Sentences with phrase «brushy color»

Featuring areas of brushy color and an overlay of a dancer's legs, Poise showcases Rauschenberg's characteristic juxtapositions of disparate elements and reflects the significance of his many collaborations with dancers and choreographers, most notably Merce Cunningham.

The fields of brushy color that split and cleave in an untitled abstraction from 1949 are particularly reminiscent of Still.

In some works, these personages swim or surf through brushy color fields (in one they seem to be hot - tubbing in outer space).

The work Dodd exhibited in the 1950s shows the influences of the period's gestural abstraction, with areas of loose, brushy color filling the spaces between recognizable subjects, like the cows she initially exhibited.

Not exact matches

Bui's distinctive artwork, full of brushy line work and rich color, beautifully illustrates Phi's lines, focusing intently on the expressive faces of the boy and his father and the vivid environments they live in — cool, midnight blue by the river while they fish, surrounded by leafy foliage and an understated yet still slightly ominous No Trespassing sign, and warm, sunshiny yellow when they're back in the warmth of home and around the dinner table, enjoying the fruits of their labor.

The works are brushy, open, assured, and masterful, employing both naturalistic and abstract color.»

A number of especially romantic paintings are notable for their brushy, atmospheric depths; they depict more - or-less real objects overwhelmed by preternatural forces... Experienced together, the paintings conjure a vibrant, eclectic mysticism, based in fertile allusions and buoyant color and texture.

Stuffed with foam or stretched over starbursts of stretcher bars, these exuberant works combine bold T - shirt graphics with brushy renderings of rabbits and snowmen, and cheerful colors with ambiguous connotations.

You have this kind of brushy mark, and then you have this very calligraphic line, and then you can work tonally, where all the colors are close together.

In this way his most relevant counterpart from the United States may be Robert Ryman, though while the American emphasized his paintings» unorthodox supports by purging color, Mr. Viallat soaks his tarps and parasols with brushy strokes in a bright, Matissean range of blues and yellows, pinks and whites.

This late painting shows concentric circles, brushy painterliness and gorgeous color, as before, but there's an important difference: The palette is darker and uneven saturation gives an illusion of texture.

Otherwise, Müller's naked seductresses, who also fill his smaller works, are rendered in pale, metallic whites, greens, oranges, blues and purples — a cold carnality barely redeemed by brushy swipes of saturated color.

Both qualities are evident in Knight's Heritage, an important transitional piece in which Truitt still employed a brushy texture to define the paint surface and actual grooves to mark the three divisions (elements she abandoned in her later, smoother work) but began to break out of the somber tones of her earliest work and embrace glowing color.

In What Once Denoted Chaos is Now a Matter of Record, two candelabras nearly disappear in the general dazzle of crockery fragments, bright color and brushy paint.

Typically, Bischoff's newer works contain a multitude of color shapes, lines, squiggles and daubs deployed over a light, brushy field.

Instead, enjoy Scott's brushwork, the brushy strokes, the energetic gestural markings, the sweeps and scribbles of colors that tumble and flow over one another.

The fame of her early stain paintings and her identification with transparent, fragile hues notwithstanding, the majority of Frankenthaler's most achieved later works - that is, those made from the 1970's on - derive at least part of their expressiveness from the way their luminous (or dark and smoldering) color shifts from brushy, transparent washes to declarative, superimposed strokes.

Brushy layers of moody colors meet in sharp angles to create rhythms of space, light, and time.

There's also a solid helping of funkier, more - organic - looking abstraction here — a veiny network of yellow and black lines by Daniel Reynolds, a brushy green canvas by Gregory Montreuil, a spooky painting in pesto green and light purple by Gail Fitzgerald that looks like some ghostly undersea creature (and suggests a miniature, low - key Sigmar Polke) and, probably my favorite work here, a square with a few barely there marks, whiffs of different colors by Roberta Allen.

The arching motifs are brushy passages of paint, checkerboard squares, and general noodling around with the brush over airbrushed planes of color.

Starting around 1950, Rothko built his reputation — the reputation that survives to this day — on almost - geometric abstractions done in luminous washes of color: a brushy rectangle of sunset red on a corn - yellow ground, or maybe Corvette blue floating on Kustom Kar purple.

Noting that the Meyerhoffs wanted a more colorful Rothko than they were able to buy, Cooper said that while «color is very important in the collection, not all of it is brushy and expressive.»

His paintings» familial resemblances reside foremost in size (small), surface (matte, brushy), color (saturated), edges (hard, but unruled) and spatial illusion (not much).»

Drowning Girl showed a brunette being deluged beneath a torrent of fluid color, a witty rejoinder to De Kooning's famously brushy paintings of women.

His work from the early Fifties is typical of the time: brushy areas of color offset by spidery lines demarcating planes and establishing their own wiggly independence.