His style was highly original; his landscape painting employs clearly
defined areas of colour structured by abstract patterns and shapes.
Not exact matches
Impressive though his hand is, this alone is not the
defining characteristic
of Jones's work; his eye for
colour is uniquely his own, juxtaposing mint greens with deep reds and vast
areas of flat luminous yellow with thick navy blue outlines.
The silkscreen process, which lends itself to large
areas of flat, sharply
defined colour, was ideal for the formal simplicity
of Caulfield's compositions.
The adaptation
of Klee's line to a post-Cubist style, with the filling in
of defined areas with strong
colour and heavy pencil shading, was particularly characteristic
of Ben Nicholson's painting after 1947, though his forms are less rectilinear than Hepworth's.
Then in 1947 Rothko eliminated recognizable forms
defined by lines, building up his surfaces with irregular
colour stains, high in key, which formed a complex
of distinct, segmented
areas.
Back in the United States during the Great Depression
of the 1930s, he developed a new style based on the rhythmic contrast between geometric
areas of flat
colour and objects clearly
defined in linear perspective.
This light, white kitchen extension, which includes a dining and seating
area, has
defined areas thanks to the use
of block
colours; purple for the kitchen and green for the dining
area.