Sentences with phrase «vast field of color»

Essentially a line of vitality and energy that seems to assert the mystery of existence and the dynamism of life, its unassailable verticality in the midst of vast field of color often sparks a mystical connection with the verticality of viewer standing in front of the painting.

Referencing both Impressionism and Abstract Expressionism, «The Veil Paintings» layer brushstrokes and bright dabs of heavy impasto, enveloping the viewer in vast fields of color.

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By building layer upon layer of close valued, luminous colored strokes of oil paint, across areas and vast fields of highly keyed, chromatically rich, and close valued color, Monet achieved a look and feel that goes well beyond conventional easel painting.

Greenberg, art critic Michael Fried, and others have observed that the overall feeling in Pollock's most famous works — his drip paintings — read as vast fields of built - up linear elements often reading as vast complexes of similar valued paint skeins that read as all over fields of color and drawing, and are related to the mural - sized late Monets that are constructed of many passages of close valued brushed and scumbled marks that also read as close valued fields of color and drawing that Monet used in building his picture surfaces.

The Italian colors, the clay earth, the buildings, the vast quilts of man - made fields really overwhelmed me.

Historically, AbEx has been broken into two tendencies: Gestural Abstraction (or Action Painting), which emphasized the energy of the painter's mark, and Color Field Painting, which focused on the creation of vast, seemingly floating areas of cColor Field Painting, which focused on the creation of vast, seemingly floating areas of colorcolor.

My eyes were attracted to small bits of bright colors in the vast beige field of beach sand.

The visual history of the African diaspora is annotated through the inclusion of three African - American artists, two of whom were born in the 1930s: Mississippi - raised Color Field painter Sam Gilliam shows vast draped canvases saturated in a gradient of color waColor Field painter Sam Gilliam shows vast draped canvases saturated in a gradient of color wacolor washes.

During the same decade, the painter Robert Motherwell — known as one of the leading exponents of Abstract Expressionism — began to mark vast color fields with small squares, alluding to the picture's former function as a window on the world.

Enveloping the gallery, vast opaque and translucent fields of color move like a river across the screens.

Clyfford Still, for instance, formulated his jagged forms as uprights in order to anchor color fields that were directly inspired by the vast flatlands of the Canadian prairies.

Together, Mann and I examined photos of some of Spierer's large collages from a few years ago, in which clumps of wadded newspaper formed islands of radiant energy in vast seas of blue, recalling both American color - field painting and the texture - rich tachiste variety of art informel.

Characteristics of this movement include works on a colossal scale which are sometimes intense, spontaneous, and extraordinarily expressive, while other times they are more contemplative through the use of vast color fields.