His "square paintings" became more complex, with little geometric forms repeated across canvases to the point of resembling hieroglyphs.
Look closer, and the paintings grow even more complex.
Larger and more complex than her previous works, the paintings draw on 1960s abstraction but look new.
These decorations, which interweave various illusions of reality in a way that was more complex even than Raphael's famous paintings in the Vatican loggia, were a triumph of classicism tempered with humanity.
Mehretu's paintings grew bigger and more complex.
But the rest of the work was done painstakingly by hand: more than 29,000 frames, each of them complex paintings, 8 to 12 of them for each second of film.
So, in his new obscurity, he painted more prolifically than ever, free to now cut up "worthless" old paintings and collage them into new and more complex works.
By the early 1990's, the "shapes" had become more complex "mounds," and Mr. Dunham began incorporating Styrofoam balls into the paint, creating unsettling tumorous surfaces, as if the paintings were actually growing.
As the show progresses, you see how he took on larger and more complex compositions and was able to work from real old master drawings and paintings.
Crucially, a vehicular medium is said to incorporate not only physical objects (such as paintings and sculptures, say) but also actions, events, and generally more complex entities.
