Brushwork

Using illustrations from the Rusinko Kakos Collection, Thompson will explore the ways in which British painters embraced Impressionism’s interest in color, fleeting sensations, visible brushwork and modern subject matter.

Spend a little more time with these pieces, however, and the viewer might get the distinct sense that there is, in fact, some sort of haunting within the sinuous shadowing and diligent brushwork.

The tactile modeling-marks Matisse left on the figures with his fingers and tools are like brushwork.

Basing his imagery on personal, popular and historical subject matter, James Esber makes paintings and drawings that distort his content through a mix of digital manipulations and fancy brushwork.

In a sense, her paintings are acts of liberation achieved with large-scale, aggressive, action-filled brushwork and a severe black-and-white palette.

Discussions leap from topic to topic, beginning with Jungian analytical psychology and ending with an examination of Salvador Dali’s brushwork.

By 1871 he had met and befriended most of the major Pre-Raphaelite painters and it was in part due to their influence that the artist brightened his palette, varied his hues, and lightened his brushwork.

Gibson, 92 Bosch sometimes painted in a comparatively sketchy manner, contrasting with the traditional Flemish style of painting in which the smooth surface—achieved by the application of multiple transparent glazes—conceals the brushwork.

He also began painting with a more unified brushwork along with pure strokes of color.

He is notable for his loose painterly brushwork, and he helped introduce this lively style of painting into Dutch art.

In the second, from 1532 to his death, he drew on smaller sheets of pink-primed paper, adding pen and brushwork in ink to the chalk.

The history of Korean painting has been characterized by the use monochromatic works of black brushwork, often on mulberry paper or silk.

The use of visible and expressive brushwork by all the artists was considered an insult to the craft of traditional artists, who often spent weeks on their work.