For the exhibition at Palazzo Grimani, Barkat has begun work - ing on a large scale,
using painterly gestures that recall action painting.
In the earliest period, from 1980 to late 1982, Basquiat
used painterly gestures on canvas, often depicting skeletal figures and mask - like faces that expressed his obsession with mortality.
Not exact matches
Painstakingly rotoscoped, the animation
uses an unusual colour palette and gorgeously textured backdrops adorned with felt tip figures and
painterly gestures.
The German artist, who famously
uses a spraygun to extend her
painterly gesture to an architectural scale, has included three trees — roots and all — atop an uneven surface of canvas and dirt to blur the distinction between museum and park.
Both
used images of ordinary objects, or the objects themselves, in their work, while retaining the abstraction and
painterly gestures of high Modernism.
Over the years I started appropriating found
gestures and
using those to make images that are about
painterly gestures.
Both
used images of ordinary objects, or the objects themselves, in their work, while retaining the abstraction and
painterly gestures of high modernism.
These artists
used images of ordinary objects, or the objects themselves, in their work, while retaining the abstraction and
painterly gestures of high modernism.
Organized around the notions of text and texture, the varied works reference modern Arabic and Hebrew calligraphy; some evoke the art of hurufiyah,
using the swoops and curves of the Arabic alphabet as
painterly gestures.
She
uses materials with cavalier abandon, and her paint handling is loose and playful and incorporates a variety of techniques such as
painterly monotype backgrounds, fluid shapes, lyrical
gestures, and impasto.
Besides being known as a New York Abstract Expressionist
using the freewheeling
gesture of action paintings and loose,
painterly style, his work is imbued with a sensibility honed by studying Italian antiquities and the Renaissance masters.
Fluids, fictional innards and flesh, and paint are
used to enhance the
painterly gesture that is transformed into a performative action: each canvas on show is the result of an action, capturing and conveying Nitsch's mystical art philosophy through extreme materiality.
We saw a lot of his new artwork, in which he is continuing to
use retroreflective screen printing, but adding in some
painterly gestures.
I
use gesture, improvisation, and
painterly notation to translate Old Master imagery into a contemporary pictorial language.