Sentences with phrase «horizontal planes of color»

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The final wall is devoted to pieces from Ippolito's «Regatta Series» (1984 - 89) in which the watery color planes suggest abstract but recognizable elements like pennants, sails and boats, and black wave forms blend into blue ground in «Land's End» (1986), with the full blast of wind on sails being felt in the horizontal diptych «Windward» (1987).

The sense of rhythm between horizontals and verticals recalls that of Mondrian, and the relationship between planes of simplified color and line, that of Frank Stella.

For instance, one long horizontal painting uses almost unscathed planes of chalky color, their borders meandering but determined, like the lines of a watershed.

Odili Donald Odita's horizontal planes of graphic color and works by Sanford Biggers and Radcliffe Bailey, anchor the final gallery.

Gottlieb first used this vast, horizontal format in 1960 allowing his minimal, graphic language to stretch across the picture plane; he explains, «I eliminated almost everything from my painting except a few colors and perhaps two or three shapes, I feel a necessity for making the particular colors that I use, or the particular shapes, carry the burden of everything that I want to express, and all has to be concentrated within these few elements.»