He's also delicately deft in techniques that range from linocut and silkscreen to rather free, almost color-field, brushwork.
More progressive artists absorb the looser brushwork of the French Barbizon and Impressionist painters, and often Impressionism's lighter palette.
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"That record was pivotal for me, " he said as much for drummer Vernel Fournier's brushwork as for Mr. Jamal's piano playing.
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The swift, stiff brushwork in Manet's "The Parisienne" (1875) makes one think of blue-black feathers, the iridescent wings of a grackle.
Sotheby's says experts noticed brushwork more characteristic of Rubens' pupil Van Dyck.
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To see Caravaggio's brushwork up close, head to the Borghese Gallery.
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Using free, gestural brushwork and a nightmarish palette, Bellows often elongates and distorts the athletes' figures in a way that parallels German expressionism, which was developing across the Atlantic at the same time.
Rembrandt's "Man With Feathered Beret" is a handsome display of his mastery of light and shade, his virtuoso brushwork, his love for exotic costumes and his ability to make all human faces look thoughtful and real.
He also said the brushwork was clearly legible throughout - a trait of Van Dyck's when he was working in Rubens' studio - and that the use of thick paint in the monk's habit was also characteristic.
BBC: Portrait of a Carmelite Monk by Van Dyck, circa 1617 to 1620
This remarkable trio from the Dutch city of Nijmegen was probably in their late teens when the Duc hired them to produce the Book of Hours, probably in 1405, a work that required three or four years of their brushwork.
Michelangelo the painter is ever present in his architectural drawings, both in his choice of materials such as red chalk, typical of painters, and in his ready use of brushwork to lay down the basic composition and the patterns of light and shade.
In fact, Florence during its decades as a haven for American artists became the site of intense cross-pollination of academic styles: for instance, the American Frank Duveneck's brooding brushwork courtesy of Munich, Eakins's Pennsylvania Academy rigor, and the "purist line" of Florence's own Accademi di Belle Arti.
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By contrast, virtually every work in "The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth Century China" warrants its own essay on the composition's literary or political allusions, the lineage of its brushwork, and the personal and historical context in which the painter dipped brush into ink.
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