To help me understand and define what gesture is in terms of my style and practice of art making I have researched various definitions to create a collective rudimental term to underpin the style frequently referred to in my art vocabulary.
Gesture is quick, loose drawing that captures the energy and movement within a frame of work. It is that the concept of gesture is twofold: it describes the visual characteristics of the action of a figure; and it embodies the intangible "essence" of a figure or object. It is is the act of the artist loose arm movements, using the large muscles of the arm rather than the small muscles of the hand and wrist that is an action to purvey gesture.
Many artist use there bodies to preform repetitive gestures that highlighted ordinary, seemingly pointless actions typically engaged in without notice or consequence.
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