Sentences with phrase «towards painterly abstraction»

Since that time, Osborne's paintings have become bolder and increasingly veer towards painterly abstraction as her sweeping brushstrokes now create the structure of the canvases.

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Ideas and philosophies that challenged painterly conventions of the previous centuries, more specifically — deliberate departure from representational art towards pure abstraction — and invented a whole new language of expression.

Gerhard Richter's unrelenting urge to find new painterly languages moved him away from the figurative and towards an embrace of abstraction.

Beginning each painting with a low - tech computer drawing, Bauer develops his work through a complicated process incorporating hands - off painting techniques such as stenciling, silk - screening and spraying that translate digitized graphics towards sublime fields of painterly abstraction.

Unlike Ireland, where there seems to be a sympathy towards both the painterly and the abstract, Britain has long maintained a figurative tradition and held abstraction at arm's length.

This trend towards decorative, formalist painting - of which Newman was to a great extent a pioneer catalyst - was nicknamed Post Painterly Abstraction by Clement Greenberg, who in 1964 curated a special exhibition devoted to the new style, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.