As Newman captured «streaks of light» in his zips, De Luca captures the atmosphere of contemporary light and color derived from varying visual sources such as advertisement and mass media, conflating modernist abstraction with
contemporary illusionism and sensational effects.
Not exact matches
In this way my paintings integrate traditional
illusionism and
contemporary formalism: they are convincing representations of actual objects as well as abstract arrangements of light, shape, and color.
There's still no avoiding the experimental spatial
illusionism in the works of Valledor and Fleming that punctuate the walls of the gallery — and it becomes obvious that other artists who have until now rarely been associated with the gallery's history, namely Linda Fleming and Patsy Krebs, shared the concerns of their
contemporaries.
The
contemporary abstract artists are of an almost religious temper in their sense of dedication, and will themselves into a highly conscious pictorial celibacy in defiance of traditional, nineteenth - century
illusionism.
For over three decades, Jacqueline Humphries has reacted to predictions of painting's obsolescence, employing both traditional and
contemporary methods to position the medium's historical binaries — such as authenticity and simulation, handmade and mechanical, and literalism and
illusionism — in tight and competing proximity, suspending them from resolution.