Sentences with phrase «flat color planes»

These hybrid images of flat color planes and illusory depth, executed in acrylic, spray paint and computer programs like Photoshop and Illustrator, have a pronounced retinal effect Elrod gets by putting sharp geometric shapes out of focus.

This is a well spiked with a few big names and themes: the color theory of Josef Albers, the concentric lines of early Frank Stella, and the irregular shapes and flat color planes of Ellsworth Kelly.

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The pastel - colored world of Zubrowka is captured with all the idiosyncrasy and precision Anderson is known for: written notes, books and objects are shot straight on with loving detail, flat - planed shots center characters in the middle of the frame, and hand - crafted miniatures depict many of the film's more fantastical settings and vehicles.

The Fauves were influenced by painters such as Cezanne, Gauguin, and van Gogh, who also simplified their paintings into either planes or flat forms, or used energetic and expressive bright colors.

Highway overpasses, empty offices, cityscapes, and even public figures» faces are reduced into planes of flat color, which the artist carefully paints in taped - off portions, creating crisp images that sit somewhere between the handmade art of paintings, cartoon - like animation, and mass - produced perfection.

Color Field is characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid color spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture pColor Field is characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid color spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture pcolor spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane.

He cuts off backgrounds with a tree, a wall, a cliff, the el, or just plain darkness, but rarely as flat color and almost never parallel to the picture plane.

Diebenkorn's practice is unique in that he deftly marries the flat color and planes of brushwork so lauded by the Abstract Expressionists with representational subjects that are influenced by some of Matisse's visual tropes and his dynamic creation of space through form and color rather than perspective.

Like him, she now sticks to geometry and flat areas of color to emphasize its relation to a picture plane, all the while thrusting viewers into insane spaces.

Initially, Sanín created works using a gestural abstract style, like contemporaries Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, and Joan Mitchell, but found her true voice in the geometry of hard - edge, symmetrical compositions filled with flat planes of color.

My work is figuration that flirts with abstraction; I've reduced the figures down to a flat plane of color, but they still register as a face or a hand.

Often associated with Abstract Expressionism, color field painting is characterized by flat areas of color spread across the picture plane.

I set up these areas of flat color that become shapes that interlock and break apart as they move backward or forward in relation to the picture plane.

Hume favors bold shapes, flat planes of color, high gloss paint, and reflective surfaces.

His use of flat planes of color arranged in rows that relate to one another horizontally, vertically and diagonally suggests the synesthetic blending of the senses — «hearing» color, «seeing» sound — and evokes the painterly experiments of the synchromists from a century ago.

Oscillating between two separate works, Thomas's painted homage to Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech of Black female empowerment, «Ain't I a Woman,» and a religious altarpiece, Diptych presents the sexy, Black female body sculpted out of flat planes of primary colors in two dimensions on the left (a gesture reminiscent of the painterly techniques of her idols Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden), and in a televised two dimensions on the right.

Sprecher positions flat triangular planes of color, a jumbo - sized Tangram puzzle, over a roiling backdrop in Parachute, then, like a final snub to the powerfully complimentary yellow and violet, wraps the whole thing in two wide bands of translucent grey.

In the late 1950s, Stella was one of the first painters to reign the dynamism of Abstract Expressionism into angular compositions and flat planes of color.

Instead of flat planes, however, each plane of color is comprised of compacted small strokes of various colors weighted to a particular hue, like the fire - like brushstrokes in Pissarro's late paintings, or the compacted myriad of little strokes in pre-Renaissance tempera panels.

Drawing on inspirations ranging from Buddhism and American modernist painting to psychedelia and Amy Winehouse, Brooklyn - based painter Chris Martin (born 1954) «lets the paintings make themselves,» with often generously scaled canvases characterized by flat yet textured planes of bright, saturated color, frequently incorporating found materials and highly personal paper ephemera.

Inspired by European modernism and closely related to Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting is a style of abstract painting characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid color spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture pColor Field painting is a style of abstract painting characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid color spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture pcolor spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane.

