Sentences with phrase «black abstraction randomly»

In the 1970's, the decade of his death, Lewis's work seems to take on new vigor, especially in paintings like the spare, Minimalist «No. 2» of 1973, an all - black abstraction randomly scored with thin, vertical lines of white, and «Blue and Boogie» of 1974, a knockout of a painting in which a dynamic whir of bright blue patches — like a Coney Island Cyclone ride — animates an all - black field.