Sentences with phrase «of flat color»

In the 1970s, his work took a new direction when he began making a series of paintings inspired by architectural form, which combined thin wooden frames with multiple planes of flat color.

The result is an adaptation of three - dimensional scenes to sharp - edged silhouettes and clearly defined patterns of flat color.

I am a fan of the flattering color - block in the black & white.

A term originating in the late 1950s for abstract paintings characterized by sharply defined geometric areas of flat colors conveying little or no depth, such as works by Ellsworth Kelly, Kenneth Noland, Ad Reinhardt, and Barnett Newman.

Experiencing Abts» work is markedly non-sensual: her smooth, nearly brushless paint handling and use of flat color throughout each panel seems downright stingy.

In Sunset Nude with Pink and Yellow Tulips, in Sunset Nude # 3, which is dominated by the juxtaposition of swathes of flat color.

Ian Hughes» paintings probe an artistic vein in which naturalistic forms shape - shift on top of a flat color - space.

Unlike Pollock's dance of paint - slinging, Newman's method of segmenting canvases into vertical bands of flat color suggests nothing remotely cinematic.

He often brings multiple styles into a single painting: shapes pulled from Ellsworth Kelly's hard - edged abstraction serve as canvases - within - a-canvas for more amorphous objects, which sit on backgrounds of flat color.

Not every breast cancer patient will lose her hair, but anyone would appreciate a cozy knit hat like this cashmere beanie, available in a variety of flattering colors.

With a wide range of flattering colors in our softest and silkiest fabric, it's hard to choose just one.

Sometimes we get stuck in color ruts — ahem, black, grey, cream (boring)-- and forget that there's a whole array of flattering colors.

Weber taught him about Cubism and non-representational painting; Gorky taught him about Surrealism, the imagination, and mythic imagery; and Milton Avery, with whom he was good friends for many years, taught him about using thin layers of flat color to create depth through color relationships.

The artist's three sitters — Sandra, Fran, and Keri (all black women)-- strut, smile, and seduce against a fractured setting of trompe l'oeil wood paneling, bold floral and animal prints, and blocks of flat color.

His purist distillations of flat color and simple geometric shapes are refreshingly straightforward; at times dynamically Neoplastic, Constructivist or Suprematist, especially when seen among the Minimalism with which his art is often aligned.

Inspired by the work of Matisse and Conrad Marca - Relli, he experimented with collage, cutting and gluing papers to represent figures and landscapes, adopting a language of flat color and simplified drawing.

Sparks employs reconstructed sculpture and cut and sewn digital paintings that fracture our perception of space with their shapes of flat color and conscious reproduction of illusion.

What marks out Flags 1 is its avoidance of flat color, so typical of screenprinting and exemplified by Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans.

Seeing the great Shchukin Matisses triggered another burst of energy in Diebenkorn, evident here in figurative paintings that combine large expanses of flat color with passages of serpentine foliage and flowers.

The seminal Open paintings consisted of flat color field backgrounds on top of which Motherwell drew three charcoal lines, usually in the shape of an open «U.» These paintings often referenced elements that Motherwell saw in his natural surroundings, such as a door or window.

These hybrid images of flat color planes and illusory depth, executed in acrylic, spray paint and computer programs like Photoshop and Illustrator, have a pronounced retinal effect Elrod gets by putting sharp geometric shapes out of focus.

David Bourdon remarked in his review of the Leo Castelli show that the planar zones of flat color appear like «cut - out gouaches by Matisse set adrift on Monet's lily pond» (David Bourdon, Warhol, New York, 1989, p. 191).

Hence those bursts of divine space into at least a schematically human space in Sienese painting, such as the circular bands of flat color surrounding an Edenic disk in Giovanni di Paolo's The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise (1445).

In the Weekend edition of Hyperallergic, John Yau wrote that in «her paintings from the 1960s, Drexler's coloring book aesthetics led her to apply areas of flat color, which evoked the paintings of Barnett Newman as well as the film posters of Saul Bass.»

Stone frequently collaborated and exchanged ideas with other members of the Independents — including B.J.O. Nordfeldt, John Nevin, Lloyd «Bill» Ney, and Elsie Driggs — but his work from the mid-1930s and 1940s retains a distinctive style that demonstrates a mastery of the modernist lessons he learned in Europe and an innovative use of flat color to suggest three dimensional space.

Echo Eggebrecht's oil - on - panel works delightfully juxtapose folky charm, exquisite decorative detail, and lush patterns with broad swaths of flat color.

Some, like Matisse, favored larger areas of flat color, some, like de Vlaminck, used short strokes of thick paint.

I set up these areas of flat color that become shapes that interlock and break apart as they move backward or forward in relation to the picture plane.

Stone frequently collaborated and exchanged ideas with other members of the Independents, but his work from the mid-1930s and 1940s retains a distinctive style that demonstrates a mastery of the modernist lessons he learned in Europe, while asserting an innovative use of flat color to suggest three dimensional space.

However, his rejection of the expressive brushwork employed by other abstract expressionists such as Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko, and his use of hard - edged areas of flat color, can be seen as a precursor to post painterly abstraction and the minimalist works of artists such as Frank Stella.

Although Stone frequently collaborated and exchanged ideas with other members of the Independents, his work from the mid-1930s and 1940s retains a distinctive style that demonstrates a mastery of the modernist lessons he learned in Europe, while asserting an innovative use of flat color to suggest three dimensional space.

In her paintings from the 1960s, Drexler's coloring book aesthetics led her to apply areas of flat color, which evoked the paintings of Barnett Newman as well as the film posters of Saul Bass.

I also picked out versions of Alexander Calder's play of red and yellow and Fernand Leger's swaths of flat color that cut across figures (inspired by a visit to Times Square where he was astonished to see his companions bathed in blue light, then red, then yellow under the neon lights).

Carrie Moyer's vibrant paintings unabashedly embrace visual pleasure, juxtaposing luminous, watery veils of paint in bright hues, often mixed with glitter, with precisely outlined areas of flat color.

In each of these shapes, which consists of two areas of flat color, a rounded form (or semicircle) is on the left, with its outer edge defined by the painting's edge.

Color Field is about the tension created by overlapping and interacting areas of flat color.