Sentences with phrase «bold planes of color»

Using bold planes of color, Johnson reaffirms the tradition of Southern California hard edge painting for this millennium.

Not exact matches

In the case of Seeded (1960), the first work on the right as visitors enter the gallery, these colors are amalgamated in an energetic mass of swirls, curves, bold lines, and planes of color that are further enlivened by patches of canvas left bare.

Mary Heilmann's paintings are vivid abstract planes that lend equally from the bold hues of her own imagination and the heavily saturated colors of popular culture.

Hume favors bold shapes, flat planes of color, high gloss paint, and reflective surfaces.

Bright colors, hard edges and bold geometry convey not just the metropolis, with overlapping planes that offer the appropriately byzantine complexity on an optical level, but the feeling of sunlight and warmth that greeted her there.

In the 1950s, when Abstract Expressionism was still in vogue, Katz broke irreverently away from the wanton brushstrokes of Pollock and de Kooning to begin painting in his signature style — bold, stylized close - ups of elegant figures assembled from intersecting planes of saturated color.

Japanese prints characterized by their broad planes of unmediated color, thick outlines, and bold patterns were another major influence on Serusier and his followers.

In it, Steinberg declared that by inventing what he dubbed the «flatbed picture plane,» Rauschenberg derived a «pictorial surface that let the world in again» — a bold and profound claim from an art historian who had upon their emergence in the 1950s loudly decried the Combines.2 Implicitly contrasting Rauschenberg's achievement with the conventions of Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting, Steinberg claims for Rauschenberg not simply a great formal advancement, but one that forced a shift in the discourse of visual art to include once more the social world.

Funny how things work: His layered prints, planes of color barely contained by bold, stylized lines, are richer and more vibrant than the paintings exhibited in an adjacent gallery.

In many of his paintings, organic - looking forms are hemmed in by rigid geomtric planes of color; thick, bold gestural strokes serve loosely as both directional signposts and visual barriers.

Renowned for his use of bold, monochromatic planes of color, Ellsworth Kelly (1923 - 2015) created a fifth of his oeuvre in black and white.