Robert Motherwell (1915 - 91) produced some works combining fields of
painterly surfaces with gestural shapes (eg.
Postmodernism deprived painting of originality and first - hand experience at the same time that Greenberg's disembodied abstraction, addressed to eyesight alone, collided with the desire on the part of some artists to retain the wholeness of the aesthetic experience made available by the old masters in their fusion of the haptic quality of sensuous
painterly surfaces with the optical melding of colour and light.
Rauschenberg's Bed, 1955, was an entirely new species of art, fusing a flat
painterly surface with a 3 - dimensional object.
Not exact matches
The painting is an example of Phelan's early work which sought to reconcile
painterly abstraction
with process based minimalism, but in this context the cut
surface feels more desperate, as if the painter were punching a hole through which to breathe.
In that period I was beginning to consider painting
with oil and both Jensen's scraped, palette knifed
surfaces and the
surfaces of Hartley's late works,
painterly and sculptural also, even when relatively thin, were both helpful mentors in my transition to this difficult rich medium.
[30][31][32] The late 1960s saw painters turning to
surface inflection, deep space depiction, and
painterly touch and paint handling merging
with the language of color.
Her work,
with painterly touches, features borders and stripes over unbalanced
surfaces and dramatic contusions that disrupt the composition.
Furthermore, he insisted that the painting is nothing more than a flat
surface with some paint on it, completely avoiding any symbolic qualities that some believed are the essential core of the
painterly compositions.
The color contrasts are startling, as in «Yellow Half» (1963), a canvas nearly six feet square
with a solid V of vibrant red bordered by lemon yellow and then a more subtle red, the whole set on a stark black ground; that is, the ground forms two right triangles on either side of the V. Characteristically, Mr. Noland later went back to these V's, as in «Songs: Indian Love Call» (1984), but this time
with very
painterly effects, crumpling the flat
surfaces with broken strokes of thick pigment.
These works, in monumental size and scale, engulf viewers
with their expansive,
painterly surfaces that depict moments of intense observation in the landscape — what Katz describes as «flashes» of perception or «quick things passing.»
With its vibrant palette of warm golden colors and a surface infused with painterly passion, Joan Mitchell's luxurious canvas, Blueberry, belongs to a group of significant works which demonstrate the artist's unrivaled skill at producing paintings which evoke the rich emotions of nature and landsc
With its vibrant palette of warm golden colors and a
surface infused
with painterly passion, Joan Mitchell's luxurious canvas, Blueberry, belongs to a group of significant works which demonstrate the artist's unrivaled skill at producing paintings which evoke the rich emotions of nature and landsc
with painterly passion, Joan Mitchell's luxurious canvas, Blueberry, belongs to a group of significant works which demonstrate the artist's unrivaled skill at producing paintings which evoke the rich emotions of nature and landscape.
Through such means, Walker's paintings balance realistic landscapes
with painterly abstraction, attending equally to space and
surface.
With his innovative painterly technique, Riopelle created sparkling, energetic surfaces with thick impasto and vivid col
With his innovative
painterly technique, Riopelle created sparkling, energetic
surfaces with thick impasto and vivid col
with thick impasto and vivid colors.
By tenderly examining the
surfaces of their works, one can reconstruct the
painterly decisions, additions, revisions, and erasures that lead to the finished image and thereby reconstruct the narrative by which the artists fall in love
with their own work.
Rejecting the expressionist attitude traditionally associated
with the
painterly gesture, Stingel intentionally has Stingel's studio assistants construct the sumptuous
surface.
From afar, Untitled appears like a trompe l'oeil; however, upon closer consideration, the photographic realism dissolves into a
painterly abstraction composed from a meticulous system of thick, accrued brushstrokes that endow the
surface with a textured physicality.
Often the
surface is shared up
with a blade or stylus, invoking a series of mannered provocations between
painterly elements.
The final shape is the result of a complex
painterly process that aims to bring
surface proportions, color distributions and
surface quality in line
with the motif.
Her reductive, linear paintings from this period were created in dialogue
with Brice Marden's monochrome grounds and Jasper John's
painterly surfaces.
Instead of a direct translation from tablet screen to paper
surface, Fischer's process imbues the digital image
with an analog tactility; in some places, his
painterly gestures loosen, revealing patches of the shiny aluminum beneath.
Varying in scenery and painting techniques, the first were loose
painterly exploration of aerial photographs of cities and townscapes, then mountain landscapes and park scenes
with their hard - edge textured paint
surfaces.
Through Gupta's
painterly treatment, the ruptured bottoms begin to resemble celestial beings,
with their
surfaces resembling planetary environments.
A Nashville resident whose work has been exhibited and collected internationally, Jack Spencer alters the
surfaces of his photographs
with techniques suggestive of painting — rich tones and colors, softly - focused or veiled forms, slight imperfections and
painterly textures.
