Sentences with phrase «muted planes of color»

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In contrast to this background of smooth planes in muted colors, giant screens occasionally lower from the ceilings to show scenes of catastrophe in high enough definition that they seem to Jeffrey «immediate and real, a woman sitting life - sized on a lopsided chair in a house collapsed in a mudslide.»

5 x 24 inches, the largely black paintings slow you down until your eyes adjust to the indirect light (signaled by small concentrations of muted colors) in the otherwise darkened room (interlocking black planes).

These eventually gave way to sculptures in which papier - ma ̂ché aggregates of undulating curves, protruding appendages, and architectural planes are delicately wrought and then speckled like quails» eggs or awash with odd colors that are sometimes muted, sometimes psychedelic.