Frank Stella made "all-over composition" a hallmark of his works of the 1960s.

Mr. Krisanamis takes a passive approach to achieving a variation on the all-over composition usually associated with Jackson Pollock.

Her all-over compositions with messy blocky shapes covering the entire paper have a tremendous vitality and energy.

He knew how to keep details in their place, several steps to the rear of all-over composition and color.

Jim Lutes is represented by an all-over composition of scrambled shapes in black, red, blue and gray-white.

The all-over compositions vary nicely in pattern, density and suggestion.

Variations on the all-over composition, whose roots go back to Jackson Pollock's abstract drip paintings, continue to proliferate, often made of tiny semi-legible images.

Here the inclination toward the all-over compositions, preferably achieved through eccentric painting methods, is especially evident.

A field painting, Mr. Wechsler wrote in the exhibition catalogue, is one that "basically presents a unified surface, a so-called all-over composition."

Grant painted folding screens and decorated a tabletop with an all-over composition meant to look like a lily pond.