For more than sixty years, Virginia - born artist Judith Godwin has explored abstract painting, recording motion and gesture
with brushstrokes on canvas.
She and the gallery parted ways — neither felt is was the right match — and those double - sided paintings have now been embraced by curators for the way they form a meticulous duet of surfaces,
with brushstroke on one side bleeding through to factor into the composition on the other.
Not exact matches
A mirabelle plum and orange blossom water dark truffle,
with brushstrokes of turquoise - tinted white chocolate
on top that mirror tufts of hair recognizable from his self - portraits.
On Saturday, July 19, the Chestnut Hill Splendid store will host a summery
Brushstroke Tank Top DIY —
with the purchase of a Splendid 1 x 1 tank, you'll be able to access your inner creative by painting and dyeing your tank.
The director even goes so far as to incorporate imagery cues from the superhero genre (the Superman parallels are hard to miss) and
on the whole, the movie has hints of a director who can do some fun things
with a big canvas - even if he stills needs some practice
with the
brushstrokes.
In this case, director Bill Condon (who is literally one hump away from having a terribly awkward surname) mismatches the talented Cumberbatch and Brühl
with a lifeless script that gives only broad
brushstrokes as to who the man behind WikiLeaks is; you could get the same information by checking him out
on Wikipedia.
It is based
on a witty epistolary novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, but is here adapted
with some painfully broad
brushstrokes into a Frankenstein's monster of populist standards — part Ealing comedy (especially Whisky Galore!)
With regrets to Pierre Thoretton's understated but chilly L'amour fou, which comes at its subject through the reminiscences of his lifelong professional and personal partner Pierre Berge, Bonello's project is almost certainly the most fetching (thanks in no small part to costume designer Anais Romand), marrying a contemporary fixation on the limits of biographical storytelling with the sort of impressionist brushstrokes the Matisse devotee might have apprecia
With regrets to Pierre Thoretton's understated but chilly L'amour fou, which comes at its subject through the reminiscences of his lifelong professional and personal partner Pierre Berge, Bonello's project is almost certainly the most fetching (thanks in no small part to costume designer Anais Romand), marrying a contemporary fixation
on the limits of biographical storytelling
with the sort of impressionist brushstrokes the Matisse devotee might have apprecia
with the sort of impressionist
brushstrokes the Matisse devotee might have appreciated.
As
with the original, players will draw
brushstrokes on screen
with the Celestial Brush to battle opponents or solve puzzles.
Morales» playful figures, rendered in thick
brushstrokes and appealingly rounded shapes, fizz
with movement against textured scenes
with pops of neon, while fantastic background details enliven the atmosphere — check out Thunder Boy's mom
on a cool motorbike, and his pudgy sister exuberantly playing along.
Touchscreen Painting — Create
brushstrokes directly
on the touchscreen in Handheld mode Motion - Control Painting — Paint
with the Joy - Con ™ controller's motion controls in TV or Tabletop mode by moving it in the desired pattern, just like a paintbrush
In the game, players draw
brushstrokes on screen
with the Celestial Brush to battle opponents or solve puzzles.
With ample amounts of blue and white and feathered
brushstrokes that create dazzling light as well as reflections
on the rippling water, four river views by Caillebotte from the 1880s and «90s make you want to board one of his sailboats and feel the sun
on your face and the wind in your hair.
Katz's Black Brook 11, an oil
on linen painting from 1990, is a rendering of a dark monochromatic space
with white
brushstrokes on the bottom half to depict a running stream.
It's a head -
on portrait of a woman
with her skin precisely rendered via lots of little red
brushstrokes against a vivid green background, recalling the backgrounds of the German Renaissance master Hans Holbein the Younger.
I admire Geoff's ability at being able to suggest a huge mass of detail in foliage
with a few carefully placed
brushstrokes, and even though there are 11 colours in the palette for this particular exercise — This was yet another painting where I just couldn't wait to get started
on this one and learn more of Geoff's watercolor techniques!
Without even working
on all that large a scale, he filled both rooms of his West 24th Street gallery
with large, facile
brushstrokes of thinly applied, bright color and no apparent shape.
His crosshatches resemble painted
brushstrokes yet arise from a far more physical process of mark making
with crayon
on panel.
Spanning painting, sculpture and works
on paper, Foster's practice borrows from the traditions of British Romantic painting while touching
on the absurd
with one fanciful
brushstroke and then flitting forward to an uncertain, sinister future.
«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.»
Almost every one of David Bellamy Paintings appears to positively glow
with Turneresque warmth, and he paints
with a brevity that defies belief, being able to suggest a huge mass of detail
with only a few carefully placed
brushstrokes, and this book really is one of the best lessons you can buy
on how to paint using these techniques in watercolour.
Lu Zheng - yuan deliberately painted the paintings
with a live plant to dip in asphalt, leaving abstract
brushstrokes created
with the forms of the plant branches
on the canvases.
To create her large - scale pieces, she lays unstretched canvas
on the floor of her Brooklyn studio (à la Pollock) and then attacks it
with sweeping
brushstrokes, taped - off geometrical passages, and Rorschach - like splotches (made by allowing paint to pool and then folding over the canvas
with a tight crease).
Similarly, one of Philip Guston's mid-1960s brush - heavy paintings (or even one of the 1970s figurative paintings,
with their flurries of dirty, wet - into - wet
brushstrokes) would have been preferable to the Cy Twombly
on view, especially since Reed encountered Guston at the Studio School.
