Tariku dove headfirst into the waves over and over, popping up with his arms outstretched toward
the sky in a gesture of pure joy.
Mira Dancy's gorgeous, joyful mural of a reclining female nude, for instance, takes off across from the ecstasy of feminist artist Mary Beth Edelson's Woman Rising (1973), a black - and - white photograph in which a woman stands in an open desert, her arms stretched out toward
the sky in a gesture of empowerment and freedom that is reinforced by a V - shaped line of contrails in the sky.
Not exact matches
During Celtic's 5 - 1 win over their bitter rivals, Sinclair bagged himself the opening goal of the game from the penalty spot and as he and his teammates celebrated,
Sky Sports picked up one fan
in the background making a monkey
gesture.
In all his works here we see the back and forth between what the eye gleans from this world of light, shadow, color, form, people, trees,
skies, water and all the elements of objective reality, and what the artist asserts of his feelings, as revealed by
gestures, color and movements of paint through actions that depict the artist's inner world.
Arman chose the earth, Pascal, words, while Klein chose the ethereal space surrounding the planet, which he then proceeded to sign: With this famous symbolic
gesture of signing the
sky, Klein had foreseen, as
in a reverie, the thrust of his art from that time onwards a quest to reach the far side of the infinite.
Matias Cuevas,
Gestures for a Brand New
Sky # 13, 2015 Carpet, carpet trim, paint thinners, fire, and acrylic artist's stretcher 26 x 20
in
Paglen is currently working with aerospace engineers to develop and launch Orbital Reflector, a reflective sculpture that will be visible
in the night
sky — the first satellite to exist purely as an artistic
gesture.
«Polarities» (1972), for example, plotted out graphic
gestures by Oppenheim's father and daughter using red magnesium flares, stretching over 150 metres long,
in Bridgehampton, New York, while «Whirlpool - Eye of the Storm» (1973) used an aeroplane discharging white smoke to create a three - quarter mile diameter vortex
in the
sky.
With their performative sense of
gesture, these paintings should be seen
in relation to the ongoing
Sky Art projects.