His use
of flat planes of color arranged in rows that relate to one another horizontally, vertically and diagonally suggests the synesthetic blending of the senses — «hearing» color, «seeing» sound — and evokes the painterly experiments of the synchromists from a century ago.
Not exact matches
The pastel -
colored world
of Zubrowka is captured with all the idiosyncrasy and precision Anderson is known for: written notes, books and objects are shot straight on with loving detail,
flat -
planed shots center characters in the middle
of the frame, and hand - crafted miniatures depict many
of the film's more fantastical settings and vehicles.
Highway overpasses, empty offices, cityscapes, and even public figures» faces are reduced into
planes of flat color, which the artist carefully paints in taped - off portions, creating crisp images that sit somewhere between the handmade art
of paintings, cartoon - like animation, and mass - produced perfection.
Color Field is characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid color spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture p
Color Field is characterized primarily by large fields
of flat, solid
color spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture p
color spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas
of unbroken surface and a
flat picture
plane.
Diebenkorn's practice is unique in that he deftly marries the
flat color and
planes of brushwork so lauded by the Abstract Expressionists with representational subjects that are influenced by some
of Matisse's visual tropes and his dynamic creation
of space through form and
color rather than perspective.
Like him, she now sticks to geometry and
flat areas
of color to emphasize its relation to a picture
plane, all the while thrusting viewers into insane spaces.
Initially, Sanín created works using a gestural abstract style, like contemporaries Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, and Joan Mitchell, but found her true voice in the geometry
of hard - edge, symmetrical compositions filled with
flat planes of color.
My work is figuration that flirts with abstraction; I've reduced the figures down to a
flat plane of color, but they still register as a face or a hand.
Often associated with Abstract Expressionism,
color field painting is characterized by
flat areas
of color spread across the picture
plane.
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.
Hume favors bold shapes,
flat planes of color, high gloss paint, and reflective surfaces.
Oscillating between two separate works, Thomas's painted homage to Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech
of Black female empowerment, «Ain't I a Woman,» and a religious altarpiece, Diptych presents the sexy, Black female body sculpted out
of flat planes of primary
colors in two dimensions on the left (a gesture reminiscent
of the painterly techniques
of her idols Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden), and in a televised two dimensions on the right.
Sprecher positions
flat triangular
planes of color, a jumbo - sized Tangram puzzle, over a roiling backdrop in Parachute, then, like a final snub to the powerfully complimentary yellow and violet, wraps the whole thing in two wide bands
of translucent grey.
In the late 1950s, Stella was one
of the first painters to reign the dynamism
of Abstract Expressionism into angular compositions and
flat planes of color.
This is a well spiked with a few big names and themes: the
color theory
of Josef Albers, the concentric lines
of early Frank Stella, and the irregular shapes and
flat color planes of Ellsworth Kelly.
Instead
of flat planes, however, each
plane of color is comprised
of compacted small strokes
of various
colors weighted to a particular hue, like the fire - like brushstrokes in Pissarro's late paintings, or the compacted myriad
of little strokes in pre-Renaissance tempera panels.
Drawing on inspirations ranging from Buddhism and American modernist painting to psychedelia and Amy Winehouse, Brooklyn - based painter Chris Martin (born 1954) «lets the paintings make themselves,» with often generously scaled canvases characterized by
flat yet textured
planes of bright, saturated
color, frequently incorporating found materials and highly personal paper ephemera.
Inspired by European modernism and closely related to Abstract Expressionism,
Color Field painting is a style of abstract painting characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid color spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture p
Color Field painting is a style
of abstract painting characterized primarily by large fields
of flat, solid
color spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture p
color spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas
of unbroken surface and a
flat picture
plane.
DeFeo often applied paint to canvas in thick layers, while Lawrence and Davis created
flat planes of vivid
color.
In his abstract paintings from the 1960s, single -
colored geometric shapes pulse rhythmically across their
flat ground
planes, or torque the surface
of the canvas.
