Sentences with phrase «collapsing figure and ground»

Grooms's signature style fuses fine art and pop culture imagery, collapsing figure and ground into an abstract field.

Not exact matches

For years after the January 6, 1994 attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, I can recall peers in school hallways recreating the assault, faux - victims collapsing to the ground and bellowing, «Why me?

While the two schools of abstract expressionist painting shared certain characteristics ---- large scale; bold, gestural brushwork; emphasis on the materiality of paint; figure and ground equal or collapsed into overall, non-hierarchical compositions ---- Bay area artists, influenced by Asian cultures and the expansiveness of the western landscape, in addition to European painting, invited landscape references into their work whereas New York painters resisted such associations.

The works of Gardner and Maltese have clear affinities — their separate practices arise from a pictorial alchemy where, while maintaining mimetic characteristics of modernism, surrealism and troupes of abstraction, the distinction between figure and ground or environment has been significantly collapsed, favoring more flattened volumes and depths of field.

In their transposition of horizontal to vertical, in their insistence on base materiality and in their entropic collapse of figure / ground distinction, these photographs recall as well Rosalind Kraus and Yve - Alain Bois» reading of Bataille's concept of l'informe, complete with its associations of modernist and anti-modernist artists, from the Sacchi of Alberto Burri to Andy Warhol's oxidation paintings.