In using these visual structures, Acha
creates pictorial spaces that are at once shallow and infinite.
In the late 1930s, in a series of widely attended lectures in Greenwich Village, Hofmann demonstrated how to «push a plane in the surface or to pull it from the surface» to
create pictorial space.
«We must
create pictorial space,» he declared to audiences of avid young artists and critics, including Arshile Gorky, Clement Greenberg, and Harold Rosenberg.
The combined elements
create a pictorial space confounding ideas of ornamentation and desire, high and low forms, figure and ground.
By contrast, in Nicholson's 1937 (painting), planes of primary, secondary and tertiary colours group around a red square,
creating a pictorial space with potential associations.
Scholars note the influence of post-impressionist arranging of color planes to
create a pictorial space in Giacometti's work, «model [ing] according to Cezannean technique of building up volume with a patchwork of complementary colors and highlights.»
The title of the exhibition is taken from the collected essays of Hans Hoffman, who in his essays challenged painting to describe depth in different ways, outside of points and lines, to
create pictorial space.
There was a strong sense of
creating a pictorial space out of the 3D space.
At that time Kounellis was still a student and painted signs from the cityscape and road signs: hanging fabrics directly on the walls of his apartment, he created a fragmented and personal alphabet made of letters, arrows and other symbols that mark and
create the pictorial space.
Not exact matches
Lisa Sigal brings architecture and painting into dialogue by
creating a series of physically inaccessible rooms that can only be viewed as
pictorial spaces.
His kaleidoscopic compositions of overlapping grids and patterns
create complex
pictorial spaces, and his use of transparent pigments allows the viewer to see, as the artist has said, «all the events that went into the making of the painting.»
With dazzlingly fluid gestures, Willem de Kooning
creates a roiling
pictorial space filled with roaming bands of color
created from a palette that gracefully fluctuates through a range of blues, yellows, whites, and grays.
Challenging and re-inventing ideas about
pictorial space, the paintings on view relate to Color Field painting and Op Art, and reflect Fangor's distinctive use of saturated color and blurred silhouettes to
create striking abstract forms and mesmerizing optical illusions.
Many of the artists represented in the collection have explored drawn formats extensively, questioning its status and conceiving new forms of the dessin: e.g. Trisha Donnelly, who fuses drawing and video; Urs Fischer, who
creates drawings in three - dimensional
space; or artists like Raymond Pettibon, Larry Johnson and Mike Kelley, who work with the
pictorial idiom of comics.
Combining three - dimensional elements within a two - dimensional
pictorial space to
create visually and conceptually loaded images, Muniz
creates work that fosters a shift in visual perception as well as cultural preconceptions.
Although, for example, Gobba, zoppa e collotorto, from the Cones and Pillars series (1985), directly references the impact of Caravaggio on his resolve to
create and radiate outward an expanding
pictorial space, it illustrates «cones», «posts» and «outward» — but not Caravaggio.
Through the use of materials such as nylon flocking, which is a material commonly found in wallpaper, sand, resin and acrylic paint, the highly physical surfaces
create a sense of deep
pictorial space.
A showcase for her extensive arsenal of techniques and ideas, her ambitious large - scale canvases
create patchworks out of different manners of mark - making and toy inventively with questions of frame dynamics and figure / ground illusions, often within a remarkably shallow
pictorial space.
«By the early 1980s, Brodsky's approach involved an exploration of flattened
pictorial space built up from layers of pigment that
create an overall surface pattern of light and shade, the whole animated by energetic ribbons of color that dance across the canvas as a record of the artist's spontaneous gesture, attesting to his engagement with the process of painting itself,» wrote Chalif.
«Current Locations» also speaks to these artists» affinity with
creating a sense of place (or places): painter Barbara Marks
creates voluminous
pictorial & interior
spaces with her deeply saturated color palette; Elise Church paints intimate environments based on her travels in
space in time; Colombian artist, Esperanza Cortés incorporates natural resources and folklore motifs from her homeland as a means of exploring personal identity; Kyle Vu - Dunn sculpts warped «natural» environments to harbor the self; and Viviane Rombaldi Seppey blends world maps (with emphasis on places she's lived) with morbid imagery from traditional medical textbooks.
While hinting at
pictorial space, she looks for ways to erode the hierarchy of supports, surface, and picture plane by using all components to
create an image.
Here, Braque lightens his ground layers, brightens his palette with washes of pure color, increases the size of his canvas, and
creates a complex
pictorial space that shows multiple, simultaneous viewpoints.
