Compositions on white paper seem gently washed with faint shadows, while those on black paper are inhabited by cloudlike presences made of traceries of white filigree lines. (lehmannmaupin.com)
With its thin, delicate tracery of black threading throughout the strokes of whites and filaments of shifting color forms, Number 15 is a fitting culmination of Tomlin's career.By inclination a superb colorist, Tomlin reduced his palette from 1945 to 1947, and focused first on the painterly mark, adapting a calligraphic technique within a vaguely Cubist structure of horizontals and verticals. (thecityreview.com)
Others were looking for a bridge, too — starting with Pollock himself, in his late black traceries on mostly empty canvas. (haberarts.com)