Kirkeby, like them, employs a full repertoire of
painterly marks while remaining confidently unfussed about using them «properly».
Not exact matches
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.
In her print Man Holding His Shadow (2011), she uses lithography, a medium at one remove from the artist's hand, to reflect on the limits of representation
while maintaining her
painterly style of
mark making.
The voracious sexuality and hallmark stylization of Picasso's depictions of women are evoked by the abstract
marks, speaking of a modernist
painterly machismo,
while the soft - focus female nudes establish woman as anonymous muse, sexual object and aesthetic ideal.
The black form in the bottom is painted in a choppy,
painterly manner reminiscent of the active gestural expressionism of Jackson Pollock or Franz Kline,
while the circle on top calls to mind the Color Field painting of Helen Frankenthaler or
Mark Rothko.