Sentences with phrase «vigorous brushwork»
"Vigorous brushwork" refers to the energetic and forceful way an artist applies paint to a canvas using a brush. It involves bold and lively brushstrokes that create texture and add movement and vibrancy to the artwork. Full definition
Some artists reinvigorated Abstract Expressionism by describing landscapes or figures with vigorous brushwork or poured paint.
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In 1987, Bannard began his «brush and cut» paintings, consisting of large - scale canvases in which he applied transparent tinted gel with large street brooms and industrial floor squeegees to make painted «drawings,» featuring vigorous brushwork and three - dimensional illusions.
It wasn't until 20 - 30 years later that Neo-Expressionist painters like Anselm Kiefer (below) would pick up the challenge to fuse figures and landscapes with abstraction and vigorous brushwork into a swirling whole.
In addition to joining parts with epoxy glue rather than kiln firing, he slashed and scraped his surfaces, decorating them with epoxy paints and ceramic glazes in vigorous brushwork à la Kline.
One of the youngest of the second - generation abstract expressionists, he invites comparison with such figures as Alfred Leslie and Grace Hartigan, whose vigorous brushwork brought them attention in the 1950s but whose changing styles have made their oeuvres tricky to summarize.
This highly painterly rendition of a naked woman is comprised of rich layers of de Kooning's signature vigorous brushwork, evident in the individual swathes of thick pigment that sweep across the surface of the work.
Compositions typically paid little attention to «depth» or volume, and were executed with vigorous brushwork.
In his case, this meant using vigorous brushwork and saturated colours, together with both geometric and irregular forms.
All these subjects she rendered with a modernist's flair for heightened color, vigorous brushwork, and simplified, often flattened spaces.
Somehow rooted in nature yet seemingly devoid of any figurative form, Untitled XXV articulates a landscape brought alive with a sense of the human through the length, scale, form and emotive power of de Kooning's vigorous brushwork.
One of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, and a pivotal figure linking American Impressionism and Abstract Expressionism, Milton Avery is celebrated for his luminous paintings of landscapes, figures and still lifes, which balance distillation of form with free, vigorous brushwork and lyrical colour.
One of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, Milton Avery (1885 - 1965) is celebrated for his luminous paintings of landscapes, figures and still lifes, which balance distillation of form with free, vigorous brushwork and lyrical colour.
One of the foremost artists of the twentieth century, Milton Avery (1885 — 1965) is celebrated for his luminous paintings of landscapes, figures and still lifes, which balance distillation of form with free, vigorous brushwork and lyrical colour.
In the best pieces, Tobias creates the sense of a whirlwind pinned to the canvas with thickly applied paint and vigorous brushwork.
Corneille (Corneille Beverloo)(b. 1922) Famous for child - like COBRA imagery, brilliant colour, vigorous brushwork.
The vigorous brushwork used by Nancy Lorenz, who lived in Tokyo as a teenager, references Japanese aesthetics and abstract expressionism.
By 1939 he was able to break away from the Expressionistic landscapes and still lifes he had painted in the early 1930s, and he developed a totally abstract manner notable for its wealth of invention, vigorous brushwork, and saturated colours.
In these paintings (like the paintings of children by his older contemporaries, Robert Henri and George Bellows, he painted with a vigorous brushwork and palette that sometimes took into consideration more modern color and other expressive choices.
Bellows's early works show the influence of Henri in their dark, tonal palette, vigorous brushwork, and urban subject matter; typical of this period is Forty - Two Kids (1907), a painting of slum children swimming and diving in the East River.
He increasingly pushed towards abstraction, rendering forms less decipherable with vigorous brushwork.
(1) Experimenting with this technique, Motherwell developed a loose yet vigorous brushwork that resonated with emotion.
A complex treatment removed this coating to reveal a cool palette, vigorous brushwork, and the fine details of Manet's sketchy composition.