Sentences with phrase «floating planes of color»

While her clumpy masses may be related to the floating planes of color explored by Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb, their assertively tough surfaces point toward the ideological materiality of Minimalism.

Second, moving around big pieces of painted paper for the mock - up of the elevator bank mosaic led Hofmann to the signature motif of his late work: little floating planes of color, squares and rectangles of pure color locked together across the surface or isolated on fields of murkier colors.

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Ippolito continued to open up the picture plane in his oil on linen 1980s works with the soft diffusions of color and suggestive forms of «Paesaggio» (1980), the floating irregular shapes of «One June Morning» (1988) in a blue / lavender mist, the opposing edges of shapes hanging on within the blue field of «Small Painting» (1982), and the floating orange - on - orange diffusions suspended in «Orange» (1982), all pieces which exemplify Ippolito's belief in «color as light.»

During this period his paintings often consisted of blocks and masses of gestural strokes and marks of color floating within the picture plane.

The first solo exhibition in 2011, Elusive Transparencies, was a survey of what the artist referred to as «see - through» paintings — overlapping planes of color that looked as though they were floating in space, conveying depth and perspective — that were very important to him and spanned nearly his entire career.

Using the fine point of a bamboo stick, Pwerle paints masses of minute, individual dots that float, cloud - like, on a colored ground, shifting and vibrating within an indeterminate spatial plane, to depict the Bush Plum Dreaming narrative.

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.

The stained surfaces create layered, non-hierarchical spaces where colors, shifting planes and chunks of paint float like fleeting thoughts.