"Whimsy, color, surface and texture are part of it.
Each offers a combination of sculptural form, color, surface and craftsmanship so exquisite as to elevate it to a realm of purely aesthetic gratification.
They are all here in the opulent, often iridescent colors, surface cracklings and convulsive spatial drama (complete with occasional meteorlike chunks) of these paintings.
But an exquisite combination of sculptural form, color, surface and craftsmanship elevates each to a transcendental realm of pure aesthetic contemplation.
In his exquisite care for nuances of color, surface and composition and the gently faux-naïf comedy of his imagery, he is closer to the tender romance of John Wesley than the acerbic classicism of Roy Lichtenstein.
A painting became an object in the process, too -- a de facto sculpture, positioned on a wall in a room, its content an abstract collection of physical properties (color, surface, size, shape, material).
It includes the source of Judd's aperçu, a 1974 Art in America article titled "Malevich: Independent Form, Color, Surface," as well as essays by Yve-Alain Bois and other scholars.
For their physical analysis weights were recorded and their growth was measured each time (leaf color, surface area and chlorophyll measurements).
The sublime balance of beauty and terror, fear and obsession, past and present, sex and politics, humor and critique, line and color, surface and narrative speak to his appetite for emotional truth and extreme honesty in all things.
Against a tri-color surface whose wide bands of green, yellow and red suggest a Pan-African background (the colors derive from the Ethiopian flag), a flattened, skeletal umbrella implies both shelter and ruin.
