Sentences with phrase «through brushstroke»

The best - case scenario is when I'm painting, it feels as if I'm feeling that object through the brushstroke, or I'm reimagining what it means to be that object, in paint, so a lot of what I'm after is this correspondence between the object and the paint mediated through me.»

The vision of the painter and the subjects that they depict are figured through brushstroke, color and texture.

But unlike the artists of whom Wilde wrote — who see the world through the brushstrokes of other painters until, via their own brushstrokes, they compel the world to reproduce the types they have invented — Bloom wants to claim that Shakespeare's invention of human types came from himself and himself only, from a «preternatural ability,» without relying «on authority, or authorities.»

He believes in letting his subconscious reveal itself through brushstrokes, commenting: «I savour slips of the hand that express one's unconscious feelings about the person being painted» — a risqué strategy when painting politicians!

From now on, painting would have to reflect on exactly what it means to present reality through brushstrokes.

By placing groups of female figures — or the solitary ones — in the distance, tucked behind flowers or in off - beat locations in scenes partially obscured through brushstrokes, Iliatova creates a state of ambiguity.

Not exact matches

Also, tasty popsicles on the High Line, Van Gogh's delicious brushstrokes at the Met, morning and evening walks through Central Park, and a bit of summer thunderstorms thrown into the mix.

The story is wafer thin; it is the most positive spin on Barnum's life told through very broad brushstrokes, and whenever someone is about to do a bit of real acting (starting to get vaguely emotional) they spontaneously burst in to song!

With regrets to Pierre Thoretton's understated but chilly L'amour fou, which comes at its subject through the reminiscences of his lifelong professional and personal partner Pierre Berge, Bonello's project is almost certainly the most fetching (thanks in no small part to costume designer Anais Romand), marrying a contemporary fixation on the limits of biographical storytelling with the sort of impressionist brushstrokes the Matisse devotee might have appreciated.

It is incredible that someone could convey so much humanity, simply through a few clever brushstrokes.

A big canvas called Magic Hour is an exuberant, semiabstract landscape seen through a framework of loosely painted brushstrokes.

Her portraits are defined by precise outlines, expressive brushstrokes, and her use of color to bring out the personalities of her subjects, particularly through their clothing.

These deft brushstrokes do not simply deposit paint; the stiff bristles cut through the thinned paint, combing it over and into the still - wet pigment beneath.

The painting could be read as twist on the idiom «breeding like rabbits,» fusing innocence, eroticism, humor, and death through the artist's frenetic brushstrokes.

However, the gestural brushstroke, the evidence of fingers being dragged through the paint, or a drip of contrasting color, breaks the viewers interaction and draws them in to examine the intricate evidence of the artist's hand at play.

Her explorations of form and composition, color and gesture give rise to a compelling language of abstraction where her ideas and feelings about the inner life are projected through organic shapes and energetic brushstrokes.

Five paintings structured after works by Kandinsky and Malevich — McElheny's Crystalline Prism Painting I, II, III, IV, and VI — feature press - molded and polished glass prisms inset into a field of black, matte oil paint brushstrokes, visible behind or through a surface made of a sheet of «museum glass».

Bold brushstrokes tear through delicately painted passages, producing intricately layered tumultuous surfaces.

Working in tactile layers with impassioned, energetic brushstrokes, Brown relishes the fluid, viscous properties of the medium, conjuring flickering human traces through abstract painterly dynamism.

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.

This spontaneous activity was the «action» of the painter, through arm and wrist movement, painterly gestures, brushstrokes, thrown paint, splashed, stained, scumbled and dripped.

Entitled Tworkov Paints a Picture, the piece walked readers through Tworkov's approach to painting and demystified abstraction by presenting it as a deliberate process in which an artist uses color, line, and flame - like brushstroke to express a subject, much like in figural representation.

The compositions feature large clumps of broad back - and - forth gray and white brushstrokes — think of whitewashed windows or rubbed - out chalk on blackboards — through which wander black spray - painted lines of varying thickness that suggest bent rebar or mangled wire coat hangers.

The result is at once a strikingly resonant contemporary and yet evanescent image, that through the collage of canvas also engages with the history of distorted form and the constructive brushstrokes of post-impressionist painting.

In these works, his process produces a timeless effect: the swirling brushstrokes could be the winds of antiquity blowing through one of Tintoretto's Venetian archways.

His four decades of «Brushstrokes» ran through January 12, 2002, at Mitchell - Innes & Nash.

