In this presentation of abstract works, you'll see how artists, including Robert Motherwell, Betty Parsons, and Joan Mitchell
used loose brushwork and emphasized surface rather than depth on the canvas.
Dozier began to develop a semiabstract style,
using looser brushwork and more brilliant colors than he had during the Regionalist era.
Impressionism emerged in France in the 1860s as a style characterized by painting in the outdoors
using loose brushwork and bright colors.
Not exact matches
Though her
brushwork became
looser and heavier with time, Fine was always recognized for her ability to create visual rhythms
using geometric forms, colors, and lines.
Through her
loose brushwork — which she
uses to call attention to the sensuous nature of oil paint itself — forms become imprecise but alluring.
Rather than trying to get precise detail, as I did when I
used to paint with a tiny little brush at times, the monotypes were wonderful in terms of not only
loose brushwork but in terms of wiping and smudging, etc., and I think it helped the painting a great deal.»
He is known for his innovative recasting of ideas
used by Impressionists (especially Edouard Manet, Claude Monet and Georges Seurat), such as the differing effects of light, and scenes of bourgeois leisure - seekers, executed
using wet - in - wet oil techniques and
loose brushwork.
Note however, that while Roberts and his group
used a
loose style of
brushwork, which gave their paintings an «impressionistic» appearance, they were too drawn to naturalism and the style favoured by the Barbizon School of landscape painting to embrace full - blown French Impressionism.