These pictures read as both abstractions — dots on a flat canvas, and
deep illusionistic paintings of the night sky.
Not exact matches
In Rush's photo, there is a crisp tension between the flatness of the horizon line and the gate, both of which are parallel to the picture plane, and the
illusionistic perspective of the pier itself, which leads our eye
deep into the composition.This pictorial incongruence is to some extent reminiscent of the irrational juxtapositions in paintings by the popular Surrealist artist Rene Magritte (1898 - 1967).
Working like the Roman god, Vulcan, forging calderas and caverns with
deep, rock - like chasms of paint, Berg's
illusionistic space offers no horizon, only an ever - changing, tumultuous world where time and space are uncertain.
As he has noted, his use of «push - pull dynamics and the occasional use of
illusionistic perspective against raw expressionistic brushwork gives the impression of looking
deep into the canvas only to be thrust back to the surface.»