Sentence examples for expanses of colour from inspiring English sources

Abstract expressionism uses spacious surfaces, covering wall-scaled canvases with flowing expanses of colour that embrace the spectator.

Indeed, much of it looks like a 1980s reimagining of the jazz era, with swirly indeterminate lines and airy expanses of colour.

Tate Modern, London Rothko's canvases are renowned for their monumental expanses of colour, yet the artist insisted his paintings should be appreciated on more than an aesthetic level.

Yet very often the action is all one sees – colossal brushmarks, vast expanses of colour, leviathan swirls, a tundra of impasto, the canvas like raw denim in places, or bearing pounds of pigment in others.

What at first appears to be a flat projection is in fact a large room that viewers enter, engulfing them in what seems like a never-ending expanse of colour.

Among the artists represented were Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, and Jules Olitski, all of whom created colour-field paintings i.e., large-scale canvases with a minimum of surface details that are dominated by expanses of flat colour.

Rothko told Fischer that in the villa he sensed "a deep affinity" between the Seagram murals and the Roman wall paintings - "the same feeling, the same broad expanses of sombre colour".

There are big expanses of solid color.

Its decorative references to historical forms an anathema in Modernism along with the use of colour and small windows (versus large expanses of glass) heralded a new countermovement in architecture postmodernism which Graves and others saw as an inherently more inviting and approachable architectural expression.

After a short interval of darkness, it's in France, among poplar-lined expanses of giant ploughed fields, which become an impressionistic blur of colour at speed.

His command of the landscape elements great trees anchoring one side of the composition, distant views that draw the eye, and a vast expanse of sky and clouds—seems more assured, and his use of colour for effect more brilliant.