The thick, brilliantly textured brushstrokes of Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" have been reduced to a poor imitation.
It is easy to paint the past in simple brushstrokes of evil black and brilliant white.
He took colour to a new level, using it to create form and line with exaggerated, bold brushstrokes.
Instead, he spoke in broad brushstrokes about the things that are important to China in the coming years.
Look at the two Tivoli landscapes: Claude's (1664-65) is dark, but with very precise brushstrokes and a high finish.
Meanwhile, "Silver Ball" (1930) by Arthur Dove presents circular and jagged shapes of dour color outlined with black Fauvist-style brushstrokes.
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Fiordland's forests are predominantly made up of beech trees, whose tiny, regular leaves dot the canopy with small, delicate brushstrokes.
With opulent colour and form, his brushstrokes entice you into believing his paintings are so real that you cannot look away.
He works for the Internal Revenue Service, never takes vacations, and always cleans his teeth with the same number of brushstrokes.
And the brushstrokes themselves can allude to revered masters from past dynasties.
Periodically the figure lost even the basic appearance of a woman, only to gain greater semblance to his model several brushstrokes later.
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Rhythmic starbursts of green, white and yellow brushstrokes race across the horizontal canvas, punctuated by the silver-gray verticals of evenly spaced tree trunks.
Like many of the artists in his circle, Brooks abandoned his earlier, representational style for abstract content and broad brushstrokes that would come to define the postwar era.
Daniel Garber employs broken Impressionist brushstrokes in "The Bridge at New Hope" (1952), its steel-truss span evoking the serene industrial views of Charles Sheeler and the American Precisionists.
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Her slender fingers drew miniatures around the curves, painstaking brushstrokes.
Phillip Conisbee, Senior Curator at Washington's National Gallery, said Cezanne's early still lifes were stolid and dull until Pisarro taught him to loosen his brushstrokes in the Impressionist style.
He had to hold what he saw and felt, here and now, within a grid of potential brushstrokes or possible lines, without employing memory or imagination, for both were cheating.
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Although his paintings captured everything from U.S. presidents to jazz musicians to the powerful animals of Africa, Neiman became best known for his bright, bold sketches of the sports world, capturing its motion and emotion in his brushstrokes.
The former he associated with professional and court paintings, the latter with literati or amateur scholar-artists who looked to the idiomatic brushstrokes of past masters and prized painting as an expression of one's inner self and life force.
Even when confining their predictions to the next few decades, the Killer Bs painted the future with broad brushstrokes that were heavy on the cultural impact of technology and light on how to turn a profit on the stuff.
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