Sentences with phrase «abstract planes of color»

We encounter lovers lifted from an Indian temple sculpture; monkeys and lion dogs borrowed from Chinese art; a grape - eating goat surrounded by lovely leaves (some made of felt), suggestive of folk art; and seemingly abstract planes of color that turn out to depict gallery walls, urban skyscrapers or a sendup of a suave brown Hollywood interior.

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Mary Heilmann's paintings are vivid abstract planes that lend equally from the bold hues of her own imagination and the heavily saturated colors of popular culture.

Critics have long compared Mitchell's work to Claude Monet and Paul Cézanne's landscapes, particularly because they convey «landscape» from abstract planes of pure, glistening color.

Initially, Sanín created works using a gestural abstract style, like contemporaries Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, and Joan Mitchell, but found her true voice in the geometry of hard - edge, symmetrical compositions filled with flat planes of color.

The final wall is devoted to pieces from Ippolito's «Regatta Series» (1984 - 89) in which the watery color planes suggest abstract but recognizable elements like pennants, sails and boats, and black wave forms blend into blue ground in «Land's End» (1986), with the full blast of wind on sails being felt in the horizontal diptych «Windward» (1987).

A term coined by Dutch artist and architect Theo van Doesburg in 1930 to describe abstract art based on mathematic or scientific principles, the visual expression of which was an emphasis on planes and color.

Often abstracted into planes of color, Eisenman's heads laugh, cry, kiss, and bend into the glow of cell phones.

Her geometric abstract work features formal simplicity and striking sense of color through crisp lines and contrasting chromatic planes.

In introducing Murray that evening, Varnedoe referred to her work «as dramas of form and color that accept, indeed demand, to play on the more austere terrain of high abstract art, in decisions about push and pull, bright and dark, fragmented and whole, planes and volumes, sculptural and painterly, that move us before we know what they are about.»

Inspired by European modernism and closely related to Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting is a style of abstract painting characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid color spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture pColor Field painting is a style of abstract painting characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid color spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture pcolor spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane.

In his abstract paintings from the 1960s, single - colored geometric shapes pulse rhythmically across their flat ground planes, or torque the surface of the canvas.

The Irish - American painter has been reinterpreting abstract art since the 1960s, not as a purely formal exploration of color, form, planes, structure, body and light, but as a medium whose means of expression is tied to external and internal moods, literary influences and physical experiences.

That Avery's planes of color were important to Rothko as he developed his thoroughly abstract imagery is an art - historical commonplace.

The colourful photographs of abstracted forms and planes are reminiscent of Los Angeles - based artist Walead Beshty's Color Curl and Black Curl series of photograms, in which he exposes photographic paper to different coloured lights.

About evenly divided between abstract and representational works, the Meyerhoff collection demonstrates the captivating use of color by artists as different as Josef Albers (the intense «Study for Homage to the Square: Light Rising,» with its glowing inner plane of yellow) and Eric Fischl (sunbathers lavishly arranged across a yellow ground in «Saigon, Minnesota»).

Experimenting with modulations of form, color, and plane, Clark's early abstract works challenged the canvas» edge and extended the visual field of painting into the physical realm of the viewer.

Large planes of color executed with a loose brush stroke create a structured tension that asserts the artist's underlying abstract arrangement of form.

Dynamic, thick brushwork that veer from forceful to ambiguous are carefully laid over abstract color planes allowing occasional glimpses of delicate grids of silkscreen.

«Lit,» Oil and Acrylic on 2 Panels, 48 x 61 Inches Susan Sharp is an outstanding abstract painter of biomorphic and linear forms, flat planes, vivid color and highly glossy surfac...

«From Abstract Expression to Colored Planes» considers the expressive and abstract style of painting that emerged in early 1940s New York and the more stark color planes that defined practices a couple of decades Planes» considers the expressive and abstract style of painting that emerged in early 1940s New York and the more stark color planes that defined practices a couple of decades planes that defined practices a couple of decades later.

Expanding on his signature abstract geometric style, works from this period demonstrate the expansion of his color - plane theory beyond the use of primary colors and simplified planes.

Paintings from the 1950s include such works as Stephen Pace's Untitled (51 - 90), a dynamic abstract painting in which forms move into and through the picture plane in the mode of the art of Pace's teacher Hans Hofmann, Melville Price's Untitled (ca. 1959), a gestural painting in the abstract expressionist idiom in which figurative elements have a suggestive presence, and George Segal's Three Nudes (1959), in which a psychological tension is conveyed in the expressively treated figures that are integrated into spaces defined by veils or blankets of color.

Ellsworth Kelly, American minimalist painter and sculptor, renders his surroundings into abstract, essential shapes, planes of color, and empty spaces.

Since the beginning of his career in the mid - «60s, Robert Mangold (b. 1937, North Tonawanda, NY) has combined the classic elements of composition — shape, line, and color — to create abstract works of architectural scale, drawing by hand thick and thin graphite lines on subtly modulated planes of color.