Sentences with phrase «great efflorescence»

In what he calls «this last great efflorescence,» de Kooning had simplified his palette with red, yellow and blue dominating, and orange, green and violet used as occasional counterpoints.

Although that claim may sound far - fetched (even to those who neither celebrate nor bemoan the medium's purported demise), I'd hazard that the past decade has witnessed the greatest efflorescence of painting since the mid-1980s, when the battles engulfing it were at their bloodiest and the stakes seemed accordingly high.