While her paintings border on the monochromatic, subtle
traces of primary color reveal the laborious and experimental process behind each one.
Not exact matches
From the softly focused, romantic images the Pictorialists made in the early 1900s to the casual
color polaroids Andy Warhol took
of the celebrities around him in the early 1970s, these works also
trace the evolving styles and functions
of photography as it documented artistic movements and increasingly served as a
primary artistic medium in itself.
While the McNay show
traces the development
of Diller's art through various grid and
primary color preferences to a drawing
of a simple black rectangle encompassing four vertical yellow lines («He gets very minimal,» Williams says), an «anomaly» from 1938, during the time the artist was an administrator with the WPA, features a curving, flowing central image that echoes the human form, probably influenced by Stuart Davis.