The brilliant, "dissonant" colours and the strange shapes and poses create a sense of wonder and ecstasy, as the shepherd and angels celebrate the miracle of the newly born child.

This erstwhile Neo-Geo artist continues to posit geometric abstraction as a happening techno-Pop thing with computer-generated wallpaper, dissonant colors and a piling on of signature motifs.

Sometimes he uses complementary pairs of colors, and other times "dissonant" colors, again reflecting his connection with musicality.

The show's earliest works are layered, atmospheric arrangements of simple, soft-edged forms in rich, slightly dissonant colors; they call to mind Rothko and Guston.

Harold Baumbach, a New York painter of dissonant color and irascible temperament whose career began before most Americans had ever heard of his friend Mark Rothko, died on Saturday in San Francisco, where he lived since the mid-1990's.

The comforter was teal blue, the cushion on the rocker orange, the rag rug at the foot of the bed a cacophony of dissonant colors that would never show dirt, Mara had sworn.

(Johnson) JUDY LEDGERWOOD: 'SPRING FEVER' With a boldly insouciant touch and vibrantly dissonant colors, this Chicago-based artist makes grid-based pattern paintings using heraldic overtones and punchy mandala compositions of squished balloonlike shapes.

The paintings expressed emotion with wild, often dissonant colours, without regard for the subject's natural colours.

It is pointed out that Moore favored clashing, dissonant colors; in "Birds of the Air" they're acid yellow and orange.

Painting without much fuss, and depending mainly on a vocabulary of colored circles and stripes, he creates playfully patterned compositions notable for their slightly muted and slightly dissonant colors and their punchy frontal impact (Johnson).