Sentences with phrase «multiform paintings»

• Biography • Youth • Artistic Training • Introduced to Colour • Abstract Art: Multiform Paintings • Abstract Expressionism: Colour Field Painting (c.1948 - 68) • Development of Rothko's Colour Palette • Recognition From Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) • Chapel Murals at St Thomas Catholic University in Houston • Reputation and Legacy

Rothko subsequently jettisoned the patchy irregularity of the multiform paintings for a simplified, symmetrical format.

Not exact matches

The multiforms are, to be sure, transitional paintings, but we, nonetheless, applaud Rothko for the hurdle he has cleared.

Therefore, when we first come upon the «multiform» paintings of the late 1940s, the change — indeed, the improvement — in Rothko's color is startling.

In a sense, his best known works — the «multiforms» and his other signature paintings — are, in essence, the same expression, albeit one of purer (or less concrete or definable, depending on your interpretation) means, which is that of the same «basic human emotions,» as his earlier surrealistic mythological paintings.

It wasn't until the mid-1980s that Mueller emerged with a distinctive style in which thinned - out acrylic paint is used to create soft, glowing, loosely geometric stained grounds (reminiscent of Rothko's «multiform» paintings) that Mueller then defaces with pigment - thick gestural forms that have a Baroque grotesquerie about them.

Since 1946 begins his transitional period of «multiform» paintings.

It traces the artist's career from his «realist» scenes of 1930s New York through his Surrealist phase and — with a side bar of the «multiform» paintings — culminates in his floating blocks of color.

Dark, with objects lit in a powerfully theatrical way, the room balances modestly scaled icons and Robert Rauschenberg's equally portable 1956 Untitled (Gold Painting) against Yves Klein's large, almost unbearably tactile gold - leaf - on - wood Untitled (Monogold)(ca. 1960), James Lee Byars's The Halo (1985) and a ravishing Rothko multiform.

Two paintings and three hand - lettered drawings by Martin Wong A slide show by Matt Wolf Three photographs by David Wojnarowicz Three photogravures by Danh Vo An interview with Marvin Taylor An apparition concerning Liberace A sculpture by Robert Kinmont A stereoscopic photograph by Alfred A. Hart Two paintings and a multiform work by James Benning A photograph and a publication (and errata) by Martin Beck A composite essay by Julie Ault Artifacts and documents from The Downtown Collection An anonymous ledger drawing A crate of personal effects

The late 1940s marked the beginning of his color field paintings or «multiforms», works for which he is known.

A multiform corpus that includes paintings, drawings, collages, sculptures, videos and artist's books, her art mixes literature, mythology, and autobiography in a colorful style whose influences range from popular art to Byzantine mosaic to erotic miniatures.

By the 1950s this multiform style had evolved into his signature style of abstract expressionist painting, known as «Colour Field Paintingpainting, known as «Colour Field PaintingPainting».

In a series of paintings created between 1947 and 1949, called «multiforms,» Rothko covered