Sentences with phrase «fields of color»

Each painting revealed a consistency of steady curves and constrained marks, partially adumbrated surfaces, replete with figures, birds, planets, meteors, all wistful billowing amorphous shapes shielding obtuse forms and divested fields of color, all emerging into luminous, conflicting patterns.
I feel like the addition of figurative and naturalistic elements in the abstract forms and fields of color ground the paintings in a way.
There are several different types of line paintings presented in Curvilinear: some feature central, narrow fields of color while others have flat unmodulated backgrounds; some contain only uniform lines, or lines with sharp spikes, or «claws,» as Feitelson called them; and others have thick, curving lines of multiple colors that bend together in a gentle sway.
Her development of a grid in the late 1950s wherein she gently inscribed penciled lines over subtle fields of color marked a turning point in the history of abstract painting and established the geometric and spati
KB: Mark Rothko isn't necessarily considered a Color Field painter, but I love his very nuanced fields of color.
Sillman turned instead to the diagram, injecting into her lush, abstract fields of color the sort of stringent line so often used to communicate complex information.
The edges of his fields of color are delineated by hand, which lends his compositions a haptic quality.
In this vein, he began to draw large fields of color across his canvases with Afro combs, squeegees, and homemade rakes to create what he called «Energy Fields».
Vaporous fields of color are composed over a white ground using gestural strokes of Flashe, a vinyl - based acrylic paint that is simultaneously translucent and chromatically rich.
Yet, to the discerning eye, 1944 - N No. 1 is more than fields of color and a few lines.
He applied «automatic technique» in his artwork by a colored stain and orchestrating the composition by directly tracing solid forms and infusing them with fields of color.
Typically fields of color marked with faint charcoal lines suggesting a door or a window, the Open paintings were originally inspired by the sight of a small canvas leaning against a larger one.
This style of painting, which employed stripes, stains, and fields of color was as also practiced by his colleagues Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland.
Like Frankenthaler and Diebenkorn, Ellsworth Kelly used large, strong fields of color in his work.
He often set off stippled or marbled monochrome shapes against solid fields of color, creating vigorous and compelling compositions.
They are reined in by architectonic structures, broad fields of color are interrupted by smaller gestures and idiosyncratic forms... his work has a palimpsest effect, where layers of previous activity bleed through the final layers of paint.»
His works feature figures or objects — often domestic ones such as empty chairs — rendered in solid fields of color and employed as allegories for contemporary life in Ethiopia.
This special exhibition offers prime examples of Sultan's style, characterized by stark, black forms amid vibrant fields of color.
Reductive fields of color focusing on surface and light set off paintings by Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, and Jules Olitski.
«The Hole Truth» by Raphael Rubinstein Art in America Howardena Pindell has pursued a number of avenues in her work, but it is her fields of color punctuated with layered scatterings of tiny circles from a hole punch that are instantly recognizable (above).
He balances the glitter against vibrant fields of color, collaged images, and fearless gestures.
Enveloping the gallery, vast opaque and translucent fields of color move like a river across the screens.
These works shown by David Benrimon Fine Art successfully combine a number of painterly styles, including abstract expressionist drips and flat fields of color, with recognizable narrative outlines of fish and fowl.
For Gorchov, the elusive goal has been to get fields of color to float in a room.
The second exhibition titled: «Driven to Abstraction: drips, cubes and fields of color» which will be on view through August 19 features the works of artists Bill Anders, Harold Bauer, Elizabeth Bolich, Gail Cotovsky, Melanie Deal, Judy Edelman, Anne Hayden Stevens, Ruyell Ho, Barbara Horowitz, Sarah Kaier, Sharon Knipmeyer, Jim Lange, Joan B. McLane, Katherine Nemanich, Martha Ruschman, Sharon Swidler, Christopher Voss, Barbra Wagner and Esther Williams - Hays.
They are tender depictions of flesh and striking fields of color.
For a brief time, his forms became fairly hard - edged, his fields of color relatively unmodulated.
Progressively integrating color into his pared - down environments, Walsh paints smooth, clearly contoured fields of color on which various shapes are composed: floating squares and rectangles hung from bisecting horizontal lines or huddled together at the corner of the canvas, suggesting weight, volume or pulsing movement.
The common thread between their styles was the orientation towards monolithic imagery, flat fields of color and unbroken surfaces.
Most recently, I've been interested in the poeticism of the individual hand and how contours can be characterized by the intersection of fields of color, rather than line.
Without a defined palette for each piece, she reacts to the fields of color as she works and selectively integrates new hues that expand on the expected potential color combinations.
She instead wipes them out with her confident brushstrokes offering uninterrupted, contemplative fields of color open to self - reflection.
His signature style consisted of flat fields of color and sharp perspectives, utilizing a vocabulary of road signs, corporate logos, electrical wires and freeway underpasses to form a graphic, stylized American landscape.
From abstract expressionism, to gorgeous fields of color, to minimal manipulation of surface and texture, painting and sculpture was the arena where these ideas found their most varied expression.
Entering the exhibition, one confronts a group of artworks by Gunther Gerzso, Ignacio Salazar, and Sebastián that suggest constructed space through the use of abstract geometries and fields of color.
Stamatelos places his subject matter into fields of color that he creates through multiple layers of colored ink stains, dripped on Plexiglas.
Deep fields of color fight with repetitive hand styles creating purely abstract paintings.
Frankenthaler explored a variety of linear components in her oil paintings of the 1950s, but in the 1960s she shifted her focus, embracing acrylic paints to explore open, flat fields of color, evident in the large and glowing 1973 painting «Nature Abhors a Vacuum.»
This shift, as well as a deepening involvement in nature — the artist's Rio de Janeiro studio borders her beloved Botanic Gardens — has influenced Milhazes» new work, making it even more rigorously structured with broader fields of color and new elements derived from abstractions of natural and architectural forms.
His way to abstraction was a trajectory of distorting the figure painting to the level of abstraction and the equal treatment between fields of color, shapes and lines.
He did as much for Barnett Newman, who made empty fields of color, and for Joseph Cornell, who made evocative little boxes.
Butler's trees are pushed in various formal directions that include reducing them to simple fields of color, painting maelstroms of directional brushstrokes invoking swaying limbs, and composing two - dimensional branching systems that fill a canvas whole.
Arkin's fields of color are deeply serene and her artistic vocabulary focuses on connections and boundaries.
In a series of new drawings on engineering paper, materials that repel one another are layered to create fields of color resembling chemical samples.
Campuzano's hand is everywhere in these drawings: the imperfectly drawn letters; the fields of color that serve as the backdrop for texts that on closer viewing reveal themselves to be veiled in skeins of tiny ink markings, obsessively drawn and consuming much time and labor.
The ravishing fields of color that appear in Amm's gesso board paintings, which will constitute the entirety of this exhibition, represent one of the most sustained and sensuous bodies of work being made by a contemporary European artist.
While neither expressed much interest in surrealism, Diebenkorn's automatism and Matisse's fields of color both find in art a sense of dreamlike suspension.
Through her painterly mark making, raw textured surface, large fields of color, and calligraphic details, Fitzgerald creates contemplative gestural abstractions with an emotional resonance.
More recently, Boelens has made a series of large - scale photograms, using various objects or textiles that are folded repeatedly over the duration of the exposure and create radiant fields of color.
Utilizing abstract geometries that rival those of M.C. Escher, as well as representational elements like waves, trees, and garlands of flowers, which she stylizes to the point of uncanny hyperreality, Steinkamp through her immersive environments dematerializes galleries» architecture into undulating fields of color.
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