Sentences with phrase «valued pure painting»

Upstairs a number of works by Bruno Munari demonstrate his playfulness with typography, representative of an Italian tendency to combine art and industrial design — although this is not true of many in the exhibition, who valued pure painting.

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While both groups valued abstract painting as a «purer» form of art, there were also significant differences between them.

Rejecting both naturalism and pure abstraction at the end of the Second World War, Cobra valued unbridled experimentation and creative freedom, manifested in brilliant, colorful paintings of distorted figures that provided a more symbolic and political European counterpoint to the roughly contemporary «action painting» of the Abstract Expressionists in the U.S..

He experimented with bands of pure color in bull's - eye and chevron motifs and horizontal parallel stripes, emphasizing the flatness of his usually large canvases and the vibrancy of his colors by staining paint into raw canvas and using uniform color values.

Rejecting both naturalism and pure abstraction at the end of the Second World War, Cobra valued unbridled experimentation and creative freedom, manifested in brilliant, colorful expressionist paintings of distorted figures that provided a more emotional and ideological European counterpoint to the roughly contemporary «action painting» of the Abstract Expressionists in the United States.

These artists valued pure emotion, spontaneity and improvisation, and they thought that the physical process of painting was very important.

Each painting in this exhibition began as an investigation into color's three distinct attributes: hue (a single, pure color), value (the lightness or darkness of a color), and saturation (the relative purity or intensity of a color).»