Sentences with phrase «slashing brushstrokes»

Working in strong contrasts of light and shade, mass and void and angular slashing brushstrokes, the Artist's paintings pulsate with angst and frustration.

Similarly, the two vividly colored paintings from the 1990s at Cheim & Read (both called «Trees» and dated 1990 - 91) as well as the churning «Cypresses» from 1975 (which, like 1964's «First Cypress,» employs chrome green and black) concentrate more on their own making than on outside indicators, as slashing brushstrokes coagulate into groupings of unstable forms while carving out deep recesses of space.

The earliest pieces here, a series of large untitled canvases from the 1980s, featured layers of slashing brushstrokes and splattered pigment in vividly contrasting hues.

Cast a fresh eye, however, at the splashed paint and slashing brushstrokes.

Many are virtuoso displays of light and shadow with slashing brushstrokes that animate the surf as well as hair blowing in the breeze.»

At the exhibition's close was Recalling the Pain, a simple grouping of pieces of charred wood reminiscent of the slashing brushstrokes in a Franz Kline painting.

Not exact matches

«To me, a portrait is a representation of a person and a slash across a throat is the equivalent of a brushstroke.

Through unabashed brushstrokes and slashes of vibrant color, Frank's surrealistic dreamscapes disrupt the sacred space of the home and psyche, alluding to the cracked lens through which we view feminism, gender and equality.

In the latter, each painting is built up from a series of brushstrokes, exactly expressing the personality and feelings of the artist, rather than merely his technical competence: an approach exemplified by the Ming scholar - artist Xu Wei (1521 - 93), in his ink drawing Bamboo (1540, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Museum), which illustrates his technique of broad, bold slashes of ink and loosely executed lines.

In colors so bright as to be almost garish, the rough - hewn brushstrokes of Paul Thek's «Newspaper Paintings,» 1981 — 83 — featuring sprays of yellow polka dots, fields of pink, and slashes of electric blue — allow us, to varying degrees, to see the even type on the New York Times pages on which they were made.

Slashed with color and formed with eloquent brushstrokes, de Kooning's often huge canvases are charged with explosive energy; many are widely considered some of the masterpieces of abstract expressionism.

Shutz, a white woman, painted him in his casket, his face «slashed» with brushstrokes.)