Sentences with phrase «spattered abstract»

Whether painted over snow - capped mountains in Ruscha's signature all - caps lettering or drawn atop delicately spattered abstract backgrounds, Kerouac's words provide the artist with a means to explore his own archetypal landscape.

Not exact matches

Cy Twombly, heir to Jackson Pollock, left for Rome in the 1950s and has kept the flame of abstract expressionism alive with his smeary spatters and oozy blotches.

We are not accustomed to focusing on something so small in a large abstract painting, unless as in a painting by Pollock it is the chance spattering of a more expansive gesture.

Michelangelo, with an eye trained to the material weight of color, might have been comfortable with this form of sculptural painting, even if Tsao's abstract language is more akin to the late 1950s New York School, with Pollock's spattering giving way — at certain turns of mood or emotion — to sublime color fields reminiscent of Helen Frankenthaler or Ellsworth Kelly.

He was simultaneously making esoteric, quasi-theosophical compositions, startling drip and spatter paintings that anticipate abstract expressionism, and poetic landscapes.

In a peroxide wig, a clown's nose, giant rubber hands and a hospital gown with nothing underneath, McCarthy plays the role of a demented abstract expressionist, spattering ketchup all over the place and probing the canvas with his phallic brush until it is thoroughly punctured.

And surely Hoyland's best work was not late in life, when it also became far less abstract, a far more literal «presentation» of splashes, spatters and stripes..