Frank Stella has been recognized for his artistic innovations since the age of 25, when he cast aside the concept of
creating illusionistic space in his canvases in favor of privileging flat surfaces.
She has written of her interest in «reconciling figurative representation and the formal concerns of
creating illusionistic images on a flat surface.»
With the help of 3D glasses provided by the gallery, one can also see the surface magically piercing into the print
creating an illusionistic view of a crater.
Sculpture was felt to be more socially engaging because it occupied actual space rather than
creating an illusionistic realm using perspective and other techniques.
1 How to
create an illusionistic space and to draw from first hand observation using blind drawing skills, contour line drawing, upside - down drawing and mark - making.
The Los Angeles based artist will continue to explore ideas of space and motion with these works and is applying new media technology to
create the illusionistic environments.
«Three primary colours, as the source of endless sequences of tones... The shades and forms emerge through the constant blending of brushstrokes;
they create an illusionistic space, without any need for me to invent forms or signs» — Gerhard Richter «Richter succeeded in taking the inpaintings to a threshold where they exist — period.
Not exact matches
Various facets of his more recent white - primed rhomboids and diamonds are painted behind, or in front, in bright, saturated hues
creating a fascinating play between literal and
illusionistic depth.
Various facets of his new white - primed rhomboids and diamonds are painted behind, or in front, in bright, saturated hues
creating a fascinating play between literal and
illusionistic depth.
There is a well - worn narrative of twentieth century painting that goes like this: From Cezanne to Picasso to Pollock, the
illusionistic space of painting flattened more and more until the picture plane and the surface
created by the paint itself became the primary subject matter, eliminating images altogether in favor of abstraction.
Exploring how to force
illusionistic space out of painting, Stella
created the seminal Black Paintings, credited by some as reinventing Modernism and establishing the basis for Minimalism.
This exhibition consists of
illusionistic compositions — rendered somewhere between meticulous staging techniques, analog processes and digital alterations — manipulate perceptions of space and reality to
create photographs that appear as abstract paintings.
On view in PC — G's Reilly Gallery, this group exhibition consists of
illusionistic compositions — rendered somewhere between meticulous staging techniques, analog processes and digital alterations — manipulate perceptions of space and reality to
create photographs that appear as abstract paintings.
Her digitally animated works make use of the interplay between actual space and
illusionistic space,
creating environments in which the roles of the viewer and the object become blurred.
Inasmuch as actual physical parts form shapes and surfaces to be painted, Stella's rich
illusionistic mix has pushed composition outward from the wall, while retaining the idea of pictorialism in the use of pattern and gesture to
create an anomalous fictive space on any given surface.
His
illusionistic style
creates utter beauty in simple yet incredibly complex abstraction.
In approaching The Arcades Project (Harvard University Press) for the first time in earnest I explored Benjamin's use of «phantasmagoria,» traced it back through letters with Adorno, to Marx, to the 17th - century
illusionistic «theatre of phantasmagoria,» and developed an essay about illusions
created on social media for a journal tasked with addressing the rise of authoritarian populism around the globe.
The juxtaposition of disparate images with graphic renderings in an ambiguous,
illusionistic space in Burns to Breathe (Got ta Have a Better Attitude)(2014, 40 x 38.5 inches) recalls the «inscapes» of Surrealist painter Roberto Sebastián Matta, who combined unexpected imagery with unconventional painting techniques to
create fantastic landscapes intended as landscapes of the mind.
A series of lithographs, like Pet Stains, 1990, hark back to Synthetic Cubism: puddles of black paint mark a stack of trompe l'oeil newspapers so as to
create a tension between flat representation and
illusionistic space.
Martin Weinstein (NYC)
creates paintings on 3 - 5 sheets of plexiglass layered together to form an image of
illusionistic depth; he interprets this special theatre by depicting the same scene multiple times, and by inserting discontinuous elements... a reminder of the tenuous nature of reality itself.
He enclosed vast panoramas in abstract lines of color that
created an oscillation between pure painting at the edges and moments of
illusionistic space at the center of the work.
Interested in the spatial dimension of paint, Grosse wields a spray gun rather than a paintbrush,
creating abstract and
illusionistic layers of color and texture on unconventional surfaces.
Ferguson's paintings are comprised of built - up troweled layers of plaster with uneven surfaces, repeated patterns and
illusionistic depth that suggest something representational yet actually derived from geometric variations
created on her computer.
Tracing the archaeology of the paintings in the sculptural formations that accrue on their edges
creates a dynamic contrast between the
illusionistic interior spaces opened up within the compositions and the frank materiality of the gesso boards as objects hanging on the wall.
Moving back and forth between abstraction and figuration, he has depicted geometrical forms including dots, lines, triangles, square and ellipses, and rhythms of fresh and vivid colors on the pictorial plane, and has
created unique,
illusionistic worlds of painting wherein each motif influences and merges into each other while preserving a descriptive quality.
In
creating the drawings, Voigt first maps the movements of her entire body, and then translates her full - body experience into a symbolic language of
illusionistic organic shapes that float on a flat background.
Throughout his long career, Stella has used color, surface texture, and space to
create dichotomies in his work, adeptly playing with real space as opposed to
illusionistic space.
Their uneven surfaces and repeated patterns hint at
illusionistic depth and suggest something representational, but in fact their forms are based on geometric variations the artist
creates on her computer.
Richter began painting on photographs in 1989 as a way of joining seemingly opposing values: the tactile paint mark that is actually abstract and the
illusionistic depiction of real space
created by the action of light on film.
Press release excerpt:» This exhibition showcases seven contemporary artists who use paint to
create both an object and an
illusionistic space.
Ever since his softly overpainted Views of Corsica series of 1968 - 69, the artist has revisited and reprised its possibilities,
creating black - and - white townscapes based on newspaper picture and amateur photographs, mountain and park scenes with heavy impasto,
illusionistic seascapes in subtly gradated tones and paintings worked with abstract overpainting.
His
illusionistic drawings were often
created on found ledgers and used oblique projection.
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Illusionistic mural paintings in churches, to
create sense of infinitude.