From Greenberg's perspective, the history of Western art in the 20th century could be seen as an almost positivistic march from Paul Cézanne's experiments with flatness and colour at the beginning of the century through the Abstract Expressionists' gestural canvases toward abstract art.
A chimpanzee named Lana, who was trained to press symbols on a keyboard, could type out "Please machine give Lana drink"; Washoe and other chimpanzees trained in gestural sign language frequently produced strings of gestures such as "You me go out," "Roger tickle Washoe," and so on.
Collaborating with computer programmer Mark Havryliv, the pair made a "gestural electronic drumkit" comprised of a 3D timbral theremin and a pair of controllers.
Another 20 years would pass before William Stokoe's groundbreaking "Sign Language Structure" proved that what many regarded as a crude, gestural way of communicating was, in fact, a complex system with its own grammar and subtle forms of expression.
True language the spoken languages used by most people and the gestural languages used by the deaf does not have to be taught in special classes.
Even more impressive, he demonstrated an understanding of spoken English words under rigorous testing conditions in which gestural clues from his trainers were eliminated.
In Minimalist visual arts, the personal, gestural elements were stripped away in order to reveal the objective, purely visual elements of painting and sculpture.
February 12 , 1926Chicago, Illinois October 30 , 1992Paris, France Joan Mitchell, (born February 12 , 1926 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. died October 30, 1992, Paris, France) American painter known for her large abstract paintings made with colourful gestural brushstrokes.
Whether acrobatic or musical, gestural or vocal, such activity is theatrical because it is presented by a live performer to an audience, but it remains nondramatic so long as it has a purely presentational quality rather than a representational one.
Some of the engraved animals are drawn in a practiced, gestural manner, while others are more static.
Lacking any formal training, Basquiat created highly expressionistic work that mixed graffiti and signs with the gestural and intuitive approach of Abstract Expressionist painting.
