Playing with ideas of scale, color, and form, Close has become famous for his rigorous, gridded application
of individual color squares, which, although abstract up close, form unified, highly realistic images from afar.
While this need for stability is reflected in the composition of the palette, the inherent
versatility of the individual colors allows for experimentation with new looks and color combinations.»
Like a composer writing imaginative variations on a single melodic theme, Albers created countless color combinations in which the value and effect
of individual colors change markedly from work to work.
His sweeping broad
strokes of individual color are revealed, and one realizes that Pentak leans far more toward abstraction than originally perceived.
This world is then translated into the tactile reality of painting through a cumulative process similar to that of a dot matrix printer, with small strokes or bands painted in a regulated and mechanical fashion, forming gradients through minute
striations of individual colors.
Hirst's colored spots work collectively and simultaneously to set the eye in motion, becoming not an
appreciation of individual colors as one might expect but rather an experience of the all - over.
Her ongoing, hauntingly beautiful «Aura Series» are photo portraits of ordinary people from a variety of cultural and social strata and are based on Marcel Duchamp's belief in a sitter's «Aura», a range
of individual color fields radiating from a subject's body.
By PETER PLAGENS «Look at the painting in terms
of individual colors,» said the Washington painter of vertical stripes, Gene Davis (1920 - 1985).