DeFeo often applied paint to canvas in thick layers, while Lawrence and Davis created flat planes of vivid color.

In his abstract paintings from the 1960s, single - colored geometric shapes pulse rhythmically across their flat ground planes, or torque the surface of the canvas.

Jefferson, curiously, went in another direction, exploring flatter planes of color.

For example, in a painting on paper from c. 1946 - 1949 inscribed and gifted to Anni Albers, Asawa uses subtle modifications in color and form to create a sense of depth and motion within the otherwise flat picture plane.

And I think there is a tremendous distinction between this kind of internalized abstraction and what Greenberg called color field painting, which is nothing but color design on a flat plane.

Many of Cain's strokes, drips, and flat planes of paint recall movements past — largely male - dominated genres — while her specific colors, pleasurable and redolent of popular culture, music, fashion, and perceived grounds of femininity, invoke an artist navigating her lived world.

... — nothing fussy, nothing wasted — was the prevailing style for many of the most exciting gallery shows, whether Maggie Lee and her charming childhood - channeling dioramas in fish tanks at Real Fine Arts, or Theodore Sefcik and his bewitching animations in the basement of 247365, which combine the aesthetics of early computer games and early color video art, or Annie Pearlman and her sui generis paintings at White Columns, which feature shifting planes of flat color and vaguely nightmarish cityscapes — really odd, really wonderful.

In Martinez» works, flat planes of pastels collide in deftly constructed clusters of detailed angles jutting out, encompassing different spectrums of the color wheel.

After some 30 years painting thick black lines and flat planes of color («I called it Cloisonism, which was a 19th century practice which Van Gogh was involved with for a time») the artist considered himself stuck.

Flat geometric planes of dissonant, wild colors interlock with one another.

That language consists of flat areas of varying colors and sizes; the interruptions of paint drips, stains and abrasions; moments where the stripes transmute into volumetric planes and forms; and the addition of trompe l'oeil supports and prosthetics to prop up or balance the whole.

Cézanne's solid planes of color insist on the surface of the painting as a flat field against which the painter acts.

«Lit,» Oil and Acrylic on 2 Panels, 48 x 61 Inches Susan Sharp is an outstanding abstract painter of biomorphic and linear forms, flat planes, vivid color and highly glossy surfac...

Other works include Christoph Büchel's video projection originally created for the Sydney Biennale in 2008, showing rehearsals of a punk song performed by senior ladies; African - American artist Kara Walker's installation Darkytown Rebellion, a theater of silhouette and colors dealing with race, gender, and identity; 2000 Turner Prize winner Wolfgang Tillmans» work Rachel Auburn & son and Bulgarian artist Nedko Solakov's large - scale installation The Truth (The Earth is Plane, The World is Flat).

Artists representing various movements and geographical backgrounds are all there: Cubist, Dada, and Russian avant - garde artists of the 1910s and 1920s, with their images of flat, intersecting planes and floating shapes; artists associated with Minimalism, Op art, and hard - edge abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s, whose primary interest lay in the investigation of reductive form and color; and contemporary artists who continue to exploit the infinite potential of simple geometries.

Aware of predecessors such as Karl Benjamin, and John McLaughlin, and their interest in landscape and the environment, the artist moves hard edge towards a more Pop language; flat planes of intense color merging and moving against another, shifting stratas of atmosphere and light echo the intersections of urban culture and nature.

By exploring the relationship between the flat plane of a canvas and the basics elements of artwork and sculpture — color, shape and composition — Frank Stella created his Black Paintings.

elementary form and color on the stage (demonstration): blue line rising slowly — red flat traversing — yellow plane approaching rapidly from background.

Encapsulating his distinctive «push and pull» technique of implying space while asserting the primacy of the flat canvas, Auxerre demonstrates the robust way in which Hofmann's paintings dramatize the dynamic oscillation between volumes and voids on the one hand and two - dimensional color planes on the other.

Due to the design of the base, the rear of the opposite painting is seen behind the person, where flat planes of colored paint produce a loosely articulated second figure.

For instance, he paints the corners of flat planes folded over like a dog - eared page to reveal a surface of a different color on the illusionary verso.