Sentences with phrase «soft planes of color»

Whereas de Kooning embraced active, dynamic brushwork in such milestones as Woman I, 1950 - 52, Diebenkorn's compositions bring together soft planes of color that undulate and flow within the frame.

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In «The First of May,» a large canvas from 1960, he paints a landscape of soft colors dominated by a towering plane tree whose branches and leaves are rendered in a swirl of strokes evoking Mr. de Kooning's gestural style.

Their shaped canvas fits together into rectangles that deny the shaping, while warm colors and soft modeling in turn disturb the picture plane with the illusions of a third dimension.

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.»

At the same time, Adams's planes of color — from solid to dusty to layered — feel illuminated from with; they give off a soft glow (there is that word again, soft).