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.
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.
«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
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.
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.
Sculpture was felt to be more socially engaging because it occupied actual
space rather than
creating an
illusionistic realm using perspective and other techniques.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.