Sentences with phrase «painterly brushstroke»

Ms. Hartigan, a friend and disciple of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, subscribed to the Abstract Expressionist notion of the painterly brushstroke as existential act and cri de coeur but, like de Kooning, she never broke entirely with the figurative tradition.

In this body of work the artist explores themes of women's subjugation, home, and loss through an exuberant palette and painterly brushstroke.

«To avoid a painterly brushstroke and surface, I use some pretty devious means, such as razor blades, electric drills, and airbrushes,» explained the painter Chuck Close in an Artforum interview in 1970.

Spending time in Haiti, Karan's bold, painterly brushstroke prints were inspired by the work of the Haitian artist, Philippe Dodar.

This garden stool is crafted of ceramic with a modern dot motif in black resembling painterly brushstrokes.

Searching for the metaphoric representation of mankind, Millei has used his intuition and painterly brushstrokes to create objects of pure abstraction that are no longer just about making a portrait of one person, but represent a collective portrait of men / women.

However, up close, the figures break down into painterly brushstrokes and small gestures.

In these images, his painterly brushstrokes merge with the documentary clarity of the photographs, adding a new dimension to the scenes.

The blur has blended into the painterly brushstrokes of that early foreground.

Larry Rivers, original name Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg, (born August 17, 1923, New York, New York, U.S. — died August 14, 2002, Southampton, New York), American painter whose works frequently combined the vigorous, painterly brushstrokes of Abstract Expressionism with the commercial images of the Pop art movement.

Exuberant color and painterly brushstrokes fill the canvases of Midwest landscape painter, Rodger Bechtold.

The other show is a solo by Denver portrait painter Jonathan McAfee, whose free, painterly brushstrokes both obscure and reveal the inner person.

Seriously, this season we've seen a real move towards much looser pattern with designs that make their mark using ink blots, painterly brushstrokes and watercolour bleeds.

Not exact matches

That painterly quality of that brushstroke patterned dress really is enchanting, I agree.

The novel is visual to a painterly degree; events move carefully and slowly and simply, the sentences precise and deft as brushstrokes: «The beam of the lighthouse swept across the harbor.

The brushstrokes of the green leaves that seemingly float amidst the flowers over the black background reveal the print's painterly origins, and is among the artist's recent and large screenprints that have become increasingly popular.

Cecily Brown's lush gestural oil paintings draw inspiration from old master paintings as well as contemporary, political - based imagery, hovering somewhere between abstraction and representation with her loose, painterly, blurred brushstrokes.

In Chelsea, Smith reworks hues like «Pepto Pink» and «Bondo Red» into gestural painterly expressions: up close, the potentially clinical study reveals the wild hand of the painter, and you can clearly see the creamy brushstrokes that compose the colorful surfaces.

Working in tactile layers with impassioned, energetic brushstrokes, Brown relishes the fluid, viscous properties of the medium, conjuring flickering human traces through abstract painterly dynamism.

This spontaneous activity was the «action» of the painter, through arm and wrist movement, painterly gestures, brushstrokes, thrown paint, splashed, stained, scumbled and dripped.

A widely adored painter who was a star of the last Whitney Biennial, Laura Owens is known for building her compositions using a wide variety of painterly techniques, from digitally printed Photoshop brushstrokes to old - fashioned impasto given a steroidal boost.

A painterly abstract print with expressionistic brushstrokes in blacks, greys and soft greens.

I don't think you'd be far wrong to see it as simultaneously a riff on op art (a term coined by Time magazine the same year as Greenberg's Post Painterly show), a metaphor for the fluidity of U.S. race relations and a sort of tidying up of what Brummel calls «the thick, frayed brushstrokes» of Franz Kline and the bulbous forms of Robert Motherwell, both of whom worked largely in black and white.

From afar, Untitled appears like a trompe l'oeil; however, upon closer consideration, the photographic realism dissolves into a painterly abstraction composed from a meticulous system of thick, accrued brushstrokes that endow the surface with a textured physicality.

Since that time, Osborne's paintings have become bolder and increasingly veer towards painterly abstraction as her sweeping brushstrokes now create the structure of the canvases.

The contrail is a swirling painterly abstraction; at the same time, Dodge's brushstrokes witness the awesome power of humans and their creations (for better or for worse).

Viewers will observe different speeds of artistic creation, from slow, meticulous brushstrokes to rapid, painterly gestures.

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.

Georges Rouault was a French expressionist artist, recognizable for his rough painterly style and thick black brushstrokes that outline the subjects of his paintings.

This technique was central to Bacon's ability to create flat colour fields rather than a more painterly, brushstroke - laden canvas.

A third - generation abstract expressionist, Meyer creates painterly ribbons and tangles of brushstrokes that amass into loosely grid - based structures, often under - painted with warm pastel washes.

Indeed, her technique is so refined that it is impossible to identify the brushstrokes or painterly marks that have often been regarded, in various movements and moments over the past 60 years, as the last romantic gasp of the artist's self — such as in abstract expressionism, for instance, where the gesture was seen as a revelation of ego (usually a male ego).

A painterly abstract print with expressionistic brushstrokes in greys and soft greens and blues.

Resembling small, imaginary landscapes or futuristic ruins, the surface of these sculptures are deliberately finished with patterns of brushstrokes evoking a poetic, painterly feel.

Carefully interlocked within the shallow space of wooden frames, each ceramic component seems to embody a painterly gesture, a brushstroke writ in 3D.

Exchanging her style of fluid colors with the occasional use of brushstrokes, Van Lankveld here presents a series of paintings in a vivid array of painterly elements.

With the Flower Paintings, Colen relinquishes control of the painterly mark and turns the action of the brushstroke into a smashing or shattering gesture.

This process allows for a surprisingly articulate and nuanced brushstroke that evokes, in places, a rudimentary photographic technique like cyanotype, and in others a more loose and painterly effect.

But the starting - point of these second - generation artists tended to be an appreciation of the painterly quality of the abstract - expressionist brushstroke rather than existential motives of the sort that prompted the work of the artists of the New York School.

Through the contrast of the focused object and passing landscape, Sachs» pieces levitate between abstraction and reality, photography and painting, the latter suggested by the blurry quality of the landscape that, as if applied by lavish brushstrokes, becomes painterly.

Mr. Martiny has greatly expanded the painterly agenda by taking the brushstroke completely off the canvas entirely.

Others have a more painterly quality, where vibrant brushstrokes scratch at the canvas, like a man scratching at the walls of a prison cell.

This canvas is the most textural and painterly in the series, as Richter used sweeping brushstrokes with the oils he'd become used to in his work.

By replicating their bold, fluid, and gestural brushstrokes by other means and on a smaller scale, one could say the abstract expressionists were making «still lifes» of the painterly qualities that they were working so hard to cultivate on their canvases.

Horizontal bands and vertical drags of wide brushstrokes are interrupted by more angular accents, resulting in a mesmerizing ground in which painterly components simultaneously quarrel and complement each other.

The unusual prints and paintings, and the deft watercolours and sepia photographs peppered across the walls of this Hampshire house all set the tone for the decor — a painterly palette of bright teals, dove greys and soft pinks, like brushstrokes on a canvas.