The paintings in this series are produced using the classical oil painting methods and materials of the Old Masters — successive layers of warm and cool black pigment glazes varnished to a highly reflective surface resulting in a profoundly
deep pictorial space.
All three artists, in quite different ways, wrestle with spatial issues inherent in painting — indeed that is the strength of their paintings ---- there's tension between opening up
deep pictorial space and reasserting the flat picture plane, in conversation with painting's materialism and objectness.
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.
The deeper the pictorial space, the closer it comes to shadow or surface.
A degree of mannerism is apparent in his later paintings, in which wraithlike figures «float in a watery netherworld» in
a deeper pictorial space than that of his compositions of the 1930s.
Not exact matches
Joyce Yu - Jean Lee: As a cross-cultural Chinese American, I think culturally rooted notions of
pictorial space can reveal
deeper philosophies, world views, or biases of specific cultures.
A desire to dig
deeper into
pictorial space, coupled with her careful study of Cézanne, especially his practice of drawing with colour, led to a new structure — the introduction of planes formed by the junction of intersecting verticals and diagonals — and of colours and contrasts.
Matta's reinvention of
pictorial space was fueled by a
deep interest in architecture and science, especially physics.