«Although Rothko's approach to color and subject,» Gage wrote, «has something in common with, for example, Barnett Newman's, perhaps his closest affinities among contemporary artists were with the work of Ad Reinhardt, whose adoption of near - monochromatic color groupings form the late 1940s and exclusive concentration
on symmetrical composition from around 1950 have clear parallels in Rothko's work.
Not exact matches
The
compositions, as you know from «Rushmore,» «The Royal Tennenbaums» and so
on, are generally balanced, stable and
symmetrical, as if viewed through a proscenium.
The Los Angeles artists emphasized a unified whole by creating paintings of centered, though not always
symmetrical,
composition of forms connected
on a flat surface.
Reacting against the dominant Abstract Expressionist tendencies of the time, he focused exclusively
on the control he found in
symmetrical and linear
compositions and the materiality of the canvas.