Word: coloristic
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...works focuses on one central emblem, stained into an unstretched canvas that hangs, like a banner, on the wall: an orange-gold cone hovering in a void of purplish red; an exhilarating surge of scrolling ocherous waves, speckled with jade and malachite green. Johnson is an exceptional colorist, both astringent and opulent, and his work-like many a Tibetan tanka or Indonesian temple door-makes no bones about its decorative aspect. Yet behind this seduction of the eye is a strange impersonality, as though Johnson's role in painting them had at a certain point become mediumistic-notes transmitted...
...needed. (What could a Coppola expect to do with Finian's Rainbow anyway?) Every scene--even the most violent--is played for character, and timed with the perfection needed to bring off such cocky middle-distance lensing. Coppola knew that in Gordon Willis he had the best colorist in current Hollywood credits. So he lets Willis react to the setting in color while Coppola points his angles towards the people...
Robert Zakanych exhibited at Reese Palley last November, and a new artist of singular grace and power seemed to have arrived. Praised as a colorist, Zakanych-a solidly built, Midwestern-looking 36-year-old who actually hails from New Jersey-denies the classification: "People are always trying to tell me I'm a color painter. In fact my work is just about painting." Nevertheless, color is the overriding content and subject of Zakanych's work. He manipulates it with stunning precision, by dividing the canvas with a grid of close rectangular intervals and then producing tiny, almost imperceptible...
...young artist persisted. He went to London to study the sunset Turners, which expanded his palette. He encountered Japanese prints, which banished shadows and freed him from tunnel-vision perspective. He tinkered with impressionism, dabbled in pointillism, and became the leading colorist of fauvism. Eventually, he discovered Matissism...
...skillful rococo colorist named Joseph Blackburn arrived from England. He immediately became an established painter in Boston and his work had a profound influence on Copley's portraiture. Blackburn's colors were light and gentle but the elegance of Blackburn's style drew out of Copley the sensitivity as a colorist which characterizes all of his later work. Though Blackburn had a great influence on Copley, Copley's individuality as a painter was never obscured; the characteristic sharp contrasts of light and dark (chiarascuro effects), the bold, saturated colors, and the free, heavy impasto (paint thickness) persist throughout most...