Sentences with phrase «indeterminate color»

In Haze (2003), a work recently acquired for MCASD's collection through a grant from The Annenberg Foundation, Donovan assembled thousands and thousands of clear plastic drinking straws against the walls, turning a gallery into an undulating space of indeterminate color.

They are replaced by brush - tickled flat surfaces of indeterminate color — brussels sprouts green, vichyssoise beige — and a few straight horizontal lines.

Around 1970, while in the John St. studio, Frances began working on large horizontal abstract paintings that were involved with ideas of gravity, slow painting time, indeterminate color, and trying to create a complex painting space that appeared geometric, but alternately shifted into a deeper space.

Not exact matches

Through color alone — applied to suspended rectangles within abstract compositions — Rothko's work evokes strong emotions ranging from exuberance and awe to despair and anxiety, suggested by the hovering and indeterminate nature of his forms.»

Sometime in 1940 Rothko makes his last figurative painting, then experiments with Surrealism, and eventually does away entirely with any figural suggestion in his paintings, abstracting them further and paring them down to indeterminate shapes floating in fields of color - Multiforms as they were called by others - which were greatly influenced by Milton Avery's style of painting.

Navigating the exhibition becomes a means for reflecting on the many ways by which physical and emotional presence can be reached: color can be louder than scale, surface can be more immediate than form, the indeterminate can be more visible than the finite.

MORAGA - Mark Rothko's mature paintings - vaporous, lushly colored, roughly rectangular color fields floating in an indeterminate space - are some of the most familiar and popular works of mid-century abstraction.

All 12 are nonrepresentational, to be sure, with broad areas of meandering color and beautifully indeterminate line.

Both artists, extreme in their use of vivid colors, excel at creating paintings with a sense of play between defined and indeterminate forms, an ambivalence between figure and ground, and a resistance to interpretation.

Turning from the hard edges of his representational and geometric abstraction, Demarchelier uses curvilinear paint strokes in bold colors to show indeterminate puzzle pieces of reactive shapes moving in the dynamism of shifting systems, a technique that points to the role emotion plays in determining perception.

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.

It is the contrasting compositional format which slyly creates indeterminate spatial relationships in each work — what is foreground, what is surface, what color is it exactly, for the colors shift as one moves around the canvas, enhanced by his use of iridescent pigments.

When stared at, each thin vertical can also create an optical afterimage that renders the color of the next temporarily indeterminate.