These observations became translated through the construction of three - dimensional spatial paintings
as pictorial compositions that reconfigure the space and its architecture, using specific physical things.
Not exact matches
Poons became increasingly
pictorial as his color and
composition developed along a romantic and decidedly subjective path.
His kaleidoscopic
compositions of overlapping grids and patterns create complex
pictorial spaces, and his use of transparent pigments allows the viewer to see,
as the artist has said, «all the events that went into the making of the painting.»
Describing abstraction
as a «revolution of twentieth century art», Hoyland began making early enquiries into how rational thought and visual perception could be used
as the sole basis for
pictorial composition.
Over the course of nearly six decades, William Eggleston — often referred to
as the «father of color photography» — has established a singular
pictorial style that deftly combines vernacular subject matter with an innate and sophisticated understanding of color, form, and
composition.
At the same time, her almost decorative technique of making human and animal figures components of formal
composition, through the arrangement, or insertion, of color fields within the
pictorial space, credits Kudo
as an aspiring successor of the modernist formal painting championed by Matisse»
The first works in the series were debuted in Douglas's 2016 Hasselblad Award solo exhibition at the Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg, Sweden, and the
compositions that will be on view in this exhibition represent a more expansive and nuanced investigation into
pictorial abstraction
as well
as the complex relationship between technology and image making.
(«Hopper bets everything on
composition, which, in his work, is almost
as tautly considered
as in a Mondrian,» Schjeldahl wrote in his 2007 review, in which he also advised viewers to sketch Hopper's paintings in order to better grasp them: «Just get the main shapes, including those of empty space, and how they nest together in the
pictorial rectangle.»)
Since then and throughout all the years of the 1950s, her artworks showed tendencies to be highly focused on the center, meaning that the majority of main
pictorial incidents took place in the middle of the canvas, while the edges were of little consequence to the
composition as a whole.
Expressive, gestural fields of colors, juxtaposed within the
pictorial space are signature Stamos
compositions that seem to speak the same language
as another famous abstractionist of the time, Clyfford Still, albeit in a calmer tone.
These artists,
as pictorial cartographers in their own right, have utilized the human form in their
compositions as metaphorical representations; «figural» signifiers of the continent, highlighting the innate interconnectivity between man, visual culture and evolvements in the urban sphere.
By this time, Vigas had created such signature early pictures
as Composición IV (
Composition IV, oil on cardboard, 1944), with its melding of abstract forms, layered Cubist
pictorial space and a palette recalling that of Old Master canvases.
For the decorative in Stubbs's work stands for the rootlessness of painting, for the need to concoct it upon a «groundless ground,» to conjure it up out of nothing, yet conjure it
as style and
as a
composition of stylised
pictorial phrases.
Color now carried independent content, along with basic geometric forms, which became free from all iconographic reference and are meaningfully valid
as elements of the
pictorial composition.
The
pictorial space in these mesmerizing assemblages is comprised of clean geometric forms reminiscent of Constructivist experiments where light with its reflections and distortions acts
as a foundation for the structure of the
composition.
Bowling abandoned the political narratives found in his early works such
as the Martyrdom of Patrice Lumumba, 1961, and began to focus on purely
pictorial issues of colour and
composition.
As a result they focused greater attention on matters of
pictorial organisation, structure,
composition and colour.
While at Bennington College, Frankenthaler studied under the direction of Paul Feeley, who is credited with helping her understand
pictorial composition,
as well
as influencing her early cubist - derived style.
Noting her «complex, highly poetic
pictorial compositions based on the structures and settings and shifting light» around «windows and doorways,» our late colleague Hilton Kramer rightly championed Dodd
as among the «class of highly accomplished American painters whose work has been consistently rejected by the New York museum establishment.»
The rhythm of
composition and color float to the foreground of his consciousness
as he reconciles issues within the
pictorial space.
The show attempts to bridge the gap between the two bodies of works by engaging the issue of
pictorial representation
as an abstraction of depicted objects — a far - reaching pursuit for
compositions and techniques that seem fairly simple and straightforward on the surface.
Within the framework of the way 20th - century art has developed, the language of abstraction —
as a basis for synthetic ordering — comes closest to the process of musical
composition, or the possibility to make a
pictorial parallel to the work of let's say symphonic...
Winters» kaleidoscopic
compositions of overlapping grids and patterns create complex
pictorial spaces, and his use of transparent pigments allows the viewer to see,
as the artist has said, «all the events that went into the making of the painting.»
Stella describes the compulsion he felt to continue the series in the pursuit of a perfect geometric
composition: «The concentric square format is about
as neutral and
as simple
as you can get... It's just a powerful
pictorial image.
The images challenge the notion of how to make a line or create a new posture for flattened space or abstract
composition, swivelling from geometry to gesture, propelling representation and language into abstraction, exploring
pictorial edges and boundaries
as well
as the constitutive or disruptive role of blank space,.
Further upending any kind of conventional
pictorial logic, Ayhens is unafraid to cast entire
compositions in fantastically - colored glows, such
as the intestinal pink and red hues of Computer Lab.
Taking an interest in elementary geometry, he turned to the rectangle and its potential measurements
as the basis of
pictorial composition.