Sentences with phrase «against planes of color»

Balcomb Greene's pure geometric style of juxtaposing hard edge shapes and lines against planes of color made the 1930s one of the most important periods in American painting, thus leading the way for the Abstract Expressionist painters who followed in the 1950s.

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It's as if with line from the loom - Weaver knife and weaver brush Stitch color thick into Diamond and terrace, into Planes black as wool tied by Stripe and cross, all falling in The warp and weft of weave, Patchwork tricksters playing «till Depths fill with ring and bell Purple against the harvest moon.

She turns up the retinal volume again and again in the grounds of her paintings — vast seas of cerulean blue edged by crisp white lines, or enveloping acts of domestic violence; equally riveting cadmium reds, oranges, and crimsons saturating the picture plane beneath angry gorillas, dancing Chubby Checkers, and kissing lovers; Day - Glo yellows that push up against sharp blacks as «bad guys» in black suits point guns and walk up and down staircases — and employs unusual compositional strategies to draw our attention to these expanses of high - key color.

The delights of color here isn't just for it's descriptive pitch accuracy, or even for the many satisfying moments where you feel the rightness of the sensations of one color plane vibrating against another.

His ectoplasmic figures strain like savage forces of nature against shallow fields of intense color and strict armatures that bind them to the picture plane.

Elizabeth Livingston's most recent body of work evokes all the same cinematic emphasis on visual scrutiny, moments of false security, and entrapment by employing hyper - detailed patterns of juxtaposed fabric to adorn her subjects against stark planes of color and narrative light.

Cézanne's solid planes of color insist on the surface of the painting as a flat field against which the painter acts.

Aware of predecessors such as Karl Benjamin, and John McLaughlin, and their interest in landscape and the environment, the artist moves hard edge towards a more Pop language; flat planes of intense color merging and moving against another, shifting stratas of atmosphere and light echo the intersections of urban culture and nature.