Sentences with phrase «abstractions in primary colors»

As one of the essayists astutely points out, he even smuggles in reference to Dutch geometric abstraction in the primary colors of the workstation.4 That one prominent art critic's review frames Marshall's retrospective as «not an appeal for progress in race relations but a ratification of advances already made» is somewhat bewildering in the face of this opening gambit.5 After all, both of these paintings date from the year after the 1992 acquittal of Los Angeles police officers in the beating of Rodney King and the ensuing waves of unrest.

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Delineated in high - key primary and secondary colors and sequenced horizontally across nine panels, they embodied the unifying thread here: abstraction as coded communication in pictographic form.

Yet, non-Western influences are cited only in discussions of the works by artists of color, while the overarching themes of industrialization and geometric abstraction as American art's primary interests in that period are preserved from earlier presentations of the collection.

Already in its first, small room — in the opposite direction from the office — one has the black paintings, the abstractions largely in primary colors, and the women.

A tall abstraction looks conventional enough, in three irregular fields of bright primary colors.

He comes closest to Sigmar Polke, his teacher, with primary colors, broader and lighter brushwork, breaks in the composition, and allusions all but buried in layer upon layer of abstraction.

Following the certain degree of the abstraction within the post-impressionist artworks, Piet Mondrian was interested in geometrical abstraction and the use of primary colors — red, yellow and blue and its complex relations to geometric shapes and lines.

«Benjamin was one of four artists in the landmark 1959 exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art that coined the term «hard - edge painting,» now in common usage for geometric abstraction that relies on color as a primary subject.

In the abstractions, the names of primary colors were also written with colored tape, underlining Agut's affinity for the work of Piet Mondrian.

Artists representing various movements and geographical backgrounds are all there: Cubist, Dada, and Russian avant - garde artists of the 1910s and 1920s, with their images of flat, intersecting planes and floating shapes; artists associated with Minimalism, Op art, and hard - edge abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s, whose primary interest lay in the investigation of reductive form and color; and contemporary artists who continue to exploit the infinite potential of simple geometries.