Kohler writes: «The warmth in Davidson's paintings is both related to the strange and
inventive forms and color ideas they contain and to subtle decisions such as repainting by hand edges that were initially made using tape.
Not exact matches
John Hoyland (b. 1934, Sheffiled, United Kingdom; d. 2011) was one of Britain's leading abstract painters, renowned for his bold use of
color and inventive forms.
The primary clinch of this achievement is Stockholder's sensibility, which permeates all of the chosen works
and follows a set of necessary prescriptions: the
form must in some way be related to the readymade; the formal palette of the work must be intentional (either works are steadfastly the natural
color of the material, or the artists» chosen
colors directly relate to the concept of the piece);
and above all the approach must be
inventive, but avoid novelty.
Reduced to simplified geometric
forms and colors inspired by their namesake, these painted wood works created just before his death are a poignant testament to an
inventive and dedicated artist who, despite little recognition from critics or the public, strove to perfect his art until the end.
Renowned for his
inventive interplay of line, dot,
and color, Roy Lichtenstein (1923 — 1997) shaped a new
form of fine art.
★ Ron Nagle: «Five O'Clock Shadow» (through Oct. 24) This large
and stunning exhibition of the bonsai - size sculptures of Mr. Nagle — whose chief medium is glazed clay — shows off his
inventive way of contrasting
colors,
forms and textures in ways both seductive
and slightly that evoke food, furniture, body parts, spindly succulents
and oozing drips of blood, chocolate, motor oil or just glaze.
Brown's paintings deliver biting commentary on the Gulf War, the HIV / AIDS pandemic,
and the Savings & Loan industry collapse
and bailout through
inventive use of luminous
color, silhouetted figures, stylized natural
forms,
and dramatic shifts of scale
and perspective.
Warping, twisting,
and knotting her constructed canvases, she transformed painting's conventions with her vivid
colors, boldly
inventive forms,
and shaped, constructed, multi-paneled canvases.