He was producing some on his most abstract works and with them, he challenged the boundaries of landscape painting and developed sophisticated and
subtle color relationships that remain captivating decades later.
Not exact matches
This
relationship can add
subtle healing energies while to
color of the Wood Phase (Green) may subtly drain or injure the weak kidneys.
Malone writes: «Each image is built of a dominant
color, yet within each
color there are
subtle variations that maintain a shallow atmospheric depth — not enough to sink the
color into a distracting illusion, but more than enough to activate its magically ambiguous
relationship to the picture plane.
Each provides an arresting autonomy that focuses attention onto the unique interaction of paper, surface, and paint; as a group, the works form
subtle relationships to one another and bring forward issues of horizontality and verticality, recurring shapes, and interacting arrangements of
color.
Shunning the grandiose, Jones» interests lie in the most basic essentials: the
relationship of form, composition and
color, and the
subtle nuances that give his paintings marvelous character.
In her essay for the exhibition catalogue, CPP founder and master printer Kathan Brown, who had a long and fruitful
relationship with the artist, states these prints are «the most complex and
subtle use of
color aquaint that I know of by any artist at any time in history» — a profound statement from one who has dedicated her life to that medium.
Each image is built of a dominant
color, yet within each
color there are
subtle variations that maintain a shallow atmospheric depth — not enough to sink the
color into a distracting illusion, but more than enough to activate its magically ambiguous
relationship to the picture plane.