Until the last years of his life, Willem de Kooning's
painterly gesture became, by fits and starts, ever more splashy and uninhibited.
Not exact matches
But before you really begin painting from what I gather from the reproductions even that one, the first one, the figure by the window — the collage element
becomes very important, and in a sense it's a denial of
painterly gesture.
Gina kept painting outdoors but
became much more involved with
gestures and
painterly marks when she started painting outside the city.
The bold pigments are not mixed, and different layers of hues react with one another to create inconsistencies that themselves
become the attestations of
painterly gesture.
It is precisely this
painterly gesture and tactile surface that have
become hallmarks of Abstract Expressionism.