Working in predominantly oil
on canvas, the majority of Chavez's oeuvre encompasses highly detailed renderings of neighborhood facades executed
with softly textured
brushstrokes and compositional clarity.
Nares simulates in oil a gigantic loose
brushstroke, as if he hopes to recover the loving calligraphy that Robert Rauschenberg had erased, Cy Twombly or Sol LeWitt had exorcised, Gerhard Richter had covered up
with a squeegee, and Roy Lichtenstein had once parodied
on the same scale.
From close up the work seems abstract, as if the artist is concentrating
on experiments
with different colors and
brushstrokes.
By the late»60s, his focus
on the character and shape of
brushstrokes evolved into a unique style that blended minimalist abstraction
with his interest in gesture, color, movement, and tactility.
Avery insisted
on a rigorous study of his subject, and most of these mature works were the result of sketches or drawings made
with color notations, later enlarged and simplified into watercolor or oil crayon and finally translated to oil applied in luminous, thin washes of closely valued colors overlaid
with swiftly applied expressionist
brushstrokes.
The young Miami native's wild and vibrant symphonies
on the canvas (think furious Cezanne - like
brushstrokes, splashes of windex blue, and spring green that's so bright it looks acidic) depict the devil as inhabiting a luscious yet spooky space (gnarled trees, rickety houses
with potion - like smoke billowing in the windows) where men go to contemplate alone and flirt
with destiny.
For nearly sixty years the Austrian artist Maria Lassnig has explored the concept of «body awareness» in paint, concentrating
on minute corporeal stirrings and rendering the sensations
with quick and long
brushstrokes on canvas.
The exhibition will chart the forty - year career of this child of the Ashcan and step - daddy of Pop, this all - American Modernist
with his finger
on the pulse and a beat to his
brushstroke.
The show includes new works from two series of paintings
with a mutual focus
on the
brushstroke, although
with significant different approaches.
I also appreciated the large Williams canvas displayed
on the outside of the booth
with its expressive use of color and
brushstrokes.
This experience may have had a bearing
on his celebrated pictures of women as magisterial, predatory, even ferocious totems, painted
with violently expressive
brushstrokes.
For all his high culture, he puts
on a show akin to Roy Lichtenstein
with his mammoth
Brushstrokes.
Kudo's detailed bold
brushstroke creates the superb orchestra of colors and forms, and her motifs released from memories and personal experiences give an impression that weighs
on the hearts of the viewers, precisely as if we ourselves are experiencing a great undulation of sensitivity
with our half - forgotten childhood memories.
Her initial representational painting would be done from life, out in the open air, then she would take the canvas home to her studio and work over it so that it took
on an emotional resonance — something she described as: «that memory or dream thing I do that for me comes nearer reality than my objective kind of work».6 She painted
on canvas
with a very fine weave and coated it
with a special primer to make the surface extremely smooth, blending one colour into the next, making sure that the
brushstrokes were invisible.
With her original approach to making «video based
on painting» Yuriko Sasaoka explores the interface between painting and video, by creating works that suggest «touches» similar to
brushstrokes.
Jazz music had a profound impact
on his work, and he often sought to transfer the genre's improvisational fluidity and energy onto the canvas
with broad
brushstrokes and abstracted imagery.
A much - revered figure in the art world, Robert Ryman has, over six decades, continuously and methodically experimented
with the different possibilities inherent within a painting — abolishing color in order to focus
on material,
brushstroke, support, and scale.
This unusual textural quality is created
with short, wide
brushstrokes on tissue paper so that the colors undulate and flow.
Maintaining the consistency of the
brushstrokes while varying the amount of paint and pressure applied, Lee keeps «expression to a minimum in order to achieve the maximum» (L. Ufan, Lee Ufan, Tokyo, 1993, p. 3) The almost hypnotic repetition of marks that comprise From Line is created by the artist pressing a brush loaded
with blue paint suspended in viscous glue directly onto the surface of the canvas, then repeating the process until there is barely any pigment left
on the filaments of the brush.
He made his first non-figurative works in 1947
with black signs in heavy
brushstrokes on a light background.
A series of white canvases are covered
with what seems to be manipulated
brushstrokes of color, foil wall pieces adorned
with magnified horse hair prints, as well as an intriguing video projection complete a cohesive, yet truly pluralistic, critical commentary
on the histories, conventions and vocabularies of the medium.
It told me how to paint more,
with these
brushstrokes just constructing figures
on pieces of panels.
Or the picture executed about eleven months later, in September 1889, in more pronounced
brushstrokes,
with a self - portrait and a portrait of an unknown woman hanging
on the wall by the double bed, that is now owned by the Art Institute of Chicago?
In «Obscura,» Smit fuses gestural
brushstrokes, splashed and splattered paint, and captivating pigments of color
with a realistic representation of the heads and faces of his subjects
on a large scale.
The striations can infuse the
brushstrokes with volume, make them seem as if they are reflecting light, like a storm cloud passing overhead while the sun is setting
on the horizon.
The interlocked hermetic imagery of Commander Salamander (2017) includes a collaged reproduction of the titular character (an important alchemical figure) combined
with a piece of fabric printed
with wavy mushrooms (more psychedelic than edible), an inverted color reproduction of two robed medieval Christian elders in a boat, and a separately painted and affixed upside - down vibrant red cardinal (perhaps punning
on the Pope's henchmen)-- all of them scattered across a canvas painted
with some of the loopiest
brushstrokes in the show.