[2] For Foster, Matisse's revelation resulted in the democratization of every point on the canvas, as a color's quality — its value — was now seen to depend on its surface area, and thus became inextricably tied to every other
plane of color on the canvas.
I most often begin by envisioning form and space in nature and then interpret my ideas and feelings into
planes of color on the canvas.
Not exact matches
I am however a bit surprised that they painted the sun - exposed surfaces such a dark
color in both the new livery and its predecessor, and wonder if that makes passive solar heat gain more
of an issue when the
plane is
on the ground.
In contrast to this background
of smooth
planes in muted
colors, giant screens occasionally lower from the ceilings to show scenes
of catastrophe in high enough definition that they seem to Jeffrey «immediate and real, a woman sitting life - sized
on a lopsided chair in a house collapsed in a mudslide.»
Soaring through
on a backdrop
of a beautiful blue cloudy sky is our fun flying
plane brightly
colored in shades
of reds and oranges.
Because
of two properties
of the functions: They can be defined and expressed
on the two - dimensional
plane, which naturally corresponds to the canvas; and Saint - Amant can associate
colors with the numbers the functions ordinarily produce.
The pastel -
colored world
of Zubrowka is captured with all the idiosyncrasy and precision Anderson is known for: written notes, books and objects are shot straight
on with loving detail, flat -
planed shots center characters in the middle
of the frame, and hand - crafted miniatures depict many
of the film's more fantastical settings and vehicles.
What really stands out about the graphics besides the rich
colors is the feeling
of 3D motion
on a 2D
plane.
In the case
of Seeded (1960), the first work
on the right as visitors enter the gallery, these
colors are amalgamated in an energetic mass
of swirls, curves, bold lines, and
planes of color that are further enlivened by patches
of canvas left bare.
More ubiquitous are small rectangular blocks
of solid
color, often containing modestly sized but altogether exquisite gestural marks, that seem both to sit
on the picture
plane and cut an aperture into it.
Sites, subjects, and methods
of observation are critical to each artist's visual language: planted fields, elevations seen from an airplane window, gradations
of color in a sky reflected
on a watery
plane, shapes glanced at through apertures between buildings, or the puzzle
of shapes in a tapestry - like world are some
of the inspirations for the paintings shown here.
The final wall is devoted to pieces from Ippolito's «Regatta Series» (1984 - 89) in which the watery
color planes suggest abstract but recognizable elements like pennants, sails and boats, and black wave forms blend into blue ground in «Land's End» (1986), with the full blast
of wind
on sails being felt in the horizontal diptych «Windward» (1987).
A term coined by Dutch artist and architect Theo van Doesburg in 1930 to describe abstract art based
on mathematic or scientific principles, the visual expression
of which was an emphasis
on planes and
color.
Oscillating between two separate works, Thomas's painted homage to Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech
of Black female empowerment, «Ain't I a Woman,» and a religious altarpiece, Diptych presents the sexy, Black female body sculpted out
of flat
planes of primary
colors in two dimensions
on the left (a gesture reminiscent
of the painterly techniques
of her idols Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden), and in a televised two dimensions
on the right.
The panels riff
on the shapes in front
of her or in memory, with seemingly unrelated
color fields flush to the picture
plane.
Bright
colors, hard edges and bold geometry convey not just the metropolis, with overlapping
planes that offer the appropriately byzantine complexity
on an optical level, but the feeling
of sunlight and warmth that greeted her there.
Ippolito continued to open up the picture
plane in his oil
on linen 1980s works with the soft diffusions
of color and suggestive forms
of «Paesaggio» (1980), the floating irregular shapes
of «One June Morning» (1988) in a blue / lavender mist, the opposing edges
of shapes hanging
on within the blue field
of «Small Painting» (1982), and the floating orange -
on - orange diffusions suspended in «Orange» (1982), all pieces which exemplify Ippolito's belief in «
color as light.»
Planes of light and dark in contrasting
colors counteract one another, revealing remarkable complexity in the works
on view as part
of Manual Digital, an exhibit highlighting eight artists in -LSB-...]
Using designs, icons, and
colors from all
of the world's national flags, without hierarchy or political prejudice, Kimsooja's installation To Breathe — Zone
of Nowhere creates a visual canopy where national differences exist
on an equal
plane.
Spectral things are going
on with Albert Stadler — a torqued set
of stripes as if the picture
plane blew at a hard tilt and then caused its
color to flow down as if rain - washed, at an angle.
In introducing Murray that evening, Varnedoe referred to her work «as dramas
of form and
color that accept, indeed demand, to play
on the more austere terrain
of high abstract art, in decisions about push and pull, bright and dark, fragmented and whole,
planes and volumes, sculptural and painterly, that move us before we know what they are about.»
Drawing
on inspirations ranging from Buddhism and American modernist painting to psychedelia and Amy Winehouse, Brooklyn - based painter Chris Martin (born 1954) «lets the paintings make themselves,» with often generously scaled canvases characterized by flat yet textured
planes of bright, saturated
color, frequently incorporating found materials and highly personal paper ephemera.
Japanese prints characterized by their broad
planes of unmediated
color, thick outlines, and bold patterns were another major influence
on Serusier and his followers.
Wilke described the arrangement
of brightly coloured sculptures, which were originally installed
on real earth and grass as «womblike blossoms resembling Venus mounds, a centrefold evolving from a circular
plane, universally existing in both primary and secondary
colors.
