Sentences with phrase «colour field technique»

Executed in 1961, Helen Frankenthaler's Untitled coincided with the development of her unique Colour Field technique, solidifying her position as a leading figure of post-war New York painting.

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She uses a variety of lab and field techniques, including behavioural experiments, spectrophotometry, theoretical visual modelling, and colour pattern measurements.

Alluding to Buddhist masks and the journey to nirvana, the recent Spring Poppy Fields (2014) series employs an almost pointillist technique that allows the artist to transmute the canvas into a field of psychedelic colours and motifs.

Frankenthaler's innovative «soak - stain'technique was influential in the development of the later Colour Field painters such as Morris Louis.

This technique was central to Bacon's ability to create flat colour fields rather than a more painterly, brushstroke - laden canvas.

While he is an artist known for his painterly technique and his use of colour, with his new series of charcoals he reveals his skills as a draughtsman and introduces a new field for expression.

In fact, Straine suggests, it was other artists who first applauded the work: artists like Helen Frankenthaler, known collectively as the colour field painters, picked up Pollock's techniques in the following years.

This technique, known as the stain technique, strongly contrasted with the use of impasto that characterized most Abstract Expressionist painting, and it seriously influenced the colour - field painters Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland.

As he began to move towards abstraction, his works began to evoke the visual effects of the Colour Field artists, in particular the staining techniques of Morris Louis and Helen Frankenthaler.

That spirit is kept alive also via the incorporation of other techniques: airy, expressive fields of stained painting evoking his light - filled colour fields, stencilled patterns and outlined shapes recalling the seminal Map Paintings, an underlying geometric rigour and structural complexity which has encompassed his career in the interplay between rectangular and circular forms.

Another important figure in the development of Colour Field painting was Helen Frankenthaler (b. 1928), who began as a Cubist before exploring Abstract Expressionist styles in the early 1950s, making a significant development of Pollock's «drip» technique.