Sentence examples for colour fields from inspiring English sources

At first he worked with wax figures animated by stop motion, but his most significant films are the symphonies of shapes and sounds he called "coloured rhythms," created from shifting colour fields and patterns matched to music by classical composers.

Caulfied started out in the 1960s painting black-outlined objects against plain colour fields.

Kossakowski's images close in on surface texture or expand colour fields in semi-figurative works such as Cow And Violin or Peasant Women In The Field.

Jane Bustin and Paul Keir, working directly upon the walls and across the gallery floors, conjure colour fields whose pleasantries are offset with a compositional precariousness.

They were less enamoured of his abstract experiments in the 1960s, in many of which unidentified shapes float in colour fields, and of the calmer, more minimalist work of the early 1970s.

For all the surprise it caused over the Atlantic, abstract expressionism was not the start of something, but rather a beautiful ending, the epic finale of a long tradition of Romantic nature painting, gone up in the fireworks of Newman's zips, Pollock's drips and the smoky miasma of Rothko's colour fields.

The colour field painters did.

Greenberg, with prosaic exactitude, called it post-painterly abstraction, but colour field is what has stuck.

It was, to borrow the art critical language of the time, a colour field.

This period marked the apotheosis of the colour field painters and of Greenberg.

Colour field painting is what was possible, the next big thing in American painting.