Exploring the possibilities
of the grid since the late 1960's, Willis became a member
of the Third Generation
of Abstract Expressionists, with his «Wall» paintings where he worked in a unique wet -
on - wet method creating linear
colored bands across the surface
plane.
Continuing to develop drawn forms, the 1990s introduced outlined geometric forms more autonomously depicted
on solidly -
colored, shaped canvases: Attic Series III, Study (1990) places an ellipse inside
of a parallelogram;
Plane Figure Series A (1993) sets two ellipses within a two -
color parallelogram; and Curved
Plane / Figure VIII (Study)(1995) places two ellipses within a three -
color half - circle, cut off a canvas truncated
on its right edge.
For example, in a painting
on paper from c. 1946 - 1949 inscribed and gifted to Anni Albers, Asawa uses subtle modifications in
color and form to create a sense
of depth and motion within the otherwise flat picture
plane.
In «Double Bill», a 2012 series
of large inkjet prints, [19] Baldessari paired the work
of two selected artists (such as Giovanni di Paolo with David Hockney, or Fernand Léger with Max Ernst)
on a single canvas, further altering the appropriated picture
plane by overlaying his own hand - painted
color additions.
In attempting to evoke the wonder, curiosity, and magic moments that unfold in life, taking shape as form, dynamic
color planes, and a surreal perspective
on space, Rebecca Norris Webb returned to her home state
of South Dakota to produce a body
of work.
Second, moving around big pieces
of painted paper for the mock - up
of the elevator bank mosaic led Hofmann to the signature motif
of his late work: little floating
planes of color, squares and rectangles
of pure
color locked together across the surface or isolated
on fields
of murkier
colors.
In the past decade Braman has become known for painted sculptural structures which breathe new energy into humble artifacts from life at home and
on the road ---- used furniture, car hoods, and wooden doors ---- with rich
colors of spray paint or
planes of cut Plexiglas.
And I think there is a tremendous distinction between this kind
of internalized abstraction and what Greenberg called
color field painting, which is nothing but
color design
on a flat
plane.
The autobiographical dimension
of the artist's work is revealed in pieces related to friendships, memories and places; while the formal aspect is evident in paintings
of grids and squares rendered in primary
colors and in works based
on architectural
planes.
pieces related to friendships, memories and places; while the formal aspect is evident in paintings
of grids and squares rendered in primary
colors and in works based
on architectural
planes.
This light - suffused gradation
of color from more to less intense is what separates Boyd from Albers and many other geometric painters who keep
color constant
on the
plane within the borders
of form.
Feitelson's oil and enamel
on burlap paintings feature geometric
planes of uniform
color with flattened space, smooth paint application and simplified forms.
Planes of light and dark in contrasting
colors counteract one another, revealing remarkable complexity in the works
on view as part
of Manual Digital, an exhibit highlighting eight artists in the US working to deconstruct technological paradigm shifts through their work with traditional art materials and practices.
Elizabeth Livingston's most recent body
of work evokes all the same cinematic emphasis
on visual scrutiny, moments
of false security, and entrapment by employing hyper - detailed patterns
of juxtaposed fabric to adorn her subjects against stark
planes of color and narrative light.
Moving back and forth between abstraction and figuration, he has depicted geometrical forms including dots, lines, triangles, square and ellipses, and rhythms
of fresh and vivid
colors on the pictorial
plane, and has created unique, illusionistic worlds
of painting wherein each motif influences and merges into each other while preserving a descriptive quality.
Each image existed independently
of the others, yet their arrangement
on the same
plane, along with relationships
of color, texture, and shape, force the viewer to associate them.
The mirrored graphic lines that fill the picture
plane are seemingly broken open by a wedge
of color, forcing the straight lines to become frames
on either side.
All added up to her eccentrically shaped paintings: wafer - thin enamel -
on - aluminum compositions
of shifting
color planes within extruding and sloping architectures that she mounted as closely as possible to the space's walls.
oil
on burlap over panel Daniel Brice's paintings are composed using a minimal rectilinear language, divided into
planes of color implying vast spatial landscapes.
The most visually dramatic element
of Nate Moore's current exhibition, Skyward,
on display at Emily Amy Gallery is the sheer number
of hand folded origami jet
planes that dance across the gallery walls, coating the room in whimsical shapes and
colors.
Using the fine point
of a bamboo stick, Pwerle paints masses
of minute, individual dots that float, cloud - like,
on a
colored ground, shifting and vibrating within an indeterminate spatial
plane, to depict the Bush Plum Dreaming narrative.
«This light - suffused gradation
of color from more to less intense is what separates Boyd from Albers and many other geometric painters who keep
color constant
on the
plane within the borders
of form,» he wrote.
Cézanne's solid
planes of color insist
on the surface
of the painting as a flat field against which the painter acts.
«Lit,» Oil and Acrylic
on 2 Panels, 48 x 61 Inches Susan Sharp is an outstanding abstract painter
of biomorphic and linear forms, flat
planes, vivid
color and highly glossy surfac...
The autobiographical dimension
of the artist's work is clear in her pieces related to friendships, memories and places; while the formal aspect
of her oeuvre is evident in her paintings
of grids and squares rendered in primary
colors and in works based
on architectural
planes.
(7) He considered drawing a critical precursor to painting, yet his emphasis
on color, rather than perspective, as a determiner
of space within a picture
plane, lay at the heart
of his ideas about art.