selz, in 1959, to describe the work of painters from California, who, in their reaction to the more painterly or gestural forms of Abstract expressionism, adopted a knowingly impersonal paint application and delineated areas of color with particular sharpness and clarity.

I don't see them as anti facture so much as more linear — which is just as much a «painterly» quality as thick or heavy applications of color.

Sam Francis's untitled monotype composition signals the culmination of the artist's career - long investigation of abstract painterly procedures: the aggressively stroked red field and chance application of colorful drips and blots energize the surface of this broad horizontal frame, synthesizing the dynamism of Jackson Pollock's drip paintings and the powerfully reductive aesthetics of Color Field painting of the 1940s and 50s.

Informed by the artist's love of Mark Rothko's color fields and the painterly techniques of predecessors such as Barnett Newman, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, and Georgia O'Keefe, Colen's Mailorder paintings emerge from a laborious process of application and control.

Fine's emphasis to color and its wavering painterly application result in the Accordment paintings achieving just that; they strain to bring about a successful marriage of structure and lyricism.

Through the meticulous application of grain layers and the manipulation of color, the artist creates an almost painterly effect in the finished photographs.