Sentences with phrase «painterly gestures»

Taking this argument a step further, the removal of painterly gestures of any kind would in effect require the elimination of the artist's hand.
The eleven oil paintings on view here spring from the expressive potential of contained painterly gestures.
There is also the very simple observation that the larger his canvases, the more reduced his pictorial language and painterly gesture get.
As a hybrid of painting and cinema, the work further shifts the emphasis from narrative to abstraction, highlighting color, elemental mark making, and causing painterly gestures to assume leading roles.
And yet the new work avoids painterly gesture in favor of dyed fabric and cold metal.
Selected digital configurations are then transferred by hand onto the canvas, fusing computerized color scales and painterly gesture into sublimely wrought pictures that feel simultaneously out of time and of the moment.
Once dubbed «Neo Brut,» Rosy Keyser's work combines cast off materials with painterly gesture.
«The movements of the fighters and the physical reality of blood and sinew are virtually indistinguishable from painterly gestures embedded in the pigments themselves.»»
In the earliest period, from 1980 to late 1982, Basquiat used painterly gestures on canvas, often depicting skeletal figures and mask - like faces that expressed his obsession with mortality.
The rippled surface and round format function at once as painterly gesture, image, and object.
Soundbox (2016) is an open square held up by a single support rising from a pedestal; inside the square are a series of abstract painterly gestures rendered in three - dimensions.
Ivan Comas» hybrid paintings combine UV - printed images of the shadows of trees with his own painterly gestures.
Her paintings are captured moments of a carefully composed set, yet distanced from their photographic origins through painterly gestures that abstract the body and exaggerate the psychological space they inhabit.
For the exhibition at Palazzo Grimani, Barkat has begun work - ing on a large scale, using painterly gestures that recall action painting.
Her small, luminously pale pictures of the ocean meeting sand (at 303 Gallery) adroitly play with tension between painterly gesture and illusory image.
A typical Crow painting quotes a male artist's work or style (Bruce Nauman, Keith Haring, Dash Snow) and imposes it over a physical space, ranging from a hunting lodge to a Vegas casino, from an oil patch to the gardens of Versailles, all done in blazing colors and dramatic painterly gesture.
Over the years I started appropriating found gestures and using those to make images that are about painterly gestures.
A bare arm flung back hangs limp and suspended, as one painterly gesture among others.
Her understanding of art - historical narratives, tied to recognizable shapes and patterns, comes in and out of focus — canonical motifs distorted by more contemporary painterly gestures.
Thus, Wool questions and destabilizes the related notions of originality and authorship by re-using and re-purposing spontaneous painterly gestures.
Drawn primarily from the MCA Collection but augmented with works from the Chicago community, the exhibition explores the decades - old skepticism about how painterly gestures are made.
On the third floor, Ken Okiishi's painterly gestures cover video monitors playing moments from cable TV, as if to put abstraction in context of contemporary culture.
The Lee Ufan museum is a space dedicated to the eponymous artist whose quiet works carry painterly gestures too scant to take control of their surroundings or hold a spectatorial gaze previously treated to such unforgettable sights.
In her films, often created without the use of a camera, the high - contrast, flicking images sear powerfully into the viewer's vision during and after their viewing, and are reminiscent of the emotional painterly gesture brought to bear by the post-war Abstract Expressionists.
Bravura swirls and snaking rivulets of painterly gesture form endlessly perusable eddies of incident and yet the metallic sheen refutes and repels easy interpretation, making these simultaneously seductive and unyielding, adamantine objects.
The reliefs preserve painterly gestures in wax, even as the imagery denies anything in the least personal.
For example, the repetitive scrawled doodle marks evident in some works suggest a hand neurotically filling a coloring book at pace, while the broad - brushed, casual painterly gestures aspire to bring a discrete tentacle shape into focus.
Until the last years of his life, Willem de Kooning's painterly gesture became, by fits and starts, ever more splashy and uninhibited.
On the other hand, Larmon's painterly gestures never seem completely ironic.
Lacking painterly gesture as a guide, the remaining rooms roamed more wildly.
«In terms of scale and execution,» the catalogue continued, «these works are the most ambitious works on paper in Richter's oeuvre, possessing an energy and impasto that the artist generally reserves for his major canvases.Untitled (4.5.86) shows the artist's relationship to Abstract Expressionism and his willingness to indulge in sensuous painterly gesture
Jensen's spare, expansive works were said to avoid all signs of willful expression, forgoing painterly gesture for apparently received forms.
Brigitta Kocsis» paintings blend realism, illustration and expressive painterly gestures in a chaotic and visually charged landscape.
Executed with bold painterly gestures and graphic virtuosity on a striking black background, the work encapsulates the unique fusion of stylistic vocabularies that defines the artist's vibrant urban aesthetic.
As the 1960s began, McNeil's painterly gestures started to gesture back at him, persuading him to let patterns of color turn into images of anatomies.
With «A Vendre, Exposition» at mfc - michèle didier gallery, Rutault pushes painterly gesture to the extreme, questioning the limits of a collaborative work and flouting the concept of artistic paternity in order to widen his scope of possibilities.
Known for his paintings Jules has rendered scenes from everyday life, geometric compositions, and abstracted symbols incorporating painterly gestures that show his true alliance with the brush and the process of pushing paint.
It tended to relate in that it was all so without painterly gesture and rather precisely defined as was «Pop Art.»
Ironically, given Mr. Kelly's lifelong project of suppressing painterly gesture, there has always been a warmth to his work where others traffic in cool bravado.
Pairing a figurative style with self - generated imagery and formal composition appropriated from her photographic practice, Cedar's paintings combine painterly gestures with articulated surfaces, oblique perspective shifts with flatness — the scenes wavering between depiction, memory, and fantasy.
Each painting in the exhibition will highlight key compositional strategies in a formal narrative where perceived movement, fragmentation, and painterly gesture establish a dynamic interaction with the edges and frames of her canvases.
Here, Schiaparelli's clothing designs took a decidedly painterly gesture, while for the accessories she drew on distinctive forms of everyday objects, creating hats in the shape of ice cream cones and handbags reminiscent of balloons.
Shown here in conjunction with Picasso's own work, the echo chamber of 20th Century art is offered a fantastic opportunity for another level of feedback, as countless artists pay homage to both the artist's fearless formal invention and the path he paved for them to explore their own respective painterly gestures.
In Retreat, the exaggerated painterly gestures of drips, strokes, and splashes are spread radically between object and plinth.
In an overture to Duchamp's «degree zero» found objects, the original photographs are frequently bland in content — an empty office, a ball, a beach scene or tourist snapshot — and Richter's painterly gestures bounce off that content in peculiar ways, sometimes interacting with it, sometimes overlaying it and sometimes threatening to eclipse it altogether.
The aesthetic impressions are created by measures of force, rather than by the considered or impassioned painterly gesture.
With these experimental techniques, Bowling was able to create richly textured large - scale abstractions that embrace the expressionistic qualities of loose painterly gesture and emotive colour, as well as the elements of spontaneity and chance.
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