In Howe's case, the inaugural trope is a simple goof on the notorious figure / ground dichotomy: each canvas presents a «portrait» of a young woman, usually nude, as often black as white, done in a rather dashing,
painterly style reminiscent of the Ashcan School, against a ground that cites Abstract Expressionism or its immediate derivatives.
The series is printed as archival inkjet on highly textured watercolour paper giving the works
a painterly style reminiscent of early Japanese watercolours and a tactile quality that harks back to Pictorialist aesthetic values.
Not exact matches
Transistor is, by all outward appearances, a third - person action game with a story told primarily through narration (performed once again by Logan Cunningham) with a
painterly art
style reminiscent of Bastion.
Perhaps it's a question of shot selection, as Gray — who has a
painterly, shadowy visual
style, often
reminiscent of the great American films of the 1970s — has stuck to a largely emotional logic in earlier films; his compositions are wide or tight to reflect how characters feel.