Sentences with phrase «area of color»

He started experimenting with flat areas of color in 1953 - 54.

Many designers advise not including more than five large areas of color when pulling a look together.

The stitched lines, visible where the canvas panels are joined, recall the sharp edges between areas of color characteristic of hard - edge abstract paintings.

The grids of shelves, doors, and flooring flatten them further, as do the uniform areas of color.

He leaves behind the pictorial schemes of shaped canvases and flat areas of color.

These paintings have thick dark lines and large areas of color.

Bearden subsequently began experimenting with a technique in which he painted broad areas of color on various thicknesses of rice paper and glued the papers on canvas, usually in several layers.

The Washington Color School was defined in the 1950s through the 1970s by an influential group of D.C. based artists, including Kenneth Noland, Gene Davis, Morris Louis, and Paul Reed, who were central to the Color Field movement — an abstract art movement that broke from abstract expressionism by creating formal compositions of large unmodulated areas of color in monumental scale.

About his process, George Pearlman writes, «I start my paintings by placing areas of colors on the canvas; these colors react to one another in relationships that have a specific sense of volume and space.

A significant member of the late 19th - century post-Impressionist movement, Bernard championed cloisonism, the practice of reducing compositions into areas of color delineated by strong, black contours.

In her 1996 video Line, Ms. Donegan simultaneously riffs on Jean - Luc Godard's film Contempt (a spoof of Homer's Odyssey) and Barnett Newman's «zip» paintings, wherein Mr. Newman separated areas of color with line.

His earliest Washington works were large, clean edged paintings with flatly applied areas of color within the stylistic idiom of Washington Color Field Painting.

Other Hofmann students include Giorgio Cavallon, who is represented by a canvas in which areas of color seem absorbed by and emergent from an atmosphere of shimmering diaphanous light, and John Little, whose use of broad, muscular strokes that activate his surfaces are suggestive of the art of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, with whom he was closely connected after moving to East Hampton, New York, in the late 1940s.

Dappled dogs have lighter areas intermingled with darker areas of color and occur in all colors, sometimes the dappling shows as spots or splotches which may be all over the coat or only in small areas.

Newman's mature work is characterized by areas of color pure and flat separated by thin vertical lines, or «zips» as Newman called them, exemplified by Vir Heroicus Sublimis in the collection of MoMA.

Mr. Seliger's earliest paintings, often depicting botanical forms and insects, fused small areas of color in a manner suggestive of stained - glass windows.

Often associated with Abstract Expressionism, color field painting is characterized by flat areas of color spread across the picture plane.

Artists associated with «hard - edge» painting in the 1960s, such as Ellsworth Kelly, Kenneth Noland, and Frank Stella, rejected the subjective, gestural emphasis of Abstract Expressionism in favor of sharply defined areas of color.

This is characterised by areas of color separated by thin vertical lines, or «zips» as Newman called them.

Historically, AbEx has been broken into two tendencies: Gestural Abstraction (or Action Painting), which emphasized the energy of the painter's mark, and Color Field Painting, which focused on the creation of vast, seemingly floating areas of color.

In another work, Descending Forms (2010), part of the Exploration Spatiale series, Richard's work becomes completely abstract, as amorphous areas of color seem to swim in and around one another.

The term was coined by writer, curator and Los Angeles Times art critic Jules Langsner, along with Peter Selz, in 1959, to describe the work of painters from California, who, in their reaction to the more painterly or gestural forms of Abstract expressionism, adopted a knowingly impersonal paint application and delineated areas of color with particular sharpness and clarity.

The result of a deliberative process guided by careful attention to spatial relationships, the large - scale oil paintings of Suzan Frecon (born 1941) are composed of asymmetrical curves that result in minor and major measured areas of color.

His works from these decades are expressionistic, radical stylizations that feature his signature post-Fauve palette with freely brushed areas of color defined by strong outlines.

