Sentences with phrase «sweeping gestures defined»

Willem de Kooning, whose whiplash lines and sweeping gestures defined «action painting» in the popular imagination nearly as much as Jackson Pollock's drips, is said to have painted in a frenzy for a rolling camera, only to scrape it all out when the filming stopped because the reality of how he worked — painting a stroke, then staring at it for a few hours — seemed too dull to film.