His use of flat
planes of color arranged in rows that relate to one another horizontally, vertically and diagonally suggests the synesthetic blending of the senses — «hearing» color, «seeing» sound — and evokes the painterly experiments of the synchromists from a century ago.
Not exact matches
Scholars note the influence
of post-impressionist
arranging of color planes to create a pictorial space in Giacometti's work, «model [ing] according to Cezannean technique
of building up volume with a patchwork
of complementary
colors and highlights.»
For more than two decades, Jessica Stockholder has been fashioning a new language for sculpture and installation art, one that applies a painter's sense
of form, pattern, texture and
color to three dimensional spaces through the use
of a staggering variety
of media, from heavy duty construction material to mass - produced commercial products and even live horticulture.Her sculptural and architectural interventions spread themselves over the spaces they occupy;
planes of vivid Technicolor hues abut precisely
arranged and patterned objects and assemblages
of unlikely materials combine and bloom amidst the colorful chaos.
About evenly divided between abstract and representational works, the Meyerhoff collection demonstrates the captivating use
of color by artists as different as Josef Albers (the intense «Study for Homage to the Square: Light Rising,» with its glowing inner
plane of yellow) and Eric Fischl (sunbathers lavishly
arranged across a yellow ground in «Saigon, Minnesota»).