Like the fluctuating, expansive space suggested by her elegantly
varied paint handling, surface inflections, and color relationships, this conceptual contradiction keeps us a little off balance, suggesting yet another layer of allusion even as the specificity of that allusion escapes us, like an imperfect memory or a rapidly disappearing dream image.»
Greenwald writes that «the artworks in this exhibition contain wildly different compositional arrangements and display
varied paint handling, showing Cézanne to be a thoughtful artist engaged in a lifetime of learning... Beyond studio experiments, a few magnificent loans add heft to this show.
Not exact matches
But the
paint handling is deft and dazzlingly
varied and the color sense exciting.
His sophisticated
paint handling allows the artist to be as abstract or realistic as he deems appropriate; the subject matter
varies from foreshortened stacks of wood, to cracked and dried dirt - scapes, to WWII airplanes, to still - lives of tumbling bowls and complex fields of gray - scale circles.
The other works in the exhibition, by Hans Hofmann, Milton Avery, Robert Motherwell, and Paul Resika are abstracted to
varying degrees through expressive
paint handling, bold color, simplified shapes, and other techniques.