Through their influence, Kline narrowed his focus, exploring the nature of brush strokes in large -
scale action paintings that consisted of a simplified, black and white palette.
Not exact matches
Oscar Murillo's large -
scale paintings imply
action, performance, and chaos, but are in fact methodically composed of rough - hewn, stitched canvases that often incorporate fragments of text as well as studio debris such as dirt and dust.
The Museum Ludwig showcases her entire oeuvre in the artist's first - ever survey exhibition with over 120 works ranging from
action - based objects from the 1990s to lacquer
paintings, photographs, works on paper, video essays, anthropomorphic sculptures, performative pieces, and large -
scale installations.
Using a «found» Korean
action thriller by director Kim Jee Woon, entitled A Bittersweet Life (2005), Webster works with
paint and encaustic wax on large and small -
scale film stills (computer - generated screenshots), which have been printed onto synthetic and slippery digital canvas.
This is 21st century
action painting, cousin to last century's version in its physicality, its conflation of internal and external realities and its
scale.
Artists such as Nevelson and David Smith became known for large -
scale outdoor sculptures and public art, while Aaron Siskind sought to capture the same kind of energy and movement in his photography that Pollock was attempting to evoke through
action painting.
Leaving these forms unpolished, he assembled them with chains, ropes, and double T - girders to create dynamic large -
scale structures that echo the gestural nature of
action painting.
The resulting compositions are determined as much by the
scale of the glass units Harman happens to find, and the often unpredictable interaction between the leftover
paints he injects into the cavities, as by any deliberate
action of the artist.
The Abstract Expressionists» fervent mark - making came to signify the artists» existential struggles and, particularly in the case of large -
scale paintings, heroic
actions.
Essenhigh's large
scale paintings create an enigmatic world in which animated
action figures are cast alongside mythological characters and the demimonde in roles where time - honoured human concerns such as patriotism,...
Traditionally, history
painting refers to large
scale canvases that depicted an important event or
action involving several people.
In the 1970s, attempting to free himself from what had become a signature style, Loving began destroying his hard - edged cube
paintings and stitching the torn strips of canvas together to create large -
scale, brightly colored geometric compositions, an
action that echoed the quilting he had studied as a child.
The main component styles included: the animated all - over
Action -
Painting (developed by Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner); Gestural
Painting (developed by Willem de Kooning); Colour Field
Painting (practised by Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still), and «Hard - Edge
Painting» (invented by Frank Stella), most of which were executed on a monumental
scale.
Murillo is widely recognized for his large -
scale paintings that imply
action, performance, and chaos, but are in fact methodically composed of rough - hewn, stitched canvases, which often incorporate fragments of text as well as studio debris such as dirt and dust.
«Each
painting captures a small
action, as few as two strokes of the brush, and blows them up to a macro
scale.
On the ground floor, there are a series of large -
scale canvases, part of the artist's
Action Paintings body of work.
The most oft - repeated story about Kline's evolution into an abstract master is this one: He was already making gestural
action paintings, albeit on a small
scale.
In addition to his favourite hobby of copying the narrative «
action»
paintings of Old Masters, he specialized in small -
scale detailed works of landscape
painting, executed in oils, containing a number of human subjects and typically several features of topographical or other interest, including crowds or military scenes.
For the exhibition at Palazzo Grimani, Barkat has begun work - ing on a large
scale, using painterly gestures that recall
action painting.