Snyder restlessly combines different print techniques, then varies them with painterly applications of color ranging from melancholy darks to sensuous hues to shocking accents. (museumpublicity.com)
His work evolved through complex orchestrations of colour from a Cubist - derived geometry in the 1960s and 1970s, through painterly applications in the 1980s to complex compositions in the 1990s, the latter stimulated by his DOUKHOBOR heritage. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
Interestingly, the practitioners of the Color Field saw themselves apart from the Abstract Expressionists because they stayed clear of emotional, mythic or the religious content, allowing the personal and gestural painterly application to take precedent. (widewalls.ch)