Though art talk and theorizing ran at fever pitch, in practice the Cos Cobbers put out a quiet, conservative brand of Impressionism that emphasized a bright palette, pastoral subject matter and a concentration on what the turn-of-the-century novelist and critic William Dean Howells called the "smiling aspects of life".
Both public and critics were mystified by what they saw, baffled by the paintings' lack of finish, their bright colours and quotidian subject matter (none of which stopped them coming to look anyway).
Others have subject-matter expertise.
"He would be bubbly and bright no matter what.
If you haven't read him, try "Goalkeeper With a Cigarette" or "I Say I Say I Say," in which bright language profitably collides with bleak subject matter.
SOPHIE VON HELLERMANN Brushy passages of jewel-bright acrylic and swoony, knowingly naïve subject matter give von Hellermann's new paintings the feeling of illustrations in a hipster's dream diary.
But his air-brushed technique and colors, and to some extent his subject matter, epitomize aesthetic kitsch: bright and garish, they can read almost like sculptural versions of paintings on velvet.
Despite the intense sadness of her subject matter, she has produced a bright, big-hearted demonstration of female spirit, as well as the damage done by the boundlessness of male pride.
Use flash to fill in in bright light and to reduce blur if the subject matter is moving.
Rooms painted in bright, rich colors divide his output by genre and subject matter: landscapes, portraits, still lifes.
The movies were plot heavy, often adapted from video games, filmed in bright colors, and they were full of un-spooky subject matter like space travel and the internet.
