Using a muted colour palette, the practitioner
creates atmospheric compositions, expanding the boundaries of tradition.
Not exact matches
Skyspaces — enclosures with apertures at the top that have been strategically crafted to reveal the local qualities of
atmospheric light — have become Turrell's signature
compositions: to date he has
created 82 Skyspaces in 26 countries and 21 in the United States.
In Abstraktes Bild, Richter uses pastel blues and yellows to
create soft geometrical shapes that flow in and out of each other resulting in a fluid
composition of immense
atmospheric quality, half way between a landscape painting and an abstraction.
These include increased average land and ocean temperatures that lead to reduced snowpack levels, hydrological changes, and sea level rise; changing precipitation patterns that will
create both drought and extreme rain events; and increasing
atmospheric CO2 that will contribute to ocean acidification, changes in species
composition, and increased risk of fires.
The time I speak of is the time when the surface of the planet cooled enough that the planet itself was not contributing noticably to its
atmospheric temperature, and when the atmosphere was substanially like it is now in
composition (after all the volcanic crud had settled out and early plant life had
created free oxegen).