«I am trying to
create something that embodies or dramatizes the kind of psychic
space that exaggerates certain ideas and experiences,» Casebere says, describing his
pictorial method, a strategy in which the models exemplify what might be characterized as the architectural unconscious of a given spatial system.
Manipulating
pictorial and sculptural conventions through fantastically hand - crafted sets and costumes that combine drawing, painting, and collage, Bress
creates a disjunctive world where
spaces of imagination and representation compete for equal footing.
Andersson's use of windows, reflections, and depictions of paintings within the
pictorial space is enhanced by the juxtaposition of thick paint and textured washes,
creating a setting for vaguely supernatural occurrences.
In his «Re-emergence» series of works the artists at first seeks to
create an atmosphere freely, without being bound by realistic restrictions, introducing a new element, the geometric organisation of the
pictorial space.
Steven Nedboy works exclusively in a square format, because it
creates a neutral background for
pictorial space.
Inversion Landscape no. 1 plays with the motifs and constructions of these early Northern Renaissance paintings, but in this painting I wanted to destabilize the
pictorial space,
creating an unsteady, tenuous world, both beautiful and seemingly dangerous.
The heterogeneity evident in every composition invites the viewer to resist the
pictorial resolutions that one seeks in finished artworks, and instead revel in the liminal
space that Sillman
creates using her own visual language.
By this time, Vigas had
created such signature early pictures as Composición IV (Composition IV, oil on cardboard, 1944), with its melding of abstract forms, layered Cubist
pictorial space and a palette recalling that of Old Master canvases.
From a reservoir of largely vintage ephemera, Letscher
creates a dense
pictorial space in which words, images, colors and shapes tell a story about the world we imagined for ourselves as children and the often - painful real world we experience as adults.
Glöckner, was one of former East Germany's leading abstract artists, who, from 1935 started to
create collage - like, folded pieces that tested the notion of a shallow
pictorial solid and foreshadowed 1960s minimalism, while in post-war Düsseldorf, Kricke began producing sculptures made from welded together metal rods that reached out dynamically into
space.
While living and working for decades in various cultural contexts s such as Guyana, Canada, and the United States, Lyght
creates a wide range of works that analyze the structural properties of painting and reanimate
pictorial space as an open system.
In his video «The Living Room,» artist Patrick McElnea conflates photographs and magazine cut - outs of architectural interiors and exteriors, real
space and
pictorial space,
creating a theatrical stage set that forms the backdrop for his exploration of various identities.
The Exposed Paintings are explorations of colour and
pictorial space, and are
created through a process of addition and subtraction.
As a result, I intend to tie a reality constructed and modeled from representations and the virtual world of
pictorial illusion with the physical interactive
space created by the painting's materials and hypnotic conditions.
This emotive «inner world,» described by fuzzy gestures, liquid washes and subtle patterns, hints at vague
pictorial structuring, but Caivano is at her best when
creating a fluid and shifting
space held together by patches of color and paint, «pictures» that question their own premise.
In Vance's canvases, the background no longer surrounds the object, but breaks through it — by opening and closing these
spaces in the
pictorial plane the artist is able to
create the illusion of a three - dimensional
space.
Kahn is also interested in the idea of an undefined abstract
space: an idea that he feels has emerged through the tension of architectural and
pictorial space, and the emergence of a new form of
space created in the advent of digital technology.
Playing with
pictorial space of the canvas — often closing in on her subject — Otto - Knapp
creates a visual language that oscillates between the abstract and the figurative, reflecting the movement she captures in paint.
In essence, the wall,
pictorial space and architectural
space combine to
create an entity in every work, each in its own way.
Winters» kaleidoscopic compositions of overlapping grids and patterns
create complex
pictorial spaces, and his use of transparent pigments allows the viewer to see, as the artist has said, «all the events that went into the making of the painting.»
The images challenge the notion of how to make a line or
create a new posture for flattened
space or abstract composition, swivelling from geometry to gesture, propelling representation and language into abstraction, exploring
pictorial edges and boundaries as well as the constitutive or disruptive role of blank
space,.
Opening the
pictorial space as an inclusive realm, Anderson invites the viewer to bring their own cultural experiences and memories to the canvas, thus
creating a visual tension where viewer and artist are connected in their contextualisation of the imagery presented to us.
How do we use the color green to
create tension in
pictorial space even when we are making a literal reference to it in nature?
Challenging and reinventing ideas about
pictorial space, the paintings on view relate to Color Field painting and Op Art, and reflect Fangor's distinctive use of saturated color and blurred silhouettes to
create striking abstract forms and mesmerizing optical illusions.
«It
created a new form of
pictorial space that Braque arrived at from his close study of Cézanne's landscapes.»