Sentences with phrase «visible brushstrokes»
"Visible brushstrokes" refers to the individual marks or lines made by a paintbrush that can be seen in a painting. Full definition
The Golden Age artist was particularly admired for his painterly style, his use of visible brushstrokes in turn inspiring the work of the Abstract Expressionists.
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Unforunately, there are still lots of visible brushstrokes, which I don't mind, but I know a lot of people aren't into that.
Grooves in the wood mark its three divisions, with the artist's visible brushstrokes defining the painted surface in black, yellow, and crimson.
The Crow exhibition catalog states that the pieces «have a dreamlike quality reminiscent of surrealist explorations of the unconscious that melds, unexpectedly, with visible brushstrokes and the traces of swift, decisive action.»
Small oil paintings such as this one are sketched from life and often intended to be scaled up into larger works, but their economic execution and visible brushstrokes reveal an intimate side to his practice.
Echoing Malevich's notion of faktura — that paintings must present themselves as having been made by the topographic materiality of their surfaces — Rojas leaves visible brushstrokes and traces of her hand in her work.
The figures appear to float on the picture plane amid visible brushstrokes in muted or earthy tones.
28 Dec» 62, for instance, bears visible brushstrokes, oscillating hues, and jagged lines from hurriedly deracinated tape.
Built up into a thick impasto of rich colors, Pollock's brushwork is typical of Abstract Expressionist gestural painting, in which visible brushstrokes are seen as physical traces of the creative act.
Popularized by Swiss art historian Heinrich Wolfflin, painterliness describes paintings that are loosely and openly styled, with emphasis placed on visible brushstrokes and the application of paint rather than on the sharp delineation of forms and objects.
This ceramic apothecary jar features visible brushstrokes, having been hand - painted in copper leaf to emphasize its artisanal nature.
Where Richter blurs paint to a near - photographic smoothness, however, Taylor revels in his medium's materiality, working in lively impasto and unafraid of drips, splashes or visible brushstrokes.
Taking this sense of visual surplus, Mrozowski chooses to revel in all that this medium is, using rich colours and visible brushstrokes that truly celebrate the painted form.
As paintings, they are activated by the play of colors and visible brushstrokes... As dynamically composed reliefs... they energize the space around them, seemingly almost to be caught in the act of moving across the wall.»
Chase's rough and visible brushstrokes (in Dora Wheeler, for example) resemble strikes of chalk, while the velvety tones in many of his oil portraits (such as those in the Whistler likeness) evoke gently blended powdery pigment.
Their investigation of line, shape and geometry is offset by the presence of textured, visible brushstrokes, which create a playful, expressive effect.
All of the History Paintings feature smooth but visible brushstrokes, oriented horizontally across the canvas.