Sentences with phrase «dimensional nature of paintings»

The luminous color space of the background is simultaneously flat and volumetric, like a cloudless sky; it is a resolutely abstract space that asserts the two dimensional nature of painting and creates a dynamic contrast to the illusion of volume in the foreground.

She focuses on the two - and three - dimensional nature of painting, employing not only paper and canvas as painting support but also tiles and folded canvases in order to create work that shuttles between the two.

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The transparency that plexiglas affords provides a means for three - dimensional representation - Enteles paints on both sides of the plexiglas - further reinforcing the realistic and imperative nature of her concerns.

Calder's ink on paper works reveal his early considerations of space, while Nicholson's oil relief painting — created as a gift for Calder — aspired to explore the nature of space by creating real depth on a two - dimensional plane.

The multiplicitous nature of Weiser's paintings is also present in his use of different kinds of paint: oil abuts enamel, on top of matte medium, three - dimensional fabric paint, acrylic, and tempera.

From the deeply saturated 1968 monochromatic Yellow on Yellow by Felrath Hines to the pulsating binaries of Jennie C. Jones» acoustic paintings, the very nature of these works are preoccupied with the infusion of movement within the two dimensional frame and the inherent dynamic interplay between materiality, texture, sound, movement, and cultural acuity.

Our interest in Letha Wilson — on show thanks to San Francisco's Romer Young Gallery — has grown over the past several years from watching her skillfully cut, fold and paint otherwise banal photographs of nature, to her current use of concrete which heavily transforms her photos into three - dimensional objects.

Since the 1960s, Downes says, North American art has addressed the physicality of nature in two ways: as traditional landscape painting (and by extension through abstraction) and as three - dimensional sculptures that have a mimetic relationship to nature.

Manet, Lautrec and especially Matisse in his Cubist phase, gave magisterial blacks and greys a primary role as if to dramatize the drastic, two - dimensional character of modern painting; by its very nature monochrome painting is more abstract than colour.

Contemporary American artist Jessica Hartley effortlessly conquers the challenging nature of abstraction with her energetic panels that break free of the boundaries of their two - dimensional forms and confront the viewer with their bold colors, expressive paint application, and incredibly dynamic shapes.