However their fluid
painterly style, employing glazes and scraped
surfaces, veers away from pop art and flows instead into nature abstracted
with an impish edge.
In her lavish and
painterly works Homer strews fields of flowers across
surfaces rich
with incident and creamy impasto.
Perhaps it's something like Pensato's paintings — animal and «human» personages anthropomorphized into the barest semblances of themselves, erased (to use Pensato's own language), and re-represented, brutally, in the grammar of «high» art,
with the
painterly strokes and complex
surfaces of abstract expressionism.
The large glossy
surfaces are scattered
with drips, leaks, cracks, discolorations and folds which are subtle traces of the parallel and unpoetic
painterly reality of the materials Rhodes employs.
Resembling small, imaginary landscapes or futuristic ruins, the
surface of these sculptures are deliberately finished
with patterns of brushstrokes evoking a poetic,
painterly feel.
Susan Homer makes delicious paintings
with lush
painterly surfaces that are rich in romanticism.
Dupont writes: «Serra's use of paintstick and insistence on drawing as black poses an interesting dichotomy
with the metal plates of his sculpture... the
surfaces [of his sculptures] are in fact incredibly
painterly,
with texture and color on a thin skin that is delightful in spite of what I am sure is Serra's desire to the contrary... The irony of the paintstick drawings is that the works
with literal paint are less «
painterly» than those mad of lead and steel plates.
In painting Temple Hum, she continues, «
painterly surfaces merge and commune
with one another — visual sensations advance and recede to create a sense of depth.
In Untitled (P 492), Wool employs the silkscreen technique to mechanically reproduce the image of his earlier work where he used a spray gun in order to achieve a rich
painterly surface filled
with movement.
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.
Richter counters the gesture of Abstract Expressionism
with completely neutral
surfaces and vibrant textures that he does not draw from his subjective responses but, conceptually, from the fundamental possibilities of
painterly forming.
The 60s paintings are often packed tighter
with more angles and movement, while the newer paintings are more open
with a combination of flat and
painterly brush strokes and
surfaces that frequently include circular shapes.
The mixture of traditional painting and printing techniques John Bauer employs results in an illusionary
painterly surface that engages viewers
with its forms and keeps them guessing as to their origin.
We've long been touting the sophistication and
painterly approach that Mike takes
with the
surface finish of his work, something that undoubtedly opened the doorway for his inclusion in this highly competitive issue of painters from the West Coast.
The photograph has been retouched
with paint on its
surface — the ruffles on the left shoulder, for instance, have been enhanced by
painterly strokes.38 The face paint on Nijinsky as well as the paint on the photograph must have served as encouragement for Kline.
There is a lot that can be done
with a flat, bounded
surface, even if each artist's
surface of choice might vary, materially, along a continuum that extends from the time - worn
painterly convention of canvas through to industrially - sourced Dibond aluminum panels.
On its vast
painterly surface four intertwined scenarios unfold between the almost lost mathematical greed, created by sixty wooden panels, that over float
with coloured wax.
Concrete works, their
surfaces hacked and molded into the impression of a thick impasto, are emblazoned
with a range of emotive colors, forcing an oscillation between the heft of the material and the pure ecstatic
painterly surface.
Through her
painterly mark making, raw textured
surface, large fields of color, and calligraphic details, Fitzgerald creates contemplative gestural abstractions
with an emotional resonance.
In contrast to the self contained power - figures, the walls are peppered
with paintings on paper which, having a soft, velvety
surface and flowing lines, evoke a vulnerable tenderness and exquisite
painterly quality.
«If you have seen... many of Hofmann's paintings, you will have seen certain attributes persisting: bright color,
painterly surface, impulsive... You will also have seen many puzzling things: the stylistic variety, abutting complimentary colors which never become garish or «optical,»
surfaces jam - packed
with agitated pigment which somehow turn serene, icy greens exuding warmth.»
In intimate semi-abstract oils on linen, Liliane Tomasko's
painterly gestures squirm across the
surface with a rhythmic elegance.
Working the garden
with a shovel, «[an] object made by anonymous hands», becomes intimate as you move the soil
with the
painterly surface of Jim Dine's Shovel, 1975.
The transparent ink marks and the mirror - like golden
surface of the drawings play
with the
painterly convention of figure - in - the - landscape by superimposing the viewer's distorted reflection into the image.
His colorful geometric patterns play
with the unique curves, undulations, and knots of the wood's
surface, resulting in an unexpected conversation between organic form and
painterly gesture.
Artists of the 1960s responded to the
painterly character of Abstract Expressionism
with a cool, linear approach absent of personalized brushwork, refocusing attention on the flat
surface of the canvas and applying pigment consistently to achieve «an all - overness.»
Another painting, Insile (2013) built up from a photo image of Believers» Palace amid civilian buildings, activates its
surface with painterly ink gestures, blurring and effacing the ruins beneath.