Abstract-expressionist Painting in America: An Interpretation Based on the Work and Thought of Six Key Figures |
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Page 195
... grisaille Nighttime , Enigma and Nostalgia ( Fig . 54 ) , dated 1929-1934 , was finished three years before Guernica , during the period when the painter worked almost exclusively in pen or pencil because he was unable to afford paints ...
... grisaille Nighttime , Enigma and Nostalgia ( Fig . 54 ) , dated 1929-1934 , was finished three years before Guernica , during the period when the painter worked almost exclusively in pen or pencil because he was unable to afford paints ...
Page 201
... in cool tones and the painfully red Agony ( Fig . 83 ) . Difference in color mood had previously prevented recognition of two iden- tical schemes . The print medium , classicistic grisaille , and funereal austerity - 201.
... in cool tones and the painfully red Agony ( Fig . 83 ) . Difference in color mood had previously prevented recognition of two iden- tical schemes . The print medium , classicistic grisaille , and funereal austerity - 201.
Page 202
... grisaille , and funereal austerity , all of them active in Picasso's Guernica , were noted a few pages back as cross - references to Abstract - Expressionist black and white ; but by far its most manifest precedent is the " brush and ...
... grisaille , and funereal austerity , all of them active in Picasso's Guernica , were noted a few pages back as cross - references to Abstract - Expressionist black and white ; but by far its most manifest precedent is the " brush and ...
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