gestural
Conveyed through movement
Gestural describes something relating to or consisting of gestures—movements of the hands, arms, or body that communicate meaning.
A gestural language uses physical movements rather than spoken words.
In art criticism, gestural refers to visible brushwork that emphasizes the artist's physical motion: gestural painting, gestural abstraction.
A gestural interface responds to hand or body movements rather than buttons or keys.
Drama through gesture alone
- mimeWordless expressive performer
- charadesWordless guessing game
- clowningPlayful comic behavior
- mimingWordless gestural performance
portray · enact · convey · tableau · improvisation · commedia · slapstick · exaggerated
Not using speech
- kinesicsStudy of gesture meaning
- pointingDirecting attention somewhere
- wavingSweeping hand gesture
- beckoningGesturing for approach
shrugging · nodding · posture · emblems · illustrators · adaptors · haptics · cues
Designing performance movement sequences
- mudraRitual hand gesture
- flamencoRhythmic Spanish dance style
- hulaGestural Polynesian dance
- kathakNorth Indian classical dance
adagio · flowing · sweeping · arabesque · interpretive · lyrical · contemporary · isolations
Painter's stroke method
- calligraphyOrnamental handwriting art
- sumi-eJapanese monochrome brush painting
- strokeSudden brain blood blockage
- flourishTo grow vigorously
sweep · spontaneous · freehand · loose · painterly · kinetic · dynamic · rhythmic
pantomime
Drama through gesture alone
miming · portray · enact · convey · tableau · improvisation · commedia · slapstick · exaggerated · theatrical
nonverbal
Not using speech
beckoning · shrugging · nodding · posture · emblems · illustrators · adaptors · haptics · cues · synchrony
choreography
Designing performance movement sequences
kathak · adagio · flowing · sweeping · arabesque · interpretive · lyrical · contemporary · isolations · undulation
brushwork
Painter's stroke method
- calligraphyOrnamental handwriting art
- sumi-eJapanese monochrome brush painting
- strokeSudden brain blood blockage
flourish · sweep · spontaneous · freehand · loose · painterly · kinetic · dynamic · rhythmic · fluid
touchscreen
Input-sensitive display panel
- sculpturestatue, sculpture, sculptor, sculpting, bronze
- art termspainting, sculpture, drawing, portrait, landscape
- brushworkbrushwork, strokes, bold strokes, impasto, dry brush
- abstract artabstract art, abstract expressionism, abstraction, expressionism, abstract composition
- ExpressionismEdvard Munch, The Scream, Der Blaue Reiter, German Expressionism, woodcuts
- improvisationimprovised, impromptu, ad lib, freestyle, ad-lib
gesturaluncommunicative
Unwilling to share thoughts
incommunicative · expressionless · impassive · still · motionless
- hand gestureMotion made with fingers
- romantic gestureAct expressing affection
- thumbs up gesture
- empty gestureInsincere symbolic act
- grand gestures
- token gestureInsincere symbolic action