Initially, Sanín created works using a gestural abstract style, like contemporaries Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, and Joan Mitchell, but found her true voice in the geometry of hard - edge, symmetrical compositions filled
with flat planes of color.
Not exact matches
The pastel -
colored world
of Zubrowka is captured
with all the idiosyncrasy and precision Anderson is known for: written notes, books and objects are shot straight on
with loving detail,
flat -
planed shots center characters in the middle
of the frame, and hand - crafted miniatures depict many
of the film's more fantastical settings and vehicles.
Diebenkorn's practice is unique in that he deftly marries the
flat color and
planes of brushwork so lauded by the Abstract Expressionists
with representational subjects that are influenced by some
of Matisse's visual tropes and his dynamic creation
of space through form and
color rather than perspective.
My work is figuration that flirts
with abstraction; I've reduced the figures down to a
flat plane of color, but they still register as a face or a hand.
Often associated
with Abstract Expressionism,
color field painting is characterized by
flat areas
of color spread across the picture
plane.
This is a well spiked
with a few big names and themes: the
color theory
of Josef Albers, the concentric lines
of early Frank Stella, and the irregular shapes and
flat color planes of Ellsworth Kelly.
Drawing on inspirations ranging from Buddhism and American modernist painting to psychedelia and Amy Winehouse, Brooklyn - based painter Chris Martin (born 1954) «lets the paintings make themselves,»
with often generously scaled canvases characterized by
flat yet textured
planes of bright, saturated
color, frequently incorporating found materials and highly personal paper ephemera.
After some 30 years painting thick black lines and
flat planes of color («I called it Cloisonism, which was a 19th century practice which Van Gogh was involved
with for a time») the artist considered himself stuck.
Flat geometric
planes of dissonant, wild
colors interlock
with one another.
Other works include Christoph Büchel's video projection originally created for the Sydney Biennale in 2008, showing rehearsals
of a punk song performed by senior ladies; African - American artist Kara Walker's installation Darkytown Rebellion, a theater
of silhouette and
colors dealing
with race, gender, and identity; 2000 Turner Prize winner Wolfgang Tillmans» work Rachel Auburn & son and Bulgarian artist Nedko Solakov's large - scale installation The Truth (The Earth is
Plane, The World is
Flat).
Artists representing various movements and geographical backgrounds are all there: Cubist, Dada, and Russian avant - garde artists
of the 1910s and 1920s,
with their images
of flat, intersecting
planes and floating shapes; artists associated
with Minimalism, Op art, and hard - edge abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s, whose primary interest lay in the investigation
of reductive form and
color; and contemporary artists who continue to exploit the infinite potential
of simple geometries.