Sentences with phrase «painterly marks»

And Joan Snyder and Mary Heilmann found other ways to combine geometry with painterly mark making.

Recurrent throughout 8 Painters are stylings on past painterly marks and movements, not so much placed in quotations as absorbed into a work's facture... It's a hopeful sign that the artists in [the show] demonstrate a critical distillation of influences that inform their particular sensibilities, philosophical outlooks, and relationship to materials — not making any great claims, just proceeding in a personally deliberate way.»

The exquisite Black and White No. 3 carries a boldly expressive gestural motif of a number four which, together with the crossing orthogonal vectors that bear it, is emblematic of modernism's spiritual, nearly mythic symbols and signs that artists such as Jackson Pollock, Adolf Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, and Newman fused with gestural painterly markings.

Trained as a painter, Blackwell considers every embellishment applied and every embroidery stitch sewn into the surface of his plastic bags to be proxies for painterly mark - making.

He banished painterly marks, then the frame, then the painting itself.

Solid blocks of colour interrupt decisive painterly marks, causing a tension between flat surface and the gesture of the artist.

Focusing on the decorative flourishes that these painters use to advertise products at local liquor or grocery stores, Cowan reveals how painterly marks and colors attract the eye in the everyday realm.

Bowling's arrangement of photographic imagery silk - screened directly on to canvas and then overlaid by a wash of pigment and painterly marks situates him alongside Rauschenberg and Warhol.

He presents minimalistic works that balance painterly mark making with carefully chosen and mixed hues.

Kirkeby, like them, employs a full repertoire of painterly marks while remaining confidently unfussed about using them «properly».

Gina kept painting outdoors but became much more involved with gestures and painterly marks when she started painting outside the city.

Josh Smith, initially a print - maker, fuses childlike painterly marks with reproduction techniques, such as copy machines or laser printers, to create a knife - edge balance between accident and premeditation, the raw and the cooked.

Pollock can be viewed as something of a climax to Modernism's notions of artistic genius and values of originality and authenticity couched in his unique artistic style, indexical painterly marks.

Taking into account the artist's view (as conveyed by the exhibition's curator, Katherine Brinson, in her catalog essay) of «his spraygun application of enamel as closer in spirit to drawing than to painting,» the blunt, businesslike but definitively deconstructive gestures of erasure are the most painterly marks he's made, and also the closest to the Abstract Expressionist ideal of directness and immediacy.

Neutral - hued wallpaper embossed with waves of painterly marks creates a restful, free - flowing feel.

Brewer's recent paintings are rendered as composites of painterly marks, and...

Recurrent throughout 8 Painters are stylings on past painterly marks and movements, not so much placed in quotations as absorbed into a work's facture.

In Bunker's Falling Fugue, Parkinson continues, «the figures (torn and cut shapes and gestural painterly marks), seem to occupy a fairly narrow cubist space, blues often being interpreted (by me at any rate) as sky, which sometimes opens up into a much deeper space than I was first perceiving.»

The painting I saw by Robin Bruch in that group show offered new possibilities by combining geometric forms with rough direct, painterly mark making.

The new paintings propel the artist's dexterity with painterly mark - making beyond concerns of spatial realism and the human figure into the viscerally abstract.

In his new work, Brennan proposes an opening where the painterly mark and color inherent to it can stand on equal footing.

This frame creates a nice distraction from the painterly marks of the thick paint as well as a contrast of surface texture between matte and luminous paint.

She blurs the distinction between actual and illusionistic space by employing construction materials unconventionally, such as an unfinished sheetrock wall without egress, duct tape used for texture and drawing, joint compound as a painterly mark maker and layers of newspaper and wallpaper.

Freischwimmer 25 is one of a series of images in which Tillmans has used purely photographic processes to directly capture light in fluid, painterly marks.

Exemplifying the ideals of the New York School, Mitchell's paintings wager all on the expressive potential of the painterly mark itself, freed from the constraints of traditional representation.

Referencing a cross between James Dean and dusty depression - era characters from Cannery Row, the sculptures invigorate the painterly mark as eloquently as the paintings do.

In these works, Tomlin's meticulous use of the painterly mark and rhythmic structure achieved the subtle alchemy of both freedom and control that mark his greatest paintings such as Number 15.

With its thin, delicate tracery of black threading throughout the strokes of whites and filaments of shifting color forms, Number 15 is a fitting culmination of Tomlin's career.By inclination a superb colorist, Tomlin reduced his palette from 1945 to 1947, and focused first on the painterly mark, adapting a calligraphic technique within a vaguely Cubist structure of horizontals and verticals.

His paintings — depicting lush and evocative landscapes populated by figures and animals — are as much about colour, the slippery nature of memory and the visual pleasure of painterly mark - marking as they are about their often enigmatic subjects.

Intercepting the composition with this painterly mark - making, Alsoudani adds further complication to his disordered scenes, while highlighting the role of the human hand in the creation of violence.

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).

Graphic and painterly marks, pattern and hard - edge shapes, dim and saturated color coalesce in each work to achieve unexpected unities.

We see him rendering the calligraphic form that he understands only visually (and not as a system of written communication), into a system of painterly marks.»

Pop artists made something of a habit of lampooning the bravura brushwork of this previous generation, parodying their lofty aspirations to achieve authentic and unique artistic expression through the liberating excess of their painterly marks.

However nonchalant his painterly marks... read more... «Cy Twombly's juggling act»

By scanning and manipulating the painting, Photoshop puts distance between the original creation and the final work - his painterly mark becomes abstracted, adding a second layer to his already abstract, gestural work.

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

Through her painterly mark making, raw textured surface, large fields of color, and calligraphic details, Fitzgerald creates contemplative gestural abstractions with an emotional resonance.

His new paintings propel the artist's dexterity with painterly mark - making beyond concerns of spatial realism and the human figure into the viscerally abstract.

DS: In your wall - painting sculptural installations, such as your exhibition Hideout currently at Wave Hill, does sculpture become more of a kind of painterly mark - making for you?

Bakers» paintings occupy playful territory using loose, abstract, painterly marks to construct comical references.

The complex shapes and the colorful, painterly marks of more recent work refer to the gestural abstract art of the 1950s.

A rare opportunity to glimpse Thomas's process and signature aesthetic which she developed in her 70s, the exhibition «illuminates the tension between formal structure and the vitality of the painterly mark.»

These are works that do not deal — despite the painterly marks and the layers acrylic's luminosity — with surface but with depth.

For his first solo exhibition with the gallery, Kent Williams propelled his dexterity with painterly mark - making beyond spatial realism into the viscerally abstract.

The painterly marks she makes across surfaces from transparent cellophane and polythene to crumpled, matt sugar paper bear the tracks of her own hand, be it through splashing, staining, rubbing or rolling.

And unlike his Abstract Expressionist forebears, for whom the painterly mark was often an index of the individual artist creating against the pressures of the external world — a reassuring gesture against the anonymity of modern times — Bradford's self - articulation emerges through the found objects of his modern environment.