Sentences with phrase «single field of paint»

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Painted with a palette knife during a single session in the studio, the paintings juxtapose a single, highly finessed field of color against a solid, white band commonly along the bottom or outside edges of the work.

A painting has a single stroke of color on a field of varnish.

John Plumb was an English abstract painter who produced paintings with large fields of a single color and narrow strips on the edge of different colors.

You could imagine that bottom field as a single splash of paint, although of course that is only an illusion.

She favors optical activity over conceptual rigor in «pencil paintings» from 1968, where diagonals in several colors of pencil on acrylic create a single vibrant field of blue - gray.

Although the Japanise artist Yayoi Kusama creates in a diverse field that consists of everything from painting to sculpture, every single piece she ever produced has one same motif all over it — endless dots.

Completed in a single session, each is a flatly painted monochrome field that abounds with imagery including eyes, faces in profile and other more indeterminate forms, often in pulsating combinations of colour.

It might mean painting the entire canvas in a field of single colour, or no colour at all.

Inspired by geometric and colour - field painting, it displays nothing but a single red square on each of its parts.

An overdue, if far from perfect, reconsideration of Color Field painting reintroduces the joyful pictorial derring - do of an art movement partly done in by the single - minded advocacy of its biggest fan, the great American art critic Clement Greenberg.

In Newman's best paintings, such as Cathedra (1950 - 1951) and Vir heroicus sublimis (1950 - 1951), the imagery consists of a single field of color that is inflected by one or two thin vertical bands.

Sometimes a single paint application, in concert with the field of color that is the ground, is sufficient to yield a visually engaging result.

Invested in issues of the political, social and the media, Richter has nonetheless remained a single figure in the contemporary field of painting.

While having contributed to the Concretist and Neoconcretist movements that stormed the Brazilian avant - garde, she was never associated with a single movement but her work contained elements of Lettrism, Color Field painting and early conceptual art.

When he started to paint again in the mid-1940s, Newman sought a new style of mystical abstraction, and it was at this time that he made his first works using his signature vertical elements, or «zips,» to punctuate the single - hued fields of his canvases.

In 1967 - 68 an important shift took place in King's work, with the first of the Baggot Street paintings, in which figurative elements are replaced by plain fields of colour, forms are rendered geometrically and light is represented through the use of a single line.

Whitten's «developer» — a twelve - foot - long wooden rake invented by the artist to move large amounts of acrylic paint in a single gesture — resulted in his «slab» paintings, large color fields defined by a single movement.

Mechanical and minimal, these paintings feature a single joke silkscreened at the dead center of an unmodulated field of color.

Following this, if we steady our gaze, taking in the entirety of the painted field as a relative totality, the divisions between forms gradually fade away as the painting darkens into a single, monochromatic plane of color.

Genzken's way of working could be compared to the multiplicity of approaches found in the paintings of Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke or the related efforts of James Welling in photography, yet, unlike those artists, Genzken can not be defined by a single medium or tradition and has made compelling and influential contributions in numerous fields.

Making use of single colors and strong forms, Rhodes has found a new way to harness the potential of Color Field and Hard - edge painting.

Designed first in architectural software, each painting is a flat, glossy field of color, bisected by a single knot of compressed wireframe — presumably of something that looked more stable from the front.

Here, painted fields and figures reveal teams of mixed races, nationalities and religions, many symbolically reconfigured as single - team, single - goal tables.

Back in Washington, Noland and Louis began experimenting with the «soak - stain» technique, pouring pigment into schematic patterns that reduced painting to a single element - color - and helped usher in the «color - field» school of painting.

A single piece may consist of brightly colored passages of paint, photo - collage, found images from field guides and magazines, and drugs such as aspirin, marijuana leaves, and ecstasy pills.

Bannard's paintings from 1959 to 1965 contained few forms, as little as a single band painted around a field of color, and then developed into somewhat more complex geometric forms by the mid-1960s.

Console table, having a demilune form top of marble, on conforming table base with painted finish showing natural wear, its fielded apron with single frieze drawer, raised on round,...