Gesture Animation #7 (after Bruegel)

Cynthia Carlson

1976

A painted and drawn study in acrylic and pencil on paper where Cynthia Carlson isolates and repeats a small curling, ribbon-like gesture—some glossy and red, some sketched—to explore how tiny variations suggest movement and recall Bruegel’s figured rhythms.

What strikes you is the airy scatter of small spiral marks across the pale sheet—glossy red strokes set against faint graphite outlines and soft shaded halos so the shapes seem to float and step in time.

By making a single curl the subject of repeated, incremental variation, Carlson bridges drawing and animation and stages a postmodern dialogue with art history, showing how repetition and subtle change can make a static image feel temporal and process-driven.

Palette

Art Terms

Acrylic paint Drawing Abstraction Gestural Postmodernism Contemporary art

Exhibitions

A Century of Modern Drawing, 1881–1981

1982

Modern Drawings

1944

European Drawings from the Collection

1972

Arp on Paper

1977