Sentences with phrase «called flatness»

There's a painterly affiliation with the so - called flatness of form in Alex Katz's research, together with a Warholian legacy of image making.

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Some of the most discussed books in the BookPage office this year include Jodi Picoult's Small Great Things, whose black characters have been called out for their flatness, and young adult novel When We Was Fierce, the publication of which was delayed by Candlewick after receiving criticism for its made - up «street dialect.»

But that flatness yields a stillness that calls forth something vital about the sitters.

Called «Rendered Memory» paintings, these pieces — which he first debuted at Boesky East earlier this year — consist of a digital rendering of a gallery space which the 27 - year - old artist «singes» onto linen with a laser printer and then paints over with translucent brushstrokes that confuse flatness and perspective.

The flatness of the spaces in his paintings and collages emphasizes what might be called the lateral relations between the picture's elements, and he makes these as complex as any depth effect might be.

Painted from photographs but virtually avoiding the trend for photorealism, these works have a flatness that is very modern and akin to fashion illustration, yet also calls to mind the early work of Freud and Raho's big influencer, Alex Katz.

Returning to many of the same themes and motifs throughout her career, she creates all - over compositions that appear both representational and abstract, calling attention to the flatness of the picture plane and the process of building an image.

Producing works that bridge the differences between painting and sculpture, Gail Fitzgerald's Calling Occupants, Contact, and Origin are seen as bridges between the flatness of the two - dimensional work in the show and the sculpture throughout the space.

I debate even calling them characters actually because their flatness is about an ubiquity of the body itself in our landscape and psychic consciousness.»

«The Old Masters had sensed that it was necessary to preserve what is called the integrity of the picture plane: that is, to signify the enduring presence of flatness underneath and above the most vivid illusion of three - dimensional space.»