Instead, they are usually
soft fields of paint floating next to each other.
Not exact matches
In 1966 he
painted a group
of soft toned colored
fields often broken by three parallel horizontal lines
of approximately two inches in width, floating or stacked on the surface.
As disparate as the artistic approaches appear to be in Rothko to Richter, what united the painters throughout the period was a commitment to process, as artists explored a range
of brushwork techniques, from audaciously gestural ribbons
of built - up
paint to vibrating
fields and
soft washes
of color to hard - edged geometries.
His
fields of color can, at times, suggest interior spaces and their
soft, flickering light is not unrelated to the French master's
painting.
Ippolito continued to open up the picture plane in his oil on linen 1980s works with the
soft diffusions
of color and suggestive forms
of «Paesaggio» (1980), the floating irregular shapes
of «One June Morning» (1988) in a blue / lavender mist, the opposing edges
of shapes hanging on within the blue
field of «Small
Painting» (1982), and the floating orange - on - orange diffusions suspended in «Orange» (1982), all pieces which exemplify Ippolito's belief in «color as light.»
The curator wrote that this work is one
of her «favorite
paintings...
soft and muted and really capturing the feel
of the fog settled in over the
fields.»
Viewers must cautiously walk the narrow and dark path between the wall and canvas, following the
painting's
soft fields of muted beige gradations, outlined and entangled by the white, red and black lines traced with her signature oil sticks.
This multi-media exhibition features work ranging from
soft sculpture, to abstract color
field paintings to landscapes
of human bacteria.
And many
of today's painters combine high and low sources: in her case,
soft porn filtered through Baroque and Color
Field painting.
A vertical
painting almost 6 feet tall in which sour yellows and greens predominate, it betokens Rothko's transition from an early style full
of Surrealist curlicues cavorting on tinted grounds to his signature abstract manner
of levitating
soft - edged bars
of color within
fields of contrasting hue.
The color hues were much
softer and at first glance, it recalled the abstract
painting or color
field styles
of Ellsworth Kelly and a more lighter Mark Rothko.
It includes, from the same period or earlier, Ad Reinhardt's black
paintings, Robert Rauschenberg's white
paintings, Robert Irwin's line
paintings and Ralph Humphrey's frame
paintings, which surrounded much more spatially ambiguous
fields of soft color with bands.
This piece is hand -
painted in shades
of pale green, white and
soft brown on a yellow
field.
This chest
of drawers was
painted first with a coat
of Primer Red and then in Lem Lem, a
soft warm green inspired by the colour
of allium
fields in Ethiopia.