Here
the boldly colored backgrounds and mystical calligraphy surrounding his menagerie of animal - headed people and personified rag dolls in the works seen at the 2000 Whitney Biennial were replaced with muted color fields lightly penciled with patterns suggestive of DNA helices and chemical or mechanical diagrams.
United across all three levels of the museum by the artist's use of «supergraphics» — lengthy text excerpts printed at enormous size on
a boldly colored background — The Production Line of Happiness offers 35 years of beautifully made, conceptually rich photography that mines the history of contemporary art and modern political opposition.
Not exact matches
A pretty dress from Christian Dior in
boldly colored flowers on a navy and burgundy
background in a semi sheer silk.
In her artworks, she pulled figures from movie posters, magazines, and advertisements, and set them against
boldly colored painted
backgrounds.
In these paintings,
boldly colored shapes are juxtaposed against a textured and heavily worked white / grey / putty
background — a technique that can be traced back to Rothenberg's radical Horse Paintings of the 1970s.
The essential formula for a Baechler floats an open,
boldly traced black figure over a ground of whites and
color, the more distressed and worked the
background the better.
Intuitive gestures form the
background of his
boldly colored canvases, balanced, or unbalanced with an amalgam of scrawled, spontaneous drawing, drips and cartoonish, child - like forms.