Sentences with phrase «smooth planes of color»

Avery's early work incorporated elements of Impressionism, but his smooth planes of color and combination of figuration and abstraction would make him an archetype of American Modernism, prefiguring aspects of Color Field painting by years.

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In contrast to this background of smooth planes in muted colors, giant screens occasionally lower from the ceilings to show scenes of catastrophe in high enough definition that they seem to Jeffrey «immediate and real, a woman sitting life - sized on a lopsided chair in a house collapsed in a mudslide.»

While Kahn's paintings maintained his characteristically deft balance of color, planes in his work began to smooth, brushstrokes elongated and softened, and forms became simpler.

In doing so, he used multiple planes of solid color to create the illusion of depth, space, and movement amid smooth, uninterrupted surface textures.

Feitelson's oil and enamel on burlap paintings feature geometric planes of uniform color with flattened space, smooth paint application and simplified forms.

Such painting is known for its smooth surfaces, impersonal style, simple forms, and planes of color with hard edges instead of gestural brushstrokes.