Sentences with phrase «key color planes»

The low - key color planes play off one another in a series of oppositions that ultimately achieve a resolution.

Not exact matches

She turns up the retinal volume again and again in the grounds of her paintings — vast seas of cerulean blue edged by crisp white lines, or enveloping acts of domestic violence; equally riveting cadmium reds, oranges, and crimsons saturating the picture plane beneath angry gorillas, dancing Chubby Checkers, and kissing lovers; Day - Glo yellows that push up against sharp blacks as «bad guys» in black suits point guns and walk up and down staircases — and employs unusual compositional strategies to draw our attention to these expanses of high - key color.

A leading theoretician of formalist doctrine, Greenberg maintained that the key impulse of Modernism was to strip art to essentials - in the case of paintings, to shapes and colors that affirmed «the flatness of the picture plane.»