Sentences with phrase «scale flat colour»

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By the mid-1950s, Calderara began to move away from figurative painting to embrace a more geometric approach, radically reducing both the scale and the compositional elements of his paintings through use of simple forms and flat blocks of nebulous and subtle colour.

One of the artist's most famous paintings, Large Reclining Nude, displays the daring scale, simplified forms, and bold, flat planes of colour with which the artist treated the female form in the 1930s.

This diverse collection of art reproductions, both in artistic style and from different time periods, ranged from the flat imagery and distorted scale of animals in the Lascaux Cave Paintings — Hall of Bulls (c. 15 - 18,000 B.C), minimalist colour and subtle light used in Honoré Daumier's painting Don Quixote (1868).

Beginning in the 1950s and 1960s, several Abstract Expressionist / color field artists (notably: Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Adolph Gottlieb, Theodoros Stamos, Sam Francis, Ludwig Sander, Clyfford Still, Jules Olitski, and others) explored motifs that seemed to imply monochrome, employing broad, flat fields of colour in large scale pictures which proved highly influential to newer styles, such as Post-Painterly Abstraction, Lyrical Abstraction, and Minimalism.

Through portraiture, landscapes and still lifes, Calderara depicted the people, scenes and objects of his native Italy — all suffused by a delicate, misty light inspired by the atmospheric glow of Lake Orta in Vacciago, where the artist moved in 1934 with his wife Carmela, and where he would work for most of his life.By the mid-1950s, Calderara began to move away from figurative painting to embrace a more geometric approach, radically reducing both the scale and the compositional elements of his paintings through use of simple forms and flat blocks of nebulous and subtle colour.

Assimilating a diverse range of forms and colours — whether of copper or concrete, steel or cloth — Costa also oscillates freely between miniature and monumental scales, suspended and earthbound formats, or flat and volumetric structures.

German street artist (check out the Widewalls list of 10 German street and urban artists) 1010 (take a look at the 1010 Print Release: Abyss 49) has become well known for his eye catching «portal» designs that play on the eye and the mind, creating optical illusions on a grand scale (read the Bridget Riley: The Stripe Paintings article about one of the masters of creating optical art, Bridget Riley or check the work of Levalet in this Levalet: Bagages article that uses optical illusions in a different way) that turn the sides of flat buildings into an abyss that one could simply walk into as the layers of colour and carefully constructed shadows vanish into a dark centre that hypnotically draw you in (explore the mind blowing optical illusions of Julie Oppermann in this The Intense Afterimage article).