«He shocked his contemporaries with loose brushstrokes and vibrant colours,» says art critic Alastair Sooke as he walks through galleries at Tate Britain, an institution he describes as «the storehouse of Turner's artistic legacy».

The layering of different colors of paint through his repetitive brushstrokes allowed him to explore both subtle shifts in color, and bold palette changes.

Studying their paintings in museums, he started from digitally manipulated photographs and through his characteristic approach created images that allow recognition of the original artwork, but still making visible details of the complex surface, the tactility of the paint, the brushstrokes and the pattern of the canvas.

Through his use of gestural brushstrokes, Paul created inherent motion within his works, leading many art historians to name him the first action painter and a precursor to the abstract expressionists of the 1950s.

Honoring traditional Asian arts through her use of Hanji paper, Korean silk, and calligraphic brushstrokes, she plays with iconography and symbols that have been classified as «foreign» such as blue and white china patterns, fortune cookies (which originated in California but are identified as Chinese), Korean fans, and floating dragons and intermingles them with references to Pop and southern folk art.

Her practice began with her early studies of New York Abstract Expressionism and American Minimalism and developed into a highly refined vocabulary that merges traits normally thought to be irreconcilable: gestural brushstrokes reminiscent of early influences like Willem de Kooning; precise geometric compositions evoking Josef Albers; and a palette reduced through Donald Judd - like discipline.

Though many artists share a comparable approach in portraying the painted subject, Yanai works within a different cognitive space; He paints with fine and calculated brushstrokes in an existential manner, with every mark laid down through a detailed application, keeping layering to a minimum.

Through the influence of pop - culture, books, art history, but most importantly nature, Smith's abstract paintings are often created by minimalistic tools, such as loose brushstrokes in his Rain Paintings, or form camouflage - style patterns, resembling Andy Warhol's production, in his Tigres series.

As contemporary art and culture continue to evolve, Davis and Joseph illuminate lesser - known vantage points through works where, like Davis» brushstrokes, the aesthetics are just the beginning of a story that extends much deeper than art.

This kinetic composition is composed of visceral markings, each with their own energy, held together as a collective through the connection one brushstroke has with another.

Kline's reduction of palette was indeed instrumental in the development of his individual style among the Abstract Expressionists as it allowed him to more fully explore form through line and brushstroke, seeking to define space and movement in an abstract idiom.

He observes, for example, the way in which the artist worked through composition or brushstroke and he reconstructs the work using his own visual language.

Through lush brushstrokes and a graphic sensitivity, her understanding of color and pattern imbue her work with passion and magic.

In this body of work the artist explores themes of women's subjugation, home, and loss through an exuberant palette and painterly brushstroke.

Through amazing technical skills, she makes memorable faces characterized by clean brushstrokes.

Through the use of bold, gestural brushstrokes and colors, she attaches personal emotions to imagery like those of the animals or portraits of humans, evoking both simplicity and the complexity of expression.

American Impressionism began to come into its own in the late 19th century, at a time when American collectors began to value the style of French Impressionists, and appreciate their depictions of every - day middle class life, through the use of natural light and flickering brushstrokes.

While Rogers continues to de-stabilize and undermine his paintings through his layers upon layers of veils of watery colorful depth asserting themselves against concentrated solid formations, drips, daps, and splashes, he creates an immediacy found in Abstract Expressionism and a fluidity of action with a definitive brushstroke.

Here the interview with Max Frintrop (1982, Oberhausen, Germany), who analyzes the spatial properties of color and form building abstract compositions through heavy brushstrokes.

While her paintings go through a reductive process on a careful palate, her brushstrokes are nuanced and intentional.

Each painting depicts a lush landscape that's visible only through the narrow «window» of a single, unpainted swipe in the shape of a brushstroke.

The first Lichtenstein gallery show since 1997, Roy Lichtenstein: Brushstrokes, Four Decades will be on view at the Madison Avenue gallery from November 1, 2001 through January 12, 2002.

Applying pigments to his canvases using a palette knife, he began to saturate his paintings with expressive swathes of luminous color achieved through wide, rhythmical brushstrokes, which he then contrasted with raw, but graceful, lines that pulsated with emotion — a practice that he would continue to pursue for the remainder of his career.

She and the gallery parted ways — neither felt is was the right match — and those double - sided paintings have now been embraced by curators for the way they form a meticulous duet of surfaces, with brushstroke on one side bleeding through to factor into the composition on the other.