Jeremy Moon (English, 1934 - 1973) is best known for his large - scale geometric paintings that explore form and space through unmodulated
planes of color using a visual language informed by dance and choreography.
Not exact matches
McQuarrie layers the action over several
planes and drapes his actors in shadows,
using darkness and flashes
of color (like the billowing yellow dress that Ferguson wears or the blue lighting
of the opera's set) to bring clarity to a logistically complicated series
of fights and chases, measures and counter-measures.
She embraced the «synthetic cubist» method
of painting,
using small, geometric
planes of strong
color to create stunning, empowering portraits
of women.
Initially, Sanín created works
using a gestural abstract style, like contemporaries Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, and Joan Mitchell, but found her true voice in the geometry
of hard - edge, symmetrical compositions filled with flat
planes of color.
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.
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.
In his multiple and editioned works — what he calls his «cheap line» — John Baldessari often
uses stock images, which he adapts by adding plains
of color that highlight some
planes and obfuscate select portions
of the image, therefore forcibly shifting a viewers attention and perspective.
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.
For instance, one long horizontal painting
uses almost unscathed
planes of chalky
color, their borders meandering but determined, like the lines
of a watershed.
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.
As Browne drew attention to the transfer
of three - dimensional objects to two - dimensional
planes using bright shades
of blocked
color and the stylized treatment
of his figural subjects, he explored his interest in the relationship between art and nature.
In doing so, he
used multiple
planes of solid
color to create the illusion
of depth, space, and movement amid smooth, uninterrupted surface textures.
Vuillard's own style was distinctive for its
use of simplified forms,
planes of color, and decorative or ornamental elements.
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.
Lindquist's obsession with a Claude - like sense
of view is magnified by his alienating sense
of color (much like that produced
using a Claude glass),
use of multiple and layered identical images, and slightly off - kilter or literal frames painted into the picture
plane.
The Synchromists made
use of the broken
planes of the Cubists, but their lavishly
colored areas
of paint sometimes looked, as the art historian Abraham Davidson has described them, like «eddies
of mist, the droplets
of which collect to form parts
of a straining torso... To find anything like this in American painting one has to wait for the
color - field canvases
of Jules Olitski in the 1960s.»
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.»
Paint, wood, Velcro swatches, staples, metal and debris playfully conjoin as self - referential qualities that allude to process and materiality, while a deliberate
use of tonal
planes and gradation bespeak a progressive variation
of color - field aesthetics.
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»).
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.
For the installations and wall drawings in «Dentro, o que existe fora» (Inside, What Exists Outside), the artist
used colored planes to form simple geometrical compositions that nonetheless produced complex experiential effects, giving the impression
of three - dimensional shapes folding into and out
of the corners, walls, and floors
of the gallery, as if collapsing out
of and drawing viewers into revealed spaces existing parallel to the structural
planes of the
Using the plastic, elastic and malleable characteristics
of the material, he began creating highly - detailed facsimiles
of any and all types
of vehicles — trucks,
planes and automobiles — that satirize and celebrate the metal realities with bright -
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.
She separates hard - edge shapes with painterly passages
of carefully modulated markings, and she
uses subtle tonal shifts to create an illusion
of overlapping
planes of transparent
color.
Using bold
planes of color, Johnson reaffirms the tradition
of Southern California hard edge painting for this millennium.
Expanding on his signature abstract geometric style, works from this period demonstrate the expansion
of his
color -
plane theory beyond the
use of primary
colors and simplified
planes.
It is evident in a painting such as Auxerre that Hofmann has formulated a new kind
of painterly expression, one in which he incorporates the Cubist structure
of overlapping
planes in order to indicate depth and surface, as well as adapting the Fauvist daring
use of color and tonal contrasts to evoke a sense
of pure and unbridled joy.
Mitchell's jagged compositions
of this period project centrifugal forces, barely contained by the painting
plane, whereas Gedney's
use of pulsating thick
color with painterly drawings
of pure black — sometimes forcefully, sometimes suggestively, and sometimes architecturally, like an expressionist descendant
of Mondrian — fully contains the explosive energy
of the work within the pictorial space.
Renowned for his
use of bold, monochromatic
planes of color, Ellsworth Kelly (1923 - 2015) created a fifth
of his oeuvre in black and white.
In works like Provincetown, June 1947, Resika's
use of color extends well beyond the naturalistic decoration
of forms to the articulation
of space with rhythmic patterns and autonomous
planes of color.