The works play with
elements of flat colour, depth and surface, revealing the process of painting as a series of strategies or components within the visual puzzle of the whole.
According to his entry in Benezit, Schuster's paintings «are very structured, built on geometrical forms painted in
areas of flat colour which are nevertheless reminiscent of landscapes and architectural views.
The spatial relationships that exist between these abstracted forms are exploited by the artist through her idiosyncratic use of bold
planes of flat colour.
Bomberg's The Mud Bath (1914, Tate Modern, London) is a typical example of the group's style, with lots of straight lines,
blocks of flat colour which gives a feeling of movement and dynamism.
Then the abstract piece is a very structural motif, almost mathematical, that is made up of a grid overlaid with layers
of flat colour in block like shapes and is playing off the structure and colour in the other small painting.
These included artists John McLaughlin, Lorser Feitelson and Karl Benjamin, who created imagery featuring areas
of flat colour with sharp, geometric borders.
He works from photographs and drawings, creating collage - like compositions, and then experiments with different ways of drawing out the aspects that interest him — whether highlighting the surface detail or distant object, or by painting a version of the image as a blocked - out
negative of flat colour.
Influenced by automatic drawing that he picked up from European surrealism and pushing boundaries withlarge
fields of flat colour.
Among the artists represented were Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, and Jules Olitski, all of whom created colour - field paintings — i.e., large - scale canvases with a minimum of surface details that are dominated by
expanses of flat colour.
In true Douaihy form, the
use of these flat colours in the present work imparts a sense of two - dimensionality to the paintings, yet the verticality suggests depth.
In his mature work, trompe - l'oeil and photo - realism co-existed happily alongside simple graphic outlines, emboldened
planes of flat colour and perspectival complexity.
With their bold
blocks of flat colour (with a Brazilian themed palette, of course) and clean lines, these graphic posters capture the timeless architectural beauty of five of the arenas that have been the centre of attention for sports fans across the world.
Primarily working from life, he produces images in which line and form are expressed through carefully composed strokes and planes
of flat colour.
Areas
of flat colour were screenprinted at Kelpra.
These painters used large areas, or fields,
of flat colour and thin, diaphanous paint to achieve quiet, subtle, almost meditative effects.
Admittedly, the way Tate Modern currently displays its De Stijl paintings is not helpful — they are in a gallery called A View from Sao Paulo: Art and Society, which takes its cue from Latin American abstract art to shoehorn in abstractions that it claims have a social conscience hidden in intersecting lines and planes
of flat colour.
Simon Carter: Even someone like — I've just been down to see the Patrick Caulfield show at Tate Britain — in reproduction you just think they're big areas
of flat colour, but you get a physical sense off them standing in front of the painting.