Sentences with phrase «glowing fields of paint»

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And the earliest work in the exhibition, Vija Celmins's 1964 painting Heater, sets the glowing red center of an electric space heater amid a field of deep grays — reminding us of the constant, ever - shifting dialogue between hot and cool, color and shadow.

The green field in Baseball is manicured down to abstraction, the crowd a sea of tiny dots, as though painted by an extremely diligent child; the glowing depiction of sports is arresting — even off - putting — in a New York gallery.

Mark Rothko (1903 - 1970) was an American Abstract Expressionist painter known primarily for his paintings of glowing pulsating fields of unbroken color.

He shows his range in these later works gleefully inventing and exploiting new spaces in the picture plane: 1951's Every Atom Glows: Electrons in Luminous Vibration is a delicate black - and - white oil painting, while his Alabama II, 1969, is a strong protest work — a rectangular field of red in which a triangular wedge evoking bodies marching or a megaphone's amplified language emerges in glossier red on the painting's surface.

There's a glow as if the painting is imbued with some energy field, something primordial that is responsive to my obsession — the obsession of the Hungry Ghost.»

The works create luminous visual fields that are difficult to take in all at once and that seem to shimmer, blink, and glow in an indeterminate space between the viewer and the actual surface of the painting.

The light shining in from being near the river glows into the space activating the color fields vibrating in the paintings, DoN thought about how this is the way a true artist lives, in a bright airy studio right in the hub of the lively contemporary arts scene in Old City with the energy and time to think big.

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.»

She was just twenty - three when she poured puddles of paint, in palely glowing colors, onto a cotton canvas to produce «Mountains and Sea» (1952), which is the Rosetta stone of color - field (it's in the National Gallery of Art, in Washington), despite the fact that it bears drawn lines and a redolence of landscape.