Sentences with phrase «symbolic painted gestures»

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Unlike his contemporaries, such as Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman whose art expressed an urge to transcendence, Kline was focused on pure abstract forms and gesture itself, deprived of any symbolic character or «painting experience».

Symbolically, Klein jumped out the window: he was involved with gesture, process (his «women brushes» painting with their bodies) and the symbolic (sponges soaked with his paint on monochromatic blue canvases).

The distinctive practice of Cy Twombly merges drawing, painting, writing, and symbolic gesture in the pursuit of a direct, intuitive form of expression.

Consistent with his past work, Haggerty maintains in these paintings a focus on the dynamic gesture of line that embodies not actual objects, but rather, actions or occurrences, like letters or other symbolic abstractions.