Sentences with phrase «canvases of solid color»

Panel Paintings 2004 — 2009 features seven works consisting of two to four canvases of solid color.

Not exact matches

She further develops the complexity of her compositions by adding oil painted motifs that mimic her original marks, saturating portions of the fabric with pools of solid color, and interrupting the surface of the canvas by cutting out sections to create mysteriously dark breaks in its form.»

Color Field is characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid color spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture pColor Field is characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid color spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture pcolor spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane.

In works like WB - 1627, the dark grey showing through is the specially prepared canvas surface; and the solid, velvety light areas are unmarked portions of carefully applied, rich white oil color.

The color contrasts are startling, as in «Yellow Half» (1963), a canvas nearly six feet square with a solid V of vibrant red bordered by lemon yellow and then a more subtle red, the whole set on a stark black ground; that is, the ground forms two right triangles on either side of the V. Characteristically, Mr. Noland later went back to these V's, as in «Songs: Indian Love Call» (1984), but this time with very painterly effects, crumpling the flat surfaces with broken strokes of thick pigment.

Beginning with black and white drawings of biomorphic shapes and gestural marks on gridded, solid or patterned grounds, the artist makes color studies that become maquettes for his large - scale canvases.

Other shock tactics are used: emptiness (large canvases painted a solid color, with a thin line running down the side), pornography and scatology, lack of painting technique, or abstract non-representation carried to an extreme (see page 57).

His large - scale abstract paintings feature fields of solid color with little depth or perspective, created by pouring, spraying, and sponging paints and dyes onto the canvas.

Inspired by European modernism and closely related to Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting is a style of abstract painting characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid color spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture pColor Field painting is a style of abstract painting characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid color spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture pcolor spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane.

Many of his canvases display a restrained use of color which give specific direction to the solid - looking paintings.

Contino's early works are hard - edged geometric paintings (including shaped canvases) composed of thick lines and contrasting solid colors that divide the canvas and form intricate shapes.

This marks the beginning of his «color chart» paintings, in which he systematically applied square hues of solid color to large canvases.

These Kelly works seem baffling at first, maybe scoff - worthy — simple, solid canvases of color.

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.

«A blazing sensuousness of color carried them, intensified by the circular format; since the circles were centered in square canvases, their form seemed gravity - free, not to be read as solid substance.

«Color Field,» Lou's largest sculpture to date, is on view starting this weekend at the Neuberger Museum of Art along with the artist's «Solid Grey» and «Color / White» canvases, two series of woven beaded works.

The exhibition Liza Lou: Color Field and Solid Grey also includes Lou's Solid Grey and Color / White canvases, a series of «paintings» woven out of glass beads.

He is best known for his minimalist works consisting of several solid colored, geometrically shaped pieces of stretched canvas fitted together to form a single work.

He had smeared a line of cadmium red light on a strip of masking tape that divided a vertical canvas painted cadmium red deep into two halves, creating a bilaterally symmetrical image of solid color.

Louis's late style exemplifies his evolution from solid color to spacious canvases with sparse color, although his artistic focus always remained on investigations of pure color and space.

Abstract Expressionist color field painters like Mark Rothko practiced a form of color blocking by dividing their canvases into hazy sections of solid color.

For this viewer, the tartan abstractions work best when the composition remains informal, seemingly arbitrary, and leaves all the edges of the canvas without reference to a solid color background or a formal symmetry.