Sentences with phrase «sweeping brushstrokes»

Even in his most abstracted compositions, characterized by saturated color and sweeping brushstrokes, Appel retained a relationship with figuration, as in Birds over the Village.

This canvas is the most textural and painterly in the series, as Richter used sweeping brushstrokes with the oils he'd become used to in his work.

Action painting, direct, instinctual, and highly dynamic kind of art that involves the spontaneous application of vigorous, sweeping brushstrokes and the chance effects of dripping and spilling paint onto the canvas.

New York - based artist Jacqueline Humphries» new large - scale works contain rows upon rows of tiny, printed symbols, emoticons and kaomoji which form the background music to large energetic crescendos of sweeping brushstrokes and dynamic colors.

In his sweeping brushstrokes and analysis of animal coloration was an underlying concern about protection from a dangerous world.

Board sweeping brushstrokes quickly adumbrate the figure's cross arms and her thick head of hair.

She has never stopped painting, always abstracting from fruit stands or saints or museum masterpieces, trying out thin washes, sweeping brushstrokes, expressive drawing masked by repetitive drips.

Patterns found in nature appear frequently as the inspiration for art, including the hexagonal tiles of Islamic art and the sweeping brushstrokes of Chinese landscape painting.

Her compositions, calligraphic rhythms, bold colors and sweeping brushstrokes reflect and transform the elements of Mitchell's interior landscape: water, sky, trees, flowers, weather, dogs, people, and places.

Since that time, Osborne's paintings have become bolder and increasingly veer towards painterly abstraction as her sweeping brushstrokes now create the structure of the canvases.

Soon, she was making towering canvases characterized by sweeping brushstrokes that often merged into dense swarms of torrid, sensuous color inspired by annual winter trips to Haiti and the Virgin Islands.

To create her large - scale pieces, she lays unstretched canvas on the floor of her Brooklyn studio (à la Pollock) and then attacks it with sweeping brushstrokes, taped - off geometrical passages, and Rorschach - like splotches (made by allowing paint to pool and then folding over the canvas with a tight crease).

Growling, mask - like features appear to emerge from Fecundity (1960), while the mix of thick and thin, sweeping brushstrokes and splatters of paint of Uncaged (1960) creates a mass of energy.

Both works exhibit a physical movement of wiping out, simultaneously erasing and creating with each sweeping brushstroke.

Agrigento (1961), in the monumental simplicity of the monochromatic hue and the wide sweeping brushstroke, suggests that in spite of Hofmann's complex artistic theories he was able to express a visual experience directly with a minimal amount of intellectualizing.

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We sweep our judgmental brushstrokes across this Premier League weekend and come up with five glaringly obvious things that we'll tell you anyway.

Our Amour Art is blooming in sweeping watercolor brushstrokes of pink, plum, mauve and hints of mineral on a soft ivory background.

The novel is visual to a painterly degree; events move carefully and slowly and simply, the sentences precise and deft as brushstrokes: «The beam of the lighthouse swept across the harbor.

On occasion, the downward flow from one brushstroke pushes through the stroke below it, creating an avalanche that threatens to sweep away much of the subsequent mark.

While Richter removed all brushstrokes from his portraits, making them closely resemble the encyclopedia photographs he used as models, Herzog instead embraces the hand with her long, sweeping, and visible strokes.

Richter applied the paint in thick brushstrokes, or with rollers and an aggressive sweep of a squeegee (ironically, a tool commonly used for window cleaning and clarifying one's scope of vision).

Joan Mitchell (born: Chicago, 1925) is known for the compositional rhythms, bold coloration, and sweeping gestural brushstrokes of her large and often multi-paneled paintings.

«The photograph is emphatically interrupted by the sweep of a brushstroke that reveals a glimpse of another picture — gleeful in its ability to show us more than initially meets the eye.»

Anyone familiar with the distinctive juxtaposition of industrial landscape and residential charm in San Francisco's southeastern neighborhoods will immediately recognize the sweeping views and sunlit hilltop crosswalks of Potrero Hill and Bernal Heights in Eileen David's delicate brushstrokes.

In other paintings, disconnected branches are isolated against abstract pink, purple, and black grounds of sweeping horizontal brushstrokes.

In Joan Mitchell's Hours, 1989, gestural brushstrokes sweep, tumble, crisscross and hover across the white ground, lyrically coalescing into an abstract landscape suffused in ultramarine blues, reds, greens and dappled with flashes of orange.