Sentences with phrase «constitutive elements of painting»

Taken together, the totems and monochromes self - reflexively distill the constitutive elements of painting — canvas, stretcher, paint — even as they insist on their relationship to the everyday, on their grounding in the world.

While earlier works depicted wild, animated scenes with multiple characters, the newer paintings fuse — or perhaps more accurately prise open — seemingly disparate body parts and objects into an individual figure with each component forming a constitutive element of the painting itself.