Opening the picture plane to the space in front of it and exposing their stretchers otherwise closely attached to the wall, the artist's works allow an unusual experience of depth.
Not exact matches
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Perhaps more influential than light, however, was Impressionist fracturing: the equity granted to light and shadow on the
picture plane was extended to figure and ground,
opening toward abstraction.
He's also been using acrylic with oil paint, and it's
opened up the
picture plane for him.»
The words sit on the
picture plane, creating a play between the painting as a flat surface and as a window
opening onto the illusion of deep space.
Ippolito continued to
open up the
picture plane in his oil on linen 1980s works with the soft diffusions of color and suggestive forms of «Paesaggio» (1980), the floating irregular shapes of «One June Morning» (1988) in a blue / lavender mist, the opposing edges of shapes hanging on within the blue field of «Small Painting» (1982), and the floating orange - on - orange diffusions suspended in «Orange» (1982), all pieces which exemplify Ippolito's belief in «color as light.»
This is especially apparent when Beck
opens up the two - dimensional
picture plane to the realm of the sculptural, in which her creations stagger upright, balancing between creation and destruction.
In works such as The Dreamer, Ridgway cuts hundreds of tiny pieces from the paper to have their hanging shapes
open the surface of the
picture plane and cast shadows over the composition.
Fontana recounted how he had hit upon the idea of puncturing the
picture plane in 1949, and how this had
opened up the dimension of space in his painting and of outer space in his imagination.
Opening March 20 at Denny Gallery, New York is «Terrible Shadow,» a solo exhibition by Michael Rudokas who combines found fabrics, concealing and revealing the space behind the
picture plane.
Pistoletto brings the viewer inside his mirrored stainless steel
picture plane, which also
opens up endless possibilities for the work's interpretation within contemporary setting.
All three artists, in quite different ways, wrestle with spatial issues inherent in painting — indeed that is the strength of their paintings ---- there's tension between
opening up deep pictorial space and reasserting the flat
picture plane, in conversation with painting's materialism and objectness.
By adding a horizontal axis that is parallel to the bottom of my
picture plane (the area I'm drawing in) I can make sure the
opening is symmetrical left and right:
Though the film is purposefully so overexposed that the
picture plane becomes void of depth, Jonas nonetheless makes space legible through sound —
opening and closing the windows in her loft, walking around the room whistling a tune, the sound of dogs barking in the street, whispering or recreating sounds of a foghorn by blowing through the cones behind the camera.
He
opened an art school in Munich in 1915, and for the next 15 years he articulated a philosophy of art based on Fauvism and cubism; in particular, he sought to redefine Paul Cézanne's two - dimensional
picture plane in terms of light.
The fences sometimes stretch taught across the
picture plane as an unbroken barrier, but more often are slashed
open like a gaping wound or have the regularity of their grids bent out - of - shape, evidence that someone has torn through or scrambled up and over.
In 1960 Greenberg wrote a major essay for Art International, «Louis and Noland,» which brought worldwide attention to the two artists Greenberg described Louis's groundbreaking stain technique as a means of giving primacy to color: «The effect conveys a sense not only of color as somehow disembodied, and therefore more purely optical, but also of color as a thing that
opens and expands the
picture plane.
The mirrored graphic lines that fill the
picture plane are seemingly broken
open by a wedge of color, forcing the straight lines to become frames on either side.
For Latham, the qualities of spray paint
opened new approaches to form by breaking through the impasse contemporary painting had reached and allowing the convergence of art and science: «It destroys the
picture plane in a legitimate way where contemporaries were at such pains to establish that
plane,» he later explained.
The
picture plane by way of its reinterpretation had
opened and closed by the time we, the generation of Godzilla, emerged out of art school.
There are
openings to other spaces, bathed in light or cloaked in darkness, but the spatial illusion in his paintings is fused to a sense that the entire
picture surface is leaning up against the
picture plane, pushing into our world rather than receding away from it.
The next morning, as I waited for my friend who lives in Manhattan, I was flipping through a book about New York and I
opened the page to a beautiful
picture of the two World Trade Center towers, with a large passenger
plane flying overhead.