Sentences with phrase «flat colour fields»

This technique was central to Bacon's ability to create flat colour fields rather than a more painterly, brushstroke - laden canvas.

Not exact matches

Is it being surrounded by brightly coloured plastic and metal play equipment, or are you somewhere else, such as lying flat in a field of sweet - smelling summer grass, looking up at the clouds?

In addition to the instrument dials under the dome - shaped cowl behind the steering wheel and a central LCD colour display integrated between them, the MMI also supplies information via its swivelling flat screen, well positioned within the driver's field of vision in the upper section of the centre console.

Flat opaque fields with frayed edges mingle with translucent layered patches of colour.

By simplifying images into shapes, flat fields of colour and areas of mark making, an image is pushed towards the unrecognizable.

Beginning in the 1950s and 1960s, several Abstract Expressionist / color field artists (notably: Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Adolph Gottlieb, Theodoros Stamos, Sam Francis, Ludwig Sander, Clyfford Still, Jules Olitski, and others) explored motifs that seemed to imply monochrome, employing broad, flat fields of colour in large scale pictures which proved highly influential to newer styles, such as Post-Painterly Abstraction, Lyrical Abstraction, and Minimalism.

Pioneered by Clyfford Still (1904 - 80), Barnett Newman (1905 - 70) and Mark Rothko (1903 - 70), this abstract art was characterised by large fields of flat, solid colour, which enveloped the spectator when seen at close quarters.

The emergence of Colour Field effectively divided Abstract Expressionist painting into two styles -(1) gestural and full of contrast and action; (2) smooth, flat, and relatively incident - free with large fields of rich cColour Field effectively divided Abstract Expressionist painting into two styles -(1) gestural and full of contrast and action; (2) smooth, flat, and relatively incident - free with large fields of rich colourcolour.

Influenced by automatic drawing that he picked up from European surrealism and pushing boundaries withlarge fields of flat colour.

These painters used large areas, or fields, of flat colour and thin, diaphanous paint to achieve quiet, subtle, almost meditative effects.

The artist Kenneth Noland, who was a close friend, saw Annesley's sculptures as the extension of colour field painting: as painting got flatter, Annesley saw the potential of sculpture to take colour to another dimension.

Mark Rothko, Clyfford Stills, Barnett Newman) were experimenting with the use of flat areas or fields of colour to induce contemplation in the viewer - even to a pitch of mystic intensity.

In particular he was a fan of the all - over action - painting style of Jackson Pollock, and the flat surfaces of the Colour Field Painting movement, embodied by Mark Rothko and others.

The overall brushwork and vertical striations disappeared and the figures become concentrated sculptural forms isolated against flat fields of colour.