Example sentences for: gestural

How can you use “gestural” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • (And the most interesting and dramatic technical transition, from gestural de Kooningisms to Pop cool, is missing from the show.)

  • Such paintings, which Monet never intended for exhibition, prefigure to a remarkable degree the work of the most gestural Abstract Expressionists, such as De Kooning.

  • If the magazine followed electoral politics a little doggedly, it participated in gestural politics a little overenthusiastically.

  • But the following decade, even this gave way to works of pure nonrepresentational electricity, so bursting and swooping they make you want to use words like "painterly" and "gestural"--oxymoronically, they seem to be a kind of Abstract Expressionism built from little, carefully scissored bits of magazine photographs.

  • As well as being purely verbal, the pun can be visual, kinetic, gestural.


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