Sentences with phrase «traditional colors dominated»

His nation's traditional colors dominated in these new abstractions.

Not exact matches

Mistletoe and holly are endangered species around here — everywhere we look in the Southwest, the traditional red and green decorations of the holiday season are dominated by the very same colors of New Mexico's powerful state vegetable, the chile pepper.

Instead, production designer Raymond Zibach and art director Tang Heng, who spent years researching Chinese art and architecture (not to mention kung fu movies), have inserted vast, moody, misty landscapes, fanciful interiors and traditional Chinese colors (red and gold dominate) to give the movie an epic, expansive, ancient quality that's a real pleasure to inhabit.

This is a cinematically holistic work of diversity, in which cultural identity has been carefully woven into every element of the movie: a cast almost exclusively made up of people of color; a costume design based on traditional African jewelry and garments; a soundtrack that, at its best, puts a damper on the usual orchestral bombast and allows chanting or drumming to dominate.

His use of color film in the early 1980s, at a time when British photography was dominated by traditional black - and - white social documentary, had a revolutionizing effect on the genre.

After settling in New York, Kuwayama eschewed both traditional Japanese painting and Abstract Expressionism, which dominated contemporary art, and instead experimented with highly reductive painting, producing canvases with brightly colored fields of paint in horizontal and vertical compositions, such as Untitled: red and blue (1961).

His use of color film in the late 1970s and early 1980s, at a time when British photography was dominated by traditional black - and - white social documentary, had a revolutionizing effect on the genre.

In Rothko's color - dominated works, he not only moved away from traditional subjects, his colors became the subject.