Sentences with phrase «colour against a black background»

You ventured over to the dark side my dear — The dark floral side that is I'm with you on not being a fan of girlie florals however strong colour against a black background somehow punks it up just the right amount to turn my head.

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The Harlem Renaissance, with its celebration of African American music, art, literature and history, was in full force, as paintings such as William H. Johnson's vibrantly coloured Street Life, Harlem (1939) and Arthur Dove's Swing Music (Louis Armstrong)(1938, below) suggest, while the latter also reflects the rising force of abstraction, its irregular shapes in varying reds and yellows against a deep black background evoking «red hot» jazz in a darkened space.

Vividly coloured geometric disks play against a background of vigorous black and white brushwork.

He had merely given his «stream» painting a larger theatre; an aerated web of silver and black line, of spattered paint, against a background of delicate colour diffusions and stains, replaced the old opaque, resistant pigment.