Sentences with phrase «planes of a particular color»

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Instead of flat planes, however, each plane of color is comprised of compacted small strokes of various colors weighted to a particular hue, like the fire - like brushstrokes in Pissarro's late paintings, or the compacted myriad of little strokes in pre-Renaissance tempera panels.

Gottlieb first used this vast, horizontal format in 1960 allowing his minimal, graphic language to stretch across the picture plane; he explains, «I eliminated almost everything from my painting except a few colors and perhaps two or three shapes, I feel a necessity for making the particular colors that I use, or the particular shapes, carry the burden of everything that I want to express, and all has to be concentrated within these few elements.»