It has a spontaneous and yet
subtle application of paint.
Not exact matches
I should also note that he was the first
of the New York School to make a mural - size
painting (it measures 7.5 × 10 feet), and that his personal style owes nothing to the athletic gesture that is often identified with certain works by Pollock, de Kooning and Kline, or the
subtle applications of the hard - edge geometry
of Reinhardt, or the fields
of suffused and unbroken color in Rothko and Newman.
With great focused strength and sharp edge
of paint application executed alongside the
subtlest and most gentle gradations
of color and light, he creates the atmosphere
of his beguiling compositions.
The moody dystopian atmospheres are punctuated by
subtle color shifts and a variety
of paint applications varying from meticulous rendering to loose, abstract expressionist strokes, describing figures and places like a visual shorthand.
This color sequence finds
applications elsewhere in Fish's work — as a
subtle coded system embedded into the surface
of her «Threshold»
paintings, and as a structural arrangement that underlies two further
paintings, entitled Threshold — Matrix: fragments [spectrum with grey] and Threshold — Matrix: harbour [spectrum: transposed].
In these exhibitions, many artists» works reveal decades
of practice with
subtle variations in the
application of painting, either relating to art history, or pushing the boundaries
of experimentation.