Sentences with phrase «refined painterly technique»

Using a refined painterly technique inspired by the Hudson River School and traditional figure painting, Cotton paints utopian landscapes and portraits, often composed of sugary desserts inhabited by female figures.

It was Monet, however, who adhered most closely to the practice of plein - air methods, continuing to refine his painterly techniques (even when plagued with failing eyesight) in his monumental series of water lily paintings completed in his garden at Giverny, until in death in 1926.

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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).

In 1960, Hofmann was at the height of his creative powers, as he refined and distilled his painterly technique and its underlying principles.