The paintings, mostly oils on canvas, are rich in layered color and rhythmic line.

The dots, which are really concentric rings of layered color, read as tiny gems, islands or planets.

His layered colors and sharp-edged rendering are dark, a bit ominous and most unlike the bright, wild slapdashery of l'oeuvre Seuss.

White Center is part of Rothko's signature multiform style: several blocks of layered, complementary colors on a large canvas.

Some of the paintings bear marks from a hammer beating, a rough touch of the street imposed on the dreamy, shiny surfaces built up of layered colors.

The combination of layered color and widely spaced motifs imbues Mr. Fonseca's work with an oddly Byzantine luminosity.

Between were layered colors - red, yellow, blue and black, the individual plants shaped like funnels, horns, brackets, plates and, yes, toadstools.

Up close, one finds that the artist has constructed these surfaces with intense care, each different area given its own distinctively inventive application of mark-making and richly layered color.

Colour names and layered colours are woven throughout Heian poetry and literature.

The use of layered colour is also found in clothing in this period.