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.
Usally known as a photo retouching tool, the airbrushing technique appeals to various visual authors who prefer to
avoid painterly brushstroke and surface.
Once again, the hand - crafted work can be appreciated in full as we see everything
from painterly brushstrokes to finely tuned outlines.
The evanescent quality of her paintings creates a dynamic interplay with the viewer; hues brighten or flatten,
painterly brushstrokes appear or disappear as shifts in light and viewing position continuously alter one's relationship to the work.
«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.
Using scenes from classic cinema as inspiration, Susan Bee's new body of work puts her medium to the test: with
her painterly brushstrokes and jabs competing with the pictorial film stills as the subjects of her paintings.
What connects Fein's multi-disciplinary visual vocabulary is the joy to experiment that is visible similarly in
her painterly brushstrokes of oil on board, fine contoured lines on ceramic plates or soft layers of india ink on canvas, which is also paired with a tranquility and meditativeness found in her figure's characters.
In this body of work the artist explores themes of women's subjugation, home, and loss through an exuberant palette and
painterly brushstroke.
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.
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.
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 the 1940s and 50s Abstract Expressionism emerged in the United States, with artists exploring powerful emotion through vivid colours and
painterly brushstrokes, as demonstrated by Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell and Jackson Pollock.
Baselitz's work has long been known for its aesthetic expression and the paintings in this show are no exception with their vibrant colors and
painterly brushstrokes.
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.