In later works he developed subtle colour combinations by joining together
panels of a single colour in either vertical or horizontal formats.
These works were duly followed by his series of Black Paintings, another
set of single colour works but this time incorporating pieces of newspaper into the painting.
Simon Callery & Torgny Wilcke @ Fold gallery It's a great idea to take a simple
theme of a single colour and take it in two different directions by two artists who complement one another so well in this sculptural installation.
Painters have often used
variations of a single colour as underpainting before applying opaque body - colour or layers of more or less translucent glazes.
His geometric forms are austere and simple; the
horizontals of single colour would cover the entire surface of the painting but for the insistent and recurrent introduction of a white square.
That said, while these rainbow explosions of pixelated mosaics are pictorially enticing, I was even more mesmerized by the lively
radiance of a single colour in Marianne Mispelaëre's show «Echolalia» at Martine Aboucaya.
An example is Open No. 17: In Ultramarine with Charcoal Line (1968), which consists of one
area of a single colour, onto which he has drawn a rectangle in charcoal.
The heightened or dreamlike realism that Andrews achieved after 1970 was partly the result of his painting with a spray gun and water - based acrylic paint, allowing him to cover the canvas with large
expanses of a single colour, from airy and atmospheric to intense and saturated.
In particular, the effect of the decision seems to be that colour marks comprising colour combinations are harder to register than
those of single colours.