Yet it is the formal interplay of colours and shapes that alone is capable of communicating a particular mood, producing optical sensations of space, volume, movement, and light and creating forces of both harmony and tension, even when a painting's narrative symbolism is obscure.
The cool splash of fountains and the casual interplay of light, colour and shade soothe the soul at Riad Kaïss.
From 1915 to 1919 Miró worked in Spain in Barcelona, at Montroig, and on the island of Majorca painting landscapes, portraits, and nudes in which he focused on the rhythmic interplay of volumes and areas of colour.
The museum's coordinators were pleased with the project; its official website describes its "true splendour unveiled in the sunlight", and speaks of "the shades of colour and the interplay of shadows paying tribute to the essence of Islamic architecture".
Take one gorgeously indignant (almost apoplectic) mouse, one (almost unfeasibly) laid back bear and that (Almost Entirely Only) One Rhyme and what you get is a picture book that reads with breathless ease: an object lesson not only in rhyming repetition, but visual repetition within which there is to be found a riot of variety of colour, expression, mood and character interplay.
The researchers say that a natural hierarchy of colour terms arises from the interplay between our innate ability to distinguish one hue from another and the complex cultural negotiation out of which language itself appears.
One of the finest is his setting of Dalle belle contrade, full of powerful contrasts of mood and colour underlining the interplay of direct and indirect speech.
Coat and plumage colours result from the interplay of a number of genes, and the variety of visible colours associated with specific mutations or combination of mutations may be used to gain an insight into underlying gene action.
