Here the boldly colored backgrounds and mystical calligraphy surrounding his menagerie of animal - headed people and personified rag dolls in the works seen at the 2000 Whitney Biennial were replaced with
muted color fields lightly penciled with patterns suggestive of DNA helices and chemical or mechanical diagrams.
Black Adder (from V Series)(1968) and Rayy Sketch (1970) are classic Stella with their distinct, vibrant - but -
muted color fields, bold symmetry, and absence of distinct subject reference.
Not exact matches
In the 1970s, Tworkov redefined his style again, creating ever more refined themes where rhythmic brushwork played against
fields of
muted color.
Halkin's most recent paintings share with his earliest work a fascination with hieroglyph - like shapes and mottled
fields of
muted color, though the palette is overall less subdued and the forms less abstract.
In some paintings, the clarity of the grid becomes
muted by an all over
color field.
Together, though, they strike up a fun dialogue: the height of Bowling's paintings, together with the relative dignity of
color field painting, lends them a kind of
mute imperiousness next to the playful skittering of Berg's wheely - paintings.
Jake Berthot and David Jeffrey create evocative
fields of
muted color and spare form.
To create these, Boyce first applied beige primer to perforated steel panels, then layered on pale washes in rose, aqua, or yellow —
colors selected from the German RAL system — yielding streaked and
muted pastel
fields.
Muted dark
colors cluster along the edges of «Miller 22» and filaments of line swing the eye outward from the center of periphery of its mottled pale ocher
field.
The green of the bridge and yellow of the
field in the background are more
muted colors than those of other works, but Ghenie's method of dripping and scraping and his overlay of light, squiggly gray lines resembling streaks of rain brings an ominous mood to the work» (K. Osborne - Bartucca, «Adrian Ghenie,» Artillery, June 30, 2015, http://artillerymag.com/adrian-ghenie/ [accessed October 10, 2016]-RRB-.
Was it the somber green - on - green landscape that turned them inward — or the misty quality of the light, the way it «
mutes and sours» the
color field, as William Cumming puts it?
The monochromatic bands of
muted color that bound the central
field of calligraphic imagery in Marden's latest paintings and drawings are a distinctly new element in his work.