Sentences with phrase «background of the picture plane»

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Vera Iliatova, Richard Baker and Larry Rivers» large - scale still life works are full frontal on the surface of the picture plane with landscape pushed to the background.

He asks the viewer whether it is possible to distinguish different planes, foreground from background - the form of a traditional picture

His drawings of objects and figures in costume hang in space on the picture plane, suspended in their white background.

In his rock concert paintings, for example, impeccably crafted confusions of foreground and background, or picture planes traversed by lattices of stage light beams snag the eye, creating a pictorial equivalent of the heady confusion of the arena.

Titled Portrait when first exhibited in Belgium, fields of red surround a young woman as she reclines in an armchair barely distinguishable from the background.8 A simple black dress engulfs her and cuts diagonally across the picture plane.

Juxtaposed against minimal yet heavily worked backgrounds, parts and partial figures are dispersed across the picture planes or cropped at the edge of the canvases.

Unlike the surfaces of earlier paintings, in which thin layers of rolled acrylic paint constituted the backgrounds onto which black pixelated images were silkscreened, the backgrounds of the Shadows canvases were painted with a sponge mop, whose streaks and trails add «gesture» to the picture plane.

Flashes of identifiable imagery are now joined in equal measure with more direct visual sensations; in Birdcage, Off the Wall, and Mental Charms the picture plane is carved and contoured on top of distant, hazy, clouds of fluffy background.

Mark Flood's enormous canvas situates a gauze fabric veil at the picture plane, behind which a chasmic depth is inferred; Christopher Wool's intimate monoprints blot a bright red mark atop a printed black and white background, condensing or collapsing the space of the image.