Sentences with phrase «ambiguous picture plane»

Further, beyond blurring the boundaries between abstract and figurative impulses, Gaman's insistence on developing an ambiguous picture plane also serves to force the viewer to find new avenues of pictorial interpretation.

Not exact matches

Malone writes: «Each image is built of a dominant color, yet within each color there are subtle variations that maintain a shallow atmospheric depth — not enough to sink the color into a distracting illusion, but more than enough to activate its magically ambiguous relationship to the picture plane.

This territory of ambiguous affinity and careful abstraction seeks to facilitate the works» activation, enabling each viewer to project their narrative onto the picture plane.

His lush surfaces and inventive palette form intricately layered planes of depth and flatness; objects continually dissolve and re-emerge, creating elusive, ambiguous spaces within each picture.

Each image is built of a dominant color, yet within each color there are subtle variations that maintain a shallow atmospheric depth — not enough to sink the color into a distracting illusion, but more than enough to activate its magically ambiguous relationship to the picture plane.