Sentences with phrase «painterly eye for colors»

They show him to be a writer with a painterly eye for colors and textures, shapes and tastes, and for the blending of physical and psychological impressions.

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The lightness of being in his work, the range of forms, contours, edges, saturations and coloring — and the lightness of the spaces in between his network of slashes, swatches, and other painterly exchanges, is so navigable for the eye that the paintings are airy, permeable, and most significantly, written in a language that is all his own.

Philip Guston is often cast as an apostate of abstract expressionism — the guy who committed professional suicide by abandoning pure painterly color for crude pictograms of shoes, one - eyed lima bean — shaped heads, and klansmen's hoods.