Sentences with phrase «unmodulated areas of color»

The Washington Color School was defined in the 1950s through the 1970s by an influential group of D.C. based artists, including Kenneth Noland, Gene Davis, Morris Louis, and Paul Reed, who were central to the Color Field movement — an abstract art movement that broke from abstract expressionism by creating formal compositions of large unmodulated areas of color in monumental scale.

In their works they dealt with what they considered to be the fundamental formal elements of abstract painting: pure, unmodulated areas of color; flat, two - dimensional space; monumental scale; and the varying shape of the canvas itself.

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A friend of the French Intimist painters Edouard Vuillard (1868 - 1940) and Pierre Bonnard (1867 — 1947), Prendergast's personal «mosaic» style employed contrasting, jewel - like colors, and patternlike flat areas of unmodulated colour.