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..., chalky greys and neutrals — biscuit, gold, coffee, tawny, sandstone — these paintings are shy, fastidious hymns to the passage of daylight as it glides across wall, floor, the chair’s pale lattice, a violet...
...The result is a gloriously sensual, immediate image, in shades of violet, mauve, amethyst and blueberry, of a woman in mid-childbirth, the symmetry of her breasts, legs and vulva giving her body an archetypal...
...Evoked in watery pinks, violet and mauve, the broad expanse of her skirt and long, elegant calves exude a salutary calm....
...The Cycladic island, carpeted in daisies, poppies and violet amaranta, could not be a more evocative venue for Gormley’s timeless vision....
...Pools of raspberry glimmer through a lake of teal; violet patches mottle a scarlet prairie. Draw closer, however, and they resolve into tiny pointilliste dots....
...In his violet-tinted shades (he suffers from glaucoma), black jeans and denim jacket, his drained pallor and stubble betray his familiarity with a dusk-to-dawn clock....
...The shrubs and reeds encompass samphire, sea lavender and sea aster, known in Italian as settembrini for the violet flowers that blossom in autumn and turn the waterscape into a queenly carpet....
...On the far wall, for example, the vast five-metre-long “Obliquo” (“Oblique”) (1976) slaps seven fierce diagonal bands of acrylic in tangerine, violet and magenta across the top half of rough, unstretched...
...Suffused with a strange, glowing light that shifts from violet-pink to blotted turquoise, vast ships glide slowly through an industrial waterway, their cargo of gargantuan machinery reaching towards the...
...His “Studio Boat” (1876) shows the little vessel all but swallowed up by a late-summer palette of gold, yellow, pink and violet that dissolves the waterway into a bower of richly blurred shades....
...To stare into its veils of colour, which shift through violet, plum and magenta, is to think of Rothko and his quest to capture spiritual transcendence through pure pigment....
...Morandi once compared Rousseau to the great Provençal painter but here the virtuosity of Cézanne’s banquet — the shadows lapping through shades of violet, crimson, russet and blue-white like a vibrato symphony...
...his undoubted dark side accounts for the way he nails the high-born professional singer, “Mrs Swinton”, as a wasp-waisted vampire, her raucous scarlet dress hopelessly mismatched with the bruised, sullen violet-greys...
...The finest example here is her 1883-84 portrait of a girl at a window which employs stubby, swift strokes to create a lattice of dappled lavender and violet blues that bind the girl’s white dress into roofs...
...Assembled from complex collages of painted papers, “Unburied Names” is a palimpsest of shifting texture and colour as open wounds of purple, teal, indigo and violet seep through scarred, cloud-grey skins...
...The earliest work on show here, “Women with Newspaper in her Lap” (1904) – constructed out of white, shell pink, violet blues and pointilliste greens – is a soothing, Impressionist experiment that gives...
...Constructed from comma-like scribbles loaded with yellow, pink, violet and grey, it is nevertheless the whitest coat you have ever seen, partly thanks to the contrast with the backdrop’s simmering cauldron...
...“The Sower” (1888) dispenses with sacred imagery yet sears the senses through intoxicating colour: “An immense lemon yellow disc for the sun …the field is violet, the sower and the tree Prussian blue,” wrote...
...Rope”, “Maria in the Gardens of the Royal Palace of La Granja” – take the breath away with the brilliance of their evanescent, clotted colour: the glassy blues and greens of a fish pond; the shimmering violet...
...adding a daub here, scumbling another layer there, could produce a painting like “Le Jardin au Cannet” (1942), where a carpet of thickly dabbed colour – rose-pink, plum, ochre, lime, emerald, sea-blue, violet...
...Behind him his mate and her foal-babies huddle in a rocky cleft while Cupid, bow in hand, sprawls on an outcrop before a violet-blue haze of sea and sky....
...Filling an arched portal that opens on to a canal, Candeloro’s contemporary watergate is no more complex than two panes of violet and metallic yellow overlapping to form a central panel that smoulders wine-red...
...Sustained by such a rigorous philosophy, it is little wonder that Perugino’s Nativity – a graceful, symmetrical tableau, pared down to the essential figures and framed by a hazy, violet horizon – is the...
...The gaucheness – stick-legged equines, humpy hills, depthless horizons – and the blend of warm ochres and cold violet-blues give these paintings the air of sublime dreamscapes....
...Under the gaze of crumpled, violet mountains and rolling, sage-green hills, the slumbering knight is flanked by Minerva and Aphrodite. Will he choose to follow the path of war and wisdom?...
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