Sentences with phrase «experiment with color fields»

His monochrome aluminum sculptures reflect an aesthetic similar to his paintings, and he continued to experiment with color fields and abstraction long after the style fell out of vogue.

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Sometime in 1940 Rothko makes his last figurative painting, then experiments with Surrealism, and eventually does away entirely with any figural suggestion in his paintings, abstracting them further and paring them down to indeterminate shapes floating in fields of color - Multiforms as they were called by others - which were greatly influenced by Milton Avery's style of painting.

In the 1940s and 1950s the main groups within the Abstract expressionism were the «Gesture Painters» and the «Color - Field Painters», who experimented with new techniques for applying paint: dripping, pouring, throwing, squirting, squeegeeing, and spattering, and with the use of unconventional tools, such as wall paper brushes, sticks, and trowels.

Ellsworth Kelly (born 1923), best known for his large - scale, color field painting, first experimented with reductive geometry in paint and wood in 1949.

I first explored the field of photography, traveling around the world, discovering spiritual places, deep landscapes, places of origin, experimenting with abstract colors and textures, always seeking the visual heart of existence in the desert, mountains, canyons, rivers, and cities of this great world.

Sillman also creates prints and works on paper and occasionally experiments with representation, drawing figures into sparse color fields.

Dan Christensen, Serpens, 1968 Acrylic on canvas, 112 x 173.5 inches Courtesy of Spanierman Modern, NY May 15 — August 30, 2009 For more than forty years, American artist Dan Christensen — long associated with the Color Field movement — experimented with colors, shapes, and forms in his large - scale paintings.

The rapidly changing technology of acrylic permitted large expanses of color to be both intense and very thin, which allowed the Color Field painters to experiment with extremes of economy and clarity in their paint handcolor to be both intense and very thin, which allowed the Color Field painters to experiment with extremes of economy and clarity in their paint handColor Field painters to experiment with extremes of economy and clarity in their paint handling.

Within the sketchbooks are over a thousand drawings that reflect his interest in both nature and the built environment of California, along with studies of figures, portraits of his wife, and experiments with abstract expressionist color fields.

The path forward in art - historical terms was split between those artistic movements more aligned with deeper investigations into the increasingly essential properties of a particular medium or reductive practices (e.g., Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, Minimalism) and those movements that actively sought an expansion of the arts into a plurality of new forms, hybrid media, and interactive experience (e.g., expanded cinema, intermedia, installation art, performance).13 Of these choices, hippie modernism would follow the latter course through experiments that drew upon the theatrical qualities and the participatory actions of the Happening, embraced Fluxus's democratic spirit in its everyone - is - an - artist philosophy, explored the work of experimental filmmakers seeking to expand cinematic experience, and experimented with the fluid nature of light and sound as well as the interactive qualities of kinetic art.

This exhibition explores the highly formulated and transitional status of geometrical abstraction in the work of women artists from three generations: beginning with (Neo) concrete works on paper from the 1950s by Lygia Pape, to Minimal and Color Field paintings from the 1960s by Rosemarie Castoro and Gina Pane, the 1960 - 80s Pop Art influenced pattern paintings by Barbro Östlihn, to post-Concretist installations, structural and systemic experiments and text pieces from the 1970s and 80s by Lydia Okumura, Lenora de Barros, Martha Araújo, Dóra Maurer and Samia Halaby, to the original contemporary formulations of this history by Paloma Bosquê.

After settling in New York, Kuwayama eschewed both traditional Japanese painting and Abstract Expressionism, which dominated contemporary art, and instead experimented with highly reductive painting, producing canvases with brightly colored fields of paint in horizontal and vertical compositions, such as Untitled: red and blue (1961).

Though he maintained his freedom, experimenting with other movements such as Expressionism and Color Field painting and never truly becoming a member of the Surrealist group, Miró was among the first to incorporate automatic drawing into his practice.

While 20th century experiments with the effects of pure color — particularly Color Field painting and abstract expressionism — often relied upon immersive force and the use of large canvases to envelop the viewer's entire body, Amm's work elicits sustained acts of seeing and a more consciously analytical stcolor — particularly Color Field painting and abstract expressionism — often relied upon immersive force and the use of large canvases to envelop the viewer's entire body, Amm's work elicits sustained acts of seeing and a more consciously analytical stColor Field painting and abstract expressionism — often relied upon immersive force and the use of large canvases to envelop the viewer's entire body, Amm's work elicits sustained acts of seeing and a more consciously analytical stance.

It began as a large color field painting, an experiment with color.

Experimenting with modulations of form, color, and plane, Clark's early abstract works challenged the canvas» edge and extended the visual field of painting into the physical realm of the viewer.

The color fields serve as a plastic means of creating depth, the abrasions a reference to the push - pull spatial theories of Abstract Expressionist Hans Hoffmann and his experiments with the perception of dimension.

Gilliam's experiments with paint application and his transformation of the canvas support elaborated upon the ideas and processes of Color Field painting.

Under Guston's guidance, Whitney, who felt drawn to the basic formal qualities of Abstract Expressionism, the pure chroma of the Color Field movement, and the minimalist approach of such artists as Donald Judd, began to experiment with abstraction.

Back in Washington, Noland and Louis began experimenting with the «soak - stain» technique, pouring pigment into schematic patterns that reduced painting to a single element - color - and helped usher in the «color - field» school of painting.

As the years tumbled onward, Gerson experimented with almost every imaginable abstract and figurative approach to image making, including Geometric Abstraction, Color Field Painting, and Lyrical Abstraction.

With their vivid colors, rapid movements and psychedelic look, they evoke alchemic experiments in the field of filmmaking.

While Art Student League instructors such as Charles Alston, Richard Pousette - Dart, and Theodoros Stamos continued experimenting with elements of Abstract Expressionism, younger artists such as Bruce Dorfman, Helen Frankenthaler, Peter Golfinopoulos, Stephen Greene, Paul Jenkins, Ronnie Landfield, Larry Poons, and Peter Reginato, was engaged with alternative movements including color field painting, lyrical abstraction, pop art and assemblage.