He arranged flat color fields into repetitive, geometric patterns and created all - over, non-illusionistic surfaces.
Not exact matches
In this rigorous series, begun in 1949, Albers explored chromatic interactions with
flat colored squares
arranged concentrically.
His use of
flat planes of
color arranged in rows that relate to one another horizontally, vertically and diagonally suggests the synesthetic blending of the senses — «hearing»
color, «seeing» sound — and evokes the painterly experiments of the synchromists from a century ago.
The small photograph Night Jam, 2013, is a study in
color contrast, depicting gently creased strips of variously hued photographic paper
arranged on top of a paper guillotine, bringing to mind series such as «Lighter,» 2005 — , for which Tillmans turns
flat pictures into three - dimensional objects by bending, folding, or creasing photographic prints and exhibiting them in Plexiglas boxes; or the famous «paper drops,» 2001 — , for which he takes pictures of photographic paper gently furled into drop - like forms.
The works on view quite literally orbit Andre's floor - mounted works and sculptures, offering a pointed commentary on the
flat panels and often distressed surfaces of his materials, each
arranged in patterns that emphasize
color and formal interplay.