Sentences with phrase «discordant colors»

Using a comic - strip technique and harsh discordant colors, his paintings comment on such social topics as the homeless and the Ku Klux Klan.

The painting's simultaneous formal cohesion and discordant color combinations create a precisely wrought tension within the painting, an effect Stella often strives for in his pictures.

An incidental mark or a discordant color offers a stain recalling the productive marriage of happenstance and decision.

Not exact matches

The power of the colors, their often discordant interaction and the expanding and contracting rhythms of the bands of paint and the raw canvas, could be stunningly direct and vibrant.

Reminiscent of discordant television color bars, Whitney's loosely laid grids operate on both optical and conceptual registers, while Serra's nearby show features photos of local veterans relegated to a common child's punishment.