Not exact matches
The illustrations echo traditional textile art
forms: bright,
flat colors with intricate
outlined details adding texture to the waves of the river Ganges and the tails of the flying fish that leap out of it.
In figurative paintings brimming with crisp,
flat forms and bold
outlines (evoking sign painting as well as the works of John Wesley), Keogh portrays headless female bodies that have been bisected at the waist, an empty suit of armor, and flowery vines that weave in and out of swords.
Bolotowsky was evidently also inspired by Picasso's Studio of 1927 — 28 (on view at the Museum of Modern Art from 1935 onward), with its heavy black
outlines and its geometric
forms lying
flat within the picture plane.
The artist was known for black -
outlined abstract
forms on
flat grounds of hot color, sort of like Lichtenstein if the puckish Pop genius had gone abstract and rather nasty.
His
flat, heavily -
outlined clear
forms, almost colorbook - like, fit into the Pop aesthetic, but his subjects lacked the mass - produced or consumer society references of Warhol or Lichtenstein.
The abstracted human shape of
Flat man / J» en ai assez je dis oui (2015), is
formed by the
outline of a photographic emulsion of three men posed as one.