Not exact matches
Intermittently bright and gloomy, his
paintings are characterized by unconventional grade of the constant concentration of pure pictorial elements, as color, surface, proportion, and scale
followed by the
theories that they could reveal the presence of the philosophical thoughts.
I also mixed regular
paints with fluorescent
paints to get a wider range of colors, which I alternated for contrast, instead of
following some sort of color
theory.
In 1951, Saidie May died, and Jensen settled in New York City, where the
following year, the John Heller Gallery mounted the first exhibition of his work — a collection of twelve
paintings based on Goethe's
theories and executed in prismatic colors.
On Friday, while visiting the Met's early Renaissance
paintings with my friend, the painter Kay WalkingStick, I mentioned this centered - eye
theory, and as we looked, portrait after portrait
followed this form.
In New York, the smaller Parisian formats were quickly associated with fussy illusionistic spaces, and in an eagerness not to miss the train of Greenberg's seductive
theories, too many American painters fell for his Kantian logic of progress in art and the eventual critical endgame of the death of
painting that
followed.
His most famous book is probably The Meaning of Art (1931), which was
followed by Art Now: an Introduction to the
Theory of Modern
Painting and Sculpture (1933) and Art and Industry (1934).
The work takes its title from J. M. W. Turner's
painting from 1843, Light and Colour (Goethe's
Theory)-- the Morning after the Deluge — Moses Writing the Book of Genesis, which depicts the dawn
following the devastation of the biblical event.