In their works they dealt with what they considered to be the fundamental formal elements of abstract painting: pure, unmodulated areas of color; flat, two - dimensional space; monumental scale; and the varying shape of the canvas itself.

However, all of these (other than the dilutes of black) refer to the same area of the color spectrum: yellow, gelbe, tan, fawn, orange, red, rust, mahogany, etc..

Active areas of color are either entirely surrounded by rectilinear geometric frameworks or are placed above a pristine narrow stripe positioned at the bottom edge of the canvas.

Color field painters efface the individual mark in favor of large, flat, stained and soaked areas of color, considered to be the essential nature of visual abstraction along with the actual shape of the canvas, which Frank Stella in particular achieved in unusual ways with combinations of curved and straight edges.

He still works in oil on linen, with resolutely two - dimensional areas of color.

He gives his matte colors and slightly rounded rectangles, separated by thin areas of color, the look of stone slabs.

The «Strange New Beauty» exhibition proceeds from the «dark field» pieces, his earliest attempts, to larger scale works in which high tones and opaque, bright areas of color come closest to Impressionism.

More than many of White's contemporaries, the artist enjoys the spatial illusion of paint, creating areas of color that read completely flat while other passages extrude and recede, impressions often complicated by the introduction of objects and her recent experiments with text.

Produced without a camera or negative, the new series Blushes, 2000 are the careful result of the artist filtering light into concentrated areas of color and shadow.

Rothko's use of broad, simplified areas of color (rather than gestural splashes and drips of paint) caused his style to be categorized as «Colorfield Painting.»

From a distance, one sees an abstract pattern of lines intersecting areas of color.

The same affinities inspire C. Gregory Gummersall's sharp acrylic colors over collage, Melissa Meyer in her reduction of controlled brushwork to wash textures, and Elizabeth Gourlay's thin parallels over looser areas of color, like a darkened Agnes Martin or a lightened Paul Klee.

The vast areas of color in a Newman or a Clyfford Still, the expressionist brush strokes of a Pollock or a de Kooning, all have their traces in Rauschenberg's early work.

«As individual areas of color break up and seems to dissolve, the point of departure becomes less crucial....

Min's paintings turn on the interactions and relationships between different areas of color, their relative value and transparency, and the moods these colors engender.

Post-painterly abstraction encompasses a broad group of American painters who reacted to Abstract Expressionism, either through the pursuit of Hard - edge abstraction or by creating open compositions of washes and poured areas of color.

Koons highlights the hyperreal, exaggerated nature of images pulled from coupons and magazines in precise areas of color.

However, due to the use of translucent material, seemingly flat areas of color eventually permit the viewer's gaze to pass into the depths of these wall works.»

His emphasis on bold areas of color encased by dark outlines recalls the Synthetist style of artists like Paul Gaugin and Henri Matisse.

Across its expansive surface Untitled unveils the complexity of Still's oeuvre as he brings together divergent areas of color, creating a palpable sense of tension as large sea of deep blue tussles for supremacy with subtle passages of lighter pigment as a vertical expanse of scorching red, spreads across the surface like a trail of molten lava.

The artist often plays with basic geometry, building complex architectural renderings out of simple shapes areas of color.

In 2015, when some of these were exhibited at the Getty museum, they were a revelation; never before had an artist so daringly reduced a painting to only one or two glowing areas of color.

Both Ms. Bilotta and Ms. Hin work in the Abstract Expressionist tradition, but with variations from dense, layered surfaces to more open areas of color.

She continued with this approach in the early «60s, but with a difference: in some paintings broad areas of color combine with linear elements so narrow as to seem drawn, resulting in canvases with no sense of division between the drawn and the painted.

Pollock's drip painting (Number 6, 1949) is dark; his pre-drip The Blue Unconscious is muted, as is Philip Guston's Passage (1957), which was painted when he was already growing uneasy with pure abstraction and, working «in a tension provoked by the contradictions I find in painting,» beginning to clump his elegant brushstrokes into areas of color against a graying field.