Jefferson, curiously, went in another direction, exploring
flatter planes of color.
For example, in a painting on paper from c. 1946 - 1949 inscribed and gifted to Anni Albers, Asawa uses subtle modifications in
color and form to create a sense
of depth and motion within the otherwise
flat picture
plane.
And I think there is a tremendous distinction between this kind
of internalized abstraction and what Greenberg called
color field painting, which is nothing but
color design on a
flat plane.
Many
of Cain's strokes, drips, and
flat planes of paint recall movements past — largely male - dominated genres — while her specific
colors, pleasurable and redolent
of popular culture, music, fashion, and perceived grounds
of femininity, invoke an artist navigating her lived world.
... — nothing fussy, nothing wasted — was the prevailing style for many
of the most exciting gallery shows, whether Maggie Lee and her charming childhood - channeling dioramas in fish tanks at Real Fine Arts, or Theodore Sefcik and his bewitching animations in the basement
of 247365, which combine the aesthetics
of early computer games and early
color video art, or Annie Pearlman and her sui generis paintings at White Columns, which feature shifting
planes of flat color and vaguely nightmarish cityscapes — really odd, really wonderful.
In Martinez» works,
flat planes of pastels collide in deftly constructed clusters
of detailed angles jutting out, encompassing different spectrums
of the
color wheel.
After some 30 years painting thick black lines and
flat planes of color («I called it Cloisonism, which was a 19th century practice which Van Gogh was involved with for a time») the artist considered himself stuck.
Flat geometric
planes of dissonant, wild
colors interlock with one another.
That language consists
of flat areas
of varying
colors and sizes; the interruptions
of paint drips, stains and abrasions; moments where the stripes transmute into volumetric
planes and forms; and the addition
of trompe l'oeil supports and prosthetics to prop up or balance the whole.
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.
Cézanne's solid
planes of color insist on the surface
of the painting as a
flat field against which the painter acts.
«Lit,» Oil and Acrylic on 2 Panels, 48 x 61 Inches Susan Sharp is an outstanding abstract painter
of biomorphic and linear forms,
flat planes, vivid
color and highly glossy surfac...
Other works include Christoph Büchel's video projection originally created for the Sydney Biennale in 2008, showing rehearsals
of a punk song performed by senior ladies; African - American artist Kara Walker's installation Darkytown Rebellion, a theater
of silhouette and
colors dealing with race, gender, and identity; 2000 Turner Prize winner Wolfgang Tillmans» work Rachel Auburn & son and Bulgarian artist Nedko Solakov's large - scale installation The Truth (The Earth is
Plane, The World is
Flat).
Artists representing various movements and geographical backgrounds are all there: Cubist, Dada, and Russian avant - garde artists
of the 1910s and 1920s, with their images
of flat, intersecting
planes and floating shapes; artists associated with Minimalism, Op art, and hard - edge abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s, whose primary interest lay in the investigation
of reductive form and
color; and contemporary artists who continue to exploit the infinite potential
of simple geometries.
Aware
of predecessors such as Karl Benjamin, and John McLaughlin, and their interest in landscape and the environment, the artist moves hard edge towards a more Pop language;
flat planes of intense
color merging and moving against another, shifting stratas
of atmosphere and light echo the intersections
of urban culture and nature.
By exploring the relationship between the
flat plane of a canvas and the basics elements
of artwork and sculpture —
color, shape and composition — Frank Stella created his Black Paintings.
Encapsulating his distinctive «push and pull» technique
of implying space while asserting the primacy
of the
flat canvas, Auxerre demonstrates the robust way in which Hofmann's paintings dramatize the dynamic oscillation between volumes and voids on the one hand and two - dimensional
color planes on the other.
Due to the design
of the base, the rear
of the opposite painting is seen behind the person, where
flat planes of colored paint produce a loosely articulated second figure.
For instance, he paints the corners
of flat planes folded over like a dog - eared page to reveal a surface
of a different
color on the illusionary verso.