The No paintings are square, symmetrical compositions of finely differentiated, spectrally exact complementary colors, arranged around a central square of neutral gray created by the complements» mix and equivalent to the color of
the overall painting field.
Not exact matches
Greenberg, art critic Michael Fried, and others have observed that the
overall feeling in Pollock's most famous works — his drip
paintings — read as vast
fields of built - up linear elements often reading as vast complexes of similar valued
paint skeins that read as all over
fields of color and drawing, and are related to the mural - sized late Monets that are constructed of many passages of close valued brushed and scumbled marks that also read as close valued
fields of color and drawing that Monet used in building his picture surfaces.
Halkin's most recent
paintings share with his earliest work a fascination with hieroglyph - like shapes and mottled
fields of muted color, though the palette is
overall less subdued and the forms less abstract.
In other
paintings, the
overall color
field will be derived from many different tones of that color, perhaps laid over a backdrop of dissimilar hues.
Three works that the artist compares to large Color
Field landscape
paintings (all works Untitled, 2017) anchored the
overall installation.
I recognize three themes in your
painting: «strokes and grids,» which comes out of your love of post-Impressionist
paintings and minimalism, «
fields,» which embodies your own unified geography of
overall surfaces that yield both to Abstract Expressionism's and Neo-Expressionism's painterly languages and lastly, narrative or personal history is an ongoing thread that runs throughout your work.
The hanging masses are no longer simply the secondary results of a primary physical action, but also parts of an
overall field where
paint is manipulated as a physical thing in its own right rather than as a material designed to depict something else.
Bacon's painstaking
paint application of the mid-1940s contrasts strikingly with the open dry
overall brushwork of the 1950s where figure and
field dissolve and bleed into each other.
JS: Although you have been included in a group exhibition about networks and grids in
painting, I notice that you tend to create discrete forms more than
overall fields, especially in the big
paintings.
Mark Grotjahn's recent
painting based on a curved motif used to depict eyes from Picasso «negro» works from nascent Cubism manages to transform the historical motif into something of his own, not a direct derivation, but a reworking of the device into an
overall field, recalling 1950s
overall compositions (like Pollock's Mural) and even Mondrian's Gray Trees from 1911.
Continue to evaluate the
overall picture your resume
paints, GPA included or not, for the best ongoing prospects for landing a job in the
field of your dreams.