Sentences with phrase «constituent elements of painting»

However, it is clear from the punctured surfaces and layered structures of these paintings that the artist is recasting the constituent elements of painting and developing convincing alternatives to established conventions.

Unlike van Gogh, who in the Nineteenth Century could not yet imagine a wholly abstract art, Mitchell mobilized her artistic will to liberate the constituent elements of painting — line and color, composition and gesture — from their servitude to the fleeting appearances of the material world.

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Of course time exists very clearly in painting, although in the opposite way to music or film; it's telescoped into the structure of the work, and expands into its constituent elements only after the whole has been experienceOf course time exists very clearly in painting, although in the opposite way to music or film; it's telescoped into the structure of the work, and expands into its constituent elements only after the whole has been experienceof the work, and expands into its constituent elements only after the whole has been experienced.