Sentences with phrase «wide brushstrokes»

Horizontal bands and vertical drags of wide brushstrokes are interrupted by more angular accents, resulting in a mesmerizing ground in which painterly components simultaneously quarrel and complement each other.

In the early 1960s, influenced by films, television, and billboard advertising, Katz began painting large - scale paintings, often with dramatically cropped faces.Utilizing characteristically wide brushstrokes, large swathes of color, and refined compositions, Katz created what art historian Robert Storr called «a new and distinctive type

Yet unlike Théodore Géricault's somber color palette, Brown dramatically employs wide brushstrokes of burnt orange, sapphire blue, sea green, and fleshy hues of pink and brown.

Her use of wet paint creates internal depth in these flat objects, with prominent outlines and deliberate, wide brushstrokes providing a sense of volume.

This unusual textural quality is created with short, wide brushstrokes on tissue paper so that the colors undulate and flow.

Smith uses mainly murky colors and wide brushstrokes because he's not interested in precision, but rather in exploring a different type of abstraction For Smith, his work is an important part of his identity and his communicational style.

Utilizing characteristically wide brushstrokes, large swathes of color, and refined compositions, Katz created what art historian Robert Storr has called «a new and distinctive type of realism in American art which combines aspects of both abstraction and representation.»

A stalwart defender of abstraction like McKenzie can approach routine, but several artists there go big, including Plexiglas triangles high on the wall by Doreen McCarthy and wide brushstrokes by Andrea Belag.

Inspired by such events as the flight of Apollo 12, she creates a forceful mosaic effect with her placement of wide brushstrokes in highly saturated colors.

Support, understood in its widest brushstroke as the «second position,» is tested, fatigued, and reified; we try to broaden forms of abstract support that sustain the practice of the artist and the body of the artist, as well as wider culture economies.

Not exact matches

Curtis Hanson was an artist whose canvass was wide and whose brushstrokes were thrillingly specific.

As in the earlier title, simple brushstrokes convey a wide range of emotions.

By her original techniques of skillfully employing a wide range of mark - making — pencil lines, brushstrokes using watercolor or Chinese ink, and the lines of the paper fibers — her work embraces a sense of romanticism, airiness and clarity.

«As in a movie poster, using quick, hectic brushstrokes, Jacqueline de Jong sought to create a dramatic sketch of a situation, to capture the literally sensational of the criminal moment, with image and typography in shreds, concentrated into the classic mythical constellation of man and woman or trench coat and hat, coloured with the signs of fear — wide open eyes, the hand clutching the forbidden, blood on the knife blade, flame spewing from the barrel of the revolver, a last kiss between monster and victim.»

Whether the canvases are tall and narrow, leaving room only for brushstrokes less than a foot long, or wide enough to permit strokes of more than four feet in length, the number of stacked strokes averages around thirteen or fourteen.

The large scale of the Nymphéas (two meters wide and one meter high), its expressive and very present brushstrokes and very abstract rendering of all its natural elements would have a lasting influence on the future generations of artists.

A widely adored painter who was a star of the last Whitney Biennial, Laura Owens is known for building her compositions using a wide variety of painterly techniques, from digitally printed Photoshop brushstrokes to old - fashioned impasto given a steroidal boost.

In certain works, wide, dragged brushstrokes create thick horizontal bands across prepared grounds.

Using his wide and playful brushstrokes together with the great sense of humor, Smith creates his very own, unique communication with his audience.

Applying pigments to his canvases using a palette knife, he began to saturate his paintings with expressive swathes of luminous color achieved through wide, rhythmical brushstrokes, which he then contrasted with raw, but graceful, lines that pulsated with emotion — a practice that he would continue to pursue for the remainder of his career.

Agrigento (1961), in the monumental simplicity of the monochromatic hue and the wide sweeping brushstroke, suggests that in spite of Hofmann's complex artistic theories he was able to express a visual experience directly with a minimal amount of intellectualizing.

The stripes are sometimes narrow and sometimes wide, are sometimes applied flatly and at other times with a clearly perceptible brushstroke — his abstract compositions become concentrated into optical border hoppers or expand our gaze to encompass almost landscape - like associations.

Lesley Vance's Untitled, 2015, investigates spatial ambiguity through wide, suspended brushstrokes in contrasting shades of violet and yellow.

Working over a variety of formats and mediums, Fishman, in a new series of works currently on view at Cheim & Read, defies the inherent flatness in painting with wide, energetic brushstrokes and overlapping angular forms.