It's motion in stillness, a dance of light and color via an interplay of patterns and contrasts.
"People notice the light," Ross says, "not the fixtures". "The owners wanted no contrasts of colors, only an interplay of light and architectural elements". Ross responded with dramatic subtlety, fashioning a monochromatic scheme of white and beige, with occasional accents of black or brownish-red.
It has to do with the interplay of color and rhyming form, which suggests a fundamental order in the world, something immensely reassuring.
In Mr. McGinley's art photographs -- as well as in his editorial work for fashion magazines -- the youthful vigor of his subjects is usually caught in color, in a dynamic interplay with the landscape.
According to psychologists who explore the complex interplay of color, mood and behavior, blue's basic emotional valence is calmness and open-endedness, in contrast to the aggressive specificity associated with red.
My friend Susann and I had traveled there from Paris to follow an "Impressionist Itinerary" about "The Moment," a term I understood to mean the momentary interplay of color and light.
The public can walk inside the near 30-feet by 30-feet temporary pavilion, walking up a stairway to a viewing platform where they can look over the site and are immersed in the grid-like morphological projections mapped onto its skin, along with the interplay of color and shadows.
The artistry was in the interplay of colors.
In another appealing series, however, she steps back to study the jazzy interplay of colors and shapes in a field of wildflowers.
"The interplay of colors is complex and there's a lot more change and working over of the painting than is evident at first glance".
The jarring effect of so slight an imbalance bespeaks the extreme precision, which we may lazily take for granted, of Matisse's way with interplays of color.
