Sentences with phrase «sweeping gesture like»

One of the great illusions of the climate movement has always been that the problem would or could be solved with a grand, sweeping gesture like a climate tax or a binding international agreement.

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His visceral engagement with emotions, thoughts and other intangibles gives his abstract imagery extraordinary immediacy, while his skilful use of fluid pigment, applied with dance - like movements and sweeping gestures that seldom actually touched the surface, broke decisively with tradition.

Neo-Expressionism, the last of the truly famous movements to sweep the art world, arose in the late 1970s as a reaction against the austere, cerebral cool of Minimalism and Conceptual art, combining richly applied paint and attention - grabbing artistic gestures in an attempt to revive the hotter heroics of painters like van Gogh and the Abstract Expressionists.

Situated like a minimal but graceful, sweeping gesture in a wooded area in Sweden, it deliberately distinguishes itself from other more cube - like microhouses.

But you don't have to make grand gestures like sweeping them off to a second honeymoon to have a healthy relationship.