The Tang fresco paintings of Dunhuang show a dynamic brush - line and the same fullness of form
in garish colours.
Hirst's contribution is instantly recognisable — he has «spin painted» his gun
in garish colours.
Then Bickerton's alter ego appears — the Blue Man: a lurid character painted
in garish colours that is all smiles as he cavorts around the island on a scooter.
Not exact matches
Some of which are on offer hark back to the long forgotten 80's styles with some particularly
garish colour schemes, yet despite this, something about them just simply works at the very least
in a retro way.
Endless fast cuts complete with whooshy sound effects, thumping techno bass lines, ugly on - screen graphics,
garish colour filters, and * cringe * a hero who talks directly to camera (Michael Caine is STILL the only actor to EVER get away with that...) Every tacky, irritating and superficial MTV affectation is on display here,
in an unbelievably lame attempt to make an american rip - off of a Guy Ritchie heist movie.
Some of the more
garish colours may have been dialled down a little from the source material, but this lends the picture a more film - like appearance
in the digital realm.
It is crenellated like a castle, and painted
in a
garish but strangely comforting and childlike shade of purple, the way a child might want to decorate it
in a
colouring book.
These paintings show variations on a semi-abstract portrait, often overlaid with bones and other masks that combined with
garish colours, reflect the moral stance against seduction and the «feminine impulse»
in Wagner's Parsifal.
The vulgar sense of
colour in John Chamberlain's crushed metal Ravyredd (1962) reinforced Sillman's own
garish palette, while the palimpsest - like effect of a ghostly late work by Willem de Kooning, Untitled XXII (1982), also echoed her process.
The
colours and symbolism range from the subtle and serious as found
in church art, all the way to the outlandish and
garish, as can be seen
in Belgium's carnival and theatre traditions, something Jan Fabre is close to thanks to his career as stage director.
An important representative of the Expressionist movement, and one of the most stylishly colourful of 20th century painters, Henri - Charles Manguin was a member of the Fauvism movement that sprang to prominence
in 1905, after the art critic Louis Vauxcelles (1870 - 1943) christened them «Fauves» (wild beasts) for their
garish use of
colour at the 1905 Salon d'Automne.
Primitive, naive forms were also popular, outlined
in black and filled
in with
garish, gaudy
colours.
If you use
colour it should be discreet rather than
garish, and readable if your CV is printed
in black and white.