They are all here in the opulent, often iridescent colors, surface cracklings and convulsive spatial drama (complete with occasional meteorlike chunks) of these paintings.
A thirty-six-foot square of metal plates in six materials — aluminum, steel, copper, zinc, lead, magnesium — it was Andre's largest sculpture so far, and what he called his "erotic relationship with materials" came through in the subtle play of colors, surface textures, tonalities, mass, weight, and reflected light across the checkerboard of twelve hundred and ninety-six interacting elements.
Among his signature subjects are complex Mexican and European market scenes that include panoplies of colors, surfaces, and shapes.
Wrap the flower box in masking tape (to create an easy coloring surface) and decorate with colored pens, pencils, or even paint.
"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.
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).
