Sentences with phrase «size of an abstract expressionist painting»

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Although he may be better known for his larger - than - life - sized, grisaille, figural paintings, Alfred Leslie spent the 1950s working in an abstract expressionist vein, creating paintings of explosive color as well as small - scale abstract works on paper.

In the late 1940s, Motherwell embraced the tenets associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement: the canvas as an arena in which the artist engages spontaneously and passionately in the physical and mental action of painting; the composition, often monumental in size, charged with feeling; the abstract forms suggesting deep, open - ended meanings.

Studying the work of American abstract expressionists such as Helen Frankenthaler, an artist who poured thinned paint directly on larger than life - sized canvases on the floor in her Color Field works, Olivier similarly engaged in a process of coaxing acrylic paint to spread and drip in brilliantly hued pools, more characteristic in watercolor.