These include some of the busy, all-over canvases of the 1940's, impacted hieroglyphs and gossamer webs of thin white lines over flickering color, as in "The Mouse Trap" (1949).
Kim Whanki's abstract geometry paintings have gone easily, while the outré work of the video artist Nam June Paik — most recently his cello-shaped set of six television screens showing flickering color collages, pornographic images and performances by the cellist Charlotte Moorman — failed to sell.
The scurrying runs and flickering colors that evoke sensual abandon in the Venusberg music could have used more Mendelssohnian crispness.
Despite the flickering colors and darks and lights, that topography appears inert compared with most of the other paintings, where patterning is warped and layered to complicated, spatially illusory effect.
After a clanking, dissonant percussion burst begins the piece, the music just hovers for long stretches, with tremulous sustained tones, quietly flickering colors and eerie instrumental effects, like softly scraping strings.
The electromagnetic treatment transforms the glass tank into a window to some distant universe, as the viewer looks out onto a constellation of dancing particles and flickering colors.
One, which we already covered in depth, is that Jon's eyes may have flickered colors during his death scene, possibly hinting at him warging out of his body.
It spans four rooms near the Space Station area of Dimension VVVVVV, flickering constantly from color to color.
The title is borrowed from Paul Sharits's 1976 film installation, a split-screen projection of a man in the throes of a convulsive seizure, intercut with flickering fields of color.
Now it's in Los Angeles: a miraculous image, like the rubbish pile -- a sublime, all-over orchestration of shallow space, flickering light, delicate color and heaps of information, the paint plainspoken, articulate and not at all fussy.
His best-known work radiates emotion with a complexity that is all on the surface, expressed in elongated, unanchored figures; misty-eyed, mooning faces; jagged patches of color; flickering lights and darks; indeterminate spaces; and forthright paint handling.
