Italian to English Art/Literary Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting Review on artist\'s work

This artist's work is being described as more representative nowadays, in comparison to her earlier tendency to create more expressionistic paintings.

"...stimolo assoluto soprattutto nei primi tempi, quando l’autrice vuole sottolinearlo attraverso lo scavo dei tratti, scanditi e ripetuti, insistiti, posti in dialogo con cromie decise e una gestualità chiaramente espressionista.

I have put "....This is very exciting, especially as, in her early days, this artist sought to place emphasis through the contours of features, so prominent and reconstructed" ?????

I have put these two adjectives together in the same question because they seem to be connected somehow.
By the way, almost all her work is of faces, dancers bodies and , generally, people's expressions.