While still using the now trademark striated lines, the artist has switched to a more free-handling dispensation of lines, sending them in various directions, really bold and
gestural but not manic as to disturb the mood of nature, as it were, or leave the design composition unresolved.
Which is not to say the weight of history dooms
gestural abstraction to cliche; to the contrary, its legacy can be wielded as a feature, not a bug.
Carating's creative coin also includes
gestural artworks.
But while Rae's thick,
gestural paint was theatrically pitted against geometry, Woo is engaged with an idea of "picture making"--a phrase he often uses in discussion.
Jacques Vauclair, from the Aix-Marseille University, France, also point out that "this finding provides additional support to the idea that speech evolved initially from a
gestural communicative system in our ancestors."
While singing a song or reciting a text, they repeat this
gestural phrase.
They also said: "this finding provides additional support to the idea that speech evolved initially from a
gestural communicative system in our ancestors.
Wallace Whitney is alive to the curious allure of
gestural abstraction, to the drama and theatricality made possible by painting with a wide and overloaded brush in thick three-or four-foot strokes that can seem impetuous, risky, sudden, bold, unconsciously derived, and--when they work--pictorially inevitable.
The facture of the piece--the phrases that seem bound by spun steel--impresses as much as the variety of ensembles and the
gestural signposts hung on the structure.
Drawing is both a vehicle for understanding and a
gestural act itself (in this case for Austin City Hall).
Despite their tramping stride, these dances also depended on
gestural details (arms up, palms out, for instance, in a sort of salute in Dreamtime; the fist-to-mouth distress signals in Shattered).
With Portrait Robert Johnson she took terms like aura or obsession--terms that were closely associated with
gestural painting and that had been discredited by postmodern theory--and presented them as if they could not be simply tossed aside.
More successful is the two-faced vertical "portrait" painting Janus, 2005, in which a stylized desert plant rendered in creamy yellow, pink, and acid green also reveals itself as a brushy
gestural head contained by a thick, cartoonish black outline; the ambiguous gender of the featureless head mirrors the playful disruption of genre expectations engendered by conflating portrait and landscape.
Though Nouvel tends to be associated with a more
gestural sort of architecture, here his intelligently understated approach has a dignity and clarity that lets antiquity speak for itself.
It does occasionally happen, though, that Richter's abstractions are shown in wholesale quantities, at which point they shrug off the usual vocabulary used to discuss
gestural Expressionism.
