Sentences with phrase «spontaneous gesture»

As I work through the paintings I add spontaneous gestures of both organic and geometric forms - expressions that embrace intuitive and image - centred ways of thinking.

Ahkami relives the spirit of the dance floor in her studio, by getting lost in spontaneous gestures, flamboyant poses, and a riot of rhythmic patterns.

Its members interact with sets made of scaffolding, mirrors, and colorful partitions, often interrupting staticky, minimal soundscapes with spontaneous gestures.

Memories are woven together with filaments and tendrils, the sway of a branch or the curve of a river's course; layers of improvised painterly processes all spilling forth in expressive spontaneous gestures — intricate layers of technique and images, the forms taking shape as though guided by an external impulse.

While Pollock developed a bent - over, dance - like motion to lay down multiple skeins of paint onto canvases lying on the floor, de Kooning stood up and back before lunging, writing the book on spontaneous gesture painting.

Only an in - depth examination of his oeuvre reveals an as - yet undeciphered system of signs or repertoire that repeatedly evokes Mediterranean culture, myths, literature, and history through spontaneous gestures and minimalistic notations.

Each painting is born out of graceful, rapid and spontaneous gestures as the artist instinctively confronts the blank canvas, adding colors in distinct touches, moving back and forth, finding solutions or renouncing as one brushstroke naturally follows another, gaining in precision until they impart a feeling of movement that reaches out beyond the painting.

We feel his happiness because we know that he's earned it, and Sandler handles his brief, spontaneous gestures of optimism as deftly as his rage.

He felt ideas about component parts had been abandoned erroneously by the AbEx artists, who replaced pictorial organization with spontaneous gesture.

The first one was Action Painting (Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning), where the artist used expressive spontaneous gestures to splash paints and to draw lines.

Though Gedney's work has its roots in spontaneous gesture and visual imagination rather than observation from nature, it has a capaciousness that includes suggestions of figures and landscape.

All of these spontaneous gestures occur only because of a fundamental trust that reality is valuable and that our lives are worth living.10

Unlike handwriting, they note, waving is a spontaneous gesture that is not influenced by social pressure.

They also found that early gesture — the spontaneous gestures children produce to communicate before and as they are learning to use words — can be used to identify which children with brain injury are likely to go on to develop spoken vocabularies within the typical range, and which children are likely to continue to experience language delay.

I like the duality and absurdity sometimes present when pretty rigid language comes up against a spontaneous gesture.

I could not approach closely enough to be lost in the spontaneous gesture of «action painting.»

Their paintings demonstrate each artist's adaptation of an Abstract Expressionist approach — spontaneous gesture, subjective imagery, and emotional content — seen in relation to American precedents and contemporaneous European trends such as l'art informel and Spatialism.

«By the early 1980s, Brodsky's approach involved an exploration of flattened pictorial space built up from layers of pigment that create an overall surface pattern of light and shade, the whole animated by energetic ribbons of color that dance across the canvas as a record of the artist's spontaneous gesture, attesting to his engagement with the process of painting itself,» wrote Chalif.

- On November 7, Atiku will orchestrate a live performance of his work — wrapping himself in a richly hued fabric and leading a troop of performers from exterior spaces into the galleries as they perform choreographed and spontaneous gestures that elicit collective reflection on global disputes and crises.

Selections from the Lyric Suite series of ink drawings on rice paper are examples of Robert Motherwell's use of automatic drawing — one of the defining techniques in Surrealism, and spontaneous gesture in his work.

Working within a specific format, I use these elements with an interplay of structure and spontaneous gesture.

Although the so - called color - field painters focused on the sublime and contemplative qualities of color (think of Rothko's rectangular floating forms) they had a lot more in common with the spontaneous gestures of the action - painters than had previously been realised.

The resulting artworks are playful in nature with bright geometric blocks of colour and spontaneous gestures.

Heidi Mumenthaler creates her paintings out of spontaneous gestures, her figures emerge in a kind of scenic self talk in which the artist reflects...

Exploring the limits between drawing and sculpture as well as the relationships between emptiness and fullness that stem from her spontaneous gestures, Pierrette Bloch would go off on an «adventure».

As the incision follows the impulsive and spontaneous gestures, they are rendered topological, hard - edged, and graphic — a slice reveals the heaped residue of a now dissolved process.

The spontaneous gestures used by Kinney in her paintings influence the hanging of the work; the installation — like a mosaic — begs a recognition of what the whole could be: if there is such a thing.

All of Mueske's works are greatly influenced by the spontaneous gestures made famous by the Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s.

Emphasizing emotional content, spontaneous gestures, and monumental size, the «AbEx» painters would change art forever.

But painting can do so much more than just record the spontaneous gestures of well - trained artists so it's not surprising that Ab - Ex went out of fashion, even for some of these painters.

Collapsing any distinction between the physical process of making the work and its visual content, these everyday tools provided the artist with a repertoire of ready - made imagery that avoided both spontaneous gesture and self - conscious compositional decisions.