Sentences with phrase «sweeping strokes of»

Here's to significant and wide - sweeping strokes of grace and encouragement in 2014, and beyond!

Grand Gestures explores the autographic mark, executed in sweeping strokes of brilliant color which became the expressive vehicle for Franz Kline, Michael Goldberg, Hans Hofmann, Sam Francis, Joan Mitchell and others who came to be known as abstract expressionists.

In Conceal, Reveal (2010), clean, sweeping strokes of cerulean blue frame a muddle of ochre and gray, bringing life and breath to colors that previously hung stale and stagnant.

Tomasko works and reworks the surface to reveal underlays of pastel washes, sweeping strokes of thick purple lines, and bold jewel - like colours.

By using macrophotography, which emphasizes the patterns and textures not normally visible to the naked eye, Carisch reveals an unseen world full of sweeping strokes of energetic color.

Less successful, Where Seldom is Heard a Discouraging Word features dashes of cobalt blue in the upper section and sweeping strokes of orange and yellow below.

Kote's trademarks are his bold brushwork, and sweeping strokes of vibrant colours applied - more often than not - with a pallet knife while other areas of the canvas are left monochromatic and devoid of detail creating a negative space that lets the eye drift to infinity.

From 1950 to 1955, he produced his well - known Women series, «integrating the human form with the aggressive paint application, bold colors, and sweeping strokes of Abstract Expressionism.

I prefer the sweeping strokes of the broadsword, but I can't say that it actually kills stuff better than the rapier or scythe.

In fact, 21 gives us perhaps the greatest whitewash in recent Hollywood history — a broad, sweeping stroke of Caucasian across the majority of the cast.

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Hartshorne himself writes with large strokes, with sweeping insight - his concern is to state his vision of God and then to look outward to other traditions and show the superiority of his own conception of God to alternative conceptions.

Using a rubber spatula, stir in wide strokes to mix, sweeping across the bottom of the bowl.

A zebra - striped bus unloaded a group of chattering Germans, who proceeded to surround the three rhinos, petting their mud - caked hides, stroking the heavy frontal horn of the big male and posing for fake matador shots — windbreakers sweeping in clumsy verónicas as the camera shutters buzzed.

But in the finals, with the weather improved, the Germans swept ahead on the Massachusetts lake at their unbelievable 50 - beat stroke and crossed the finish line a full length ahead of the first American.

The long sweeping strokes from the end of the appendages, up towards the heart, are supposed to help with circulation, promote relaxation and depending on how much pressure is used, to ease... Read More

HARTFORD — Flanked by family members of Newtown massacre victims and the legislative leaders who spent months trying to respond to their tragedy, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed a sweeping gun - control bill Thursday whose big provisions — such as a strengthened assault weapons ban — took effect with the stroke of his pen.

Finish the routine by stroking 10 times down the side of the neck from under the jaw down to the collarbone, doing a gentle sweep 10 times; that will encourage all the lymph and puffiness to drain out of the face.

Before you get into the shower, relax and take the brush in long, sweeping strokes, up the fronts and backs of your legs.

Do not scrub, massage, or rotate the brush on the body; just sweep it across the skin in long smooth strokes in the direction of the heart.

Gently stroke your skin in the direction of your heart using long, sweeping or circular motions.

Sweep it on from the inner corner to just before the arch using tiny strokes and going in the direction of the hair growth.

Soundtracked to the trembling, ethereal echo of a classical women's choir, the opening scenes swiftly establish the peaceful, slightly alienated conservatism of life on the British island of Jersey — the director's own home territory, and duly evoked with expansive, non-touristic sweep by cinematographer Benjamin Kračun in sharp strokes of seagrass hue.

Viewed from the side, the lines of DIVINE DS form a sharp sweep along the length of the car, with the first stroke of the designer's pen clearly visible.

The newly developed engine, known under the internal codename S55 B30, shares its 84.0 mm bore and 89.6 mm stroke with BMW's standard turbocharged 3.0 - liter in - line six - cylinder direct - injection gasoline mill, the M55 used across the German car maker's lineup, endowing the aluminum block unit with an overall swept volume of 2,979 cc.

Young's spare, sweeping brush strokes capture the dignity and spirit of Casanova's retelling of a poignant but ultimately uplifting Chinese folktale in which a hunter must sacrifice himself to save the people of his village.

Reaching far under, and passing the imprint left by the front foot, the hind foot takes hold of the ground; then hock, stifle and upper thigh come into play and sweep back, the stroke of the hind leg finishing with the foot still close to the ground in a smooth follow - through.

Krasner's «Kufic» (1965) unleashes sweeping golden brush strokes, reminiscent of Arabic script, on a straw - hued ground.

His sweeping broad strokes of individual color are revealed, and one realizes that Pentak leans far more toward abstraction than originally perceived.

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.

Instead of Dingle's typical palette of blue, sepia and grey, these compositions are rendered in a sugar sweet mélange of pastel yellows, ochres, greens and blues in a fanciful layering of both thin washes and sweeping, buttery strokes of oil paint à la Wayne Thiebaud.

Instead, enjoy Scott's brushwork, the brushy strokes, the energetic gestural markings, the sweeps and scribbles of colors that tumble and flow over one another.

In Bee's «Oadalisque,» rich tones of sienna and carmine are laid down in sweeping strokes surrounding the figure.

In contrast to the graphic, cartoon - like quality of Essenhigh's early works, the illusory depth of these paintings infuses the figures with a plausibility, yet the works remain true to the sweeping strokes and amorphous forms that have defined Essenhigh's visual vocabulary.

In Summer Loft, deep vibrational strokes of cadmium orange, blotches of vermillion and layers of hot pink and yellow washes bleed into one another, portraying a fluidity as evocative as the sweep of a bullfighter's cape.

The effect produced intriguing, water color - like, diaphanous sweeps of color that carried with them little evidence of a brush stroke.

For a second series of vertical abstractions, Mr. Frize utilizes brushes that are tied together to sweep over areas of multi-colored paint with a downward motion to construct rainbow - like strokes.

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.

The sweeping strokes and rapid brushwork of both impastoed and diluted paint are the result of considerable thought, and include numerous figural references to a variety of imagery including bridges, tunnels and coal - mining equipment, as well as calligraphy.

Where soft, sweeping brush strokes meet blocks of dense color and hard edges there is depth of composition, but also a stratigraphic layering of the artworks» evolution through moods, disjunctive thoughts, and pulsations of energy.

The large - scale, commanding presence of this great painting, with its sweeping, lyrical strokes and shimmering coloration belies the complicated and meticulous construction of its internal organization.

When a show of Thomas's work was held at Esther Stuttman Gallery, New York, in 1960, Donald Judd reviewed it for Arts Magazine, writing, «Wide brush strokes and sweeps of color glissade to the plane of the bare canvas.

In Untitled, Mitchell luxuriates in a vibrant spectrum of lush greens applied in sweeping, balletic strokes across a monumentally - scaled canvas.

Blocks of color, splatter, loose grids of varying line weight, washes and deft use of resist, occasional words and dates spelled in sweeping strokes — these are works that span available techniques and materials for potency and deliver the goods.

A point could almost be the opposite of a gesture, I'm thinking of pointillism where all those dots of colour negate the action of the sweeping brush stroke, yet once the dots are aggregated gestures of a sort do start to emerge.

They feature dark, clotty passages of dull, textured paint pulled across the expanses, some with a final topcoat of twisty, truncated strokes combed and swept across the pocky surfaces.