Sculptural elements are pushed beyond the 2
dimensional space of the canvas and adorn the space.
Not exact matches
In her introduction Samet notes: «Although Gilliam is best known for his «Drape» paintings — unstretched
canvases stained in vibrant pigments and extended into three -
dimensional space — the surfaces
of the paintings he has made over a fifty - plus - year career are actually quite diverse.
Mangling the stretcher and piercing the flat edifice
of the
canvas to unleash it into three -
dimensional space, her works become transformed into something closer to sculptures.
Painters were not even required to engage with three -
dimensional space, such was the primal truth
of the
canvas.
The hues in Articulation Portfolio II Folder 28 (B) work in concert to give the flat surface the distinct appearance
of a tunnel or other 3 -
dimensional space; while the form on the left appears to move towards the viewer, the form on the right seems to lead directly into the
canvas.
Stephan uses the humble elements
of painting — the stretched
canvas, the brushstroke, color, the illusion
of three -
dimensional space — in straightforward ways, no painting tricks.
Applebroog propels her paintings and drawings into the realm
of installation by arranging and stacking
canvases in
space, exploding the frame - by - frame logic
of comic book and film narrative into three -
dimensional environments.
The
canvases of Francesco Clemente take on three
dimensional space with a new body
of work at Mary Boone Gallery.
By slashing the center
of his
canvases, Fontana allowed three —
dimensional space...
Nonetheless, the lure
of the landscape in Rothko's work is strong, and its relevance implies the impression
of three -
dimensional space, for which the most useful rhetorical equivalent is understood to lie beyond the confines
of the
canvas.
Further bending and crushing their often mangled shapes, he assembled them into abstract sculptures that offered three -
dimensional versions
of the dense, colorful enfolded
spaces of Willem de Kooning's Abstract Expressionist
canvases.
The artist retained the irregular forms
of his «shaped
canvases»
of the late 1960s, but replaced the minimalism
of his earlier paintings with three -
dimensional reliefs that project forwards from the picture plane into the surrounding
space.
Aware
of her work and its relationship to
space and the spectator, Heilmann transformed her paintings into three -
dimensional objects by using extra thick stretchers and painting the sides
of the
canvases.
Expanding the dimensionality
of each element, Nunes utilizes both two and three -
dimensional lines to redefine the
canvas space.
In close proximity to his
canvas works, Amm's wall and sculptural pieces project his deftly constructed compositions from the surface
of the
canvas into the multi
dimensional space of architecture.
During the seventies Bonalumi explored the three
dimensional space, breaking the evenness
of the
canvas such as: «blu abitabile» for Lo Spazio dell» Immagine show, and «dal giallo al bianco e dal bianco al giallo» for the Pittura ambiente show.
In Vance's
canvases, the background no longer surrounds the object, but breaks through it — by opening and closing these
spaces in the pictorial plane the artist is able to create the illusion
of a three -
dimensional space.
As she warped, twisted, and knotted her constructed three -
dimensional canvases, she gave the elastic shapes
of classic Surrealism a
space in their own image.
His career seemed to move inexorably toward creating an extra dimension, as his paintings took on the sculptural quality
of shaped
canvases and pushed into the gallery
space, becoming more and more three -
dimensional.
Highly influenced by the Dansaekhwa painters
of South Korea, Kim Chanil is known for his monochromatic works that distinctively transcend the two -
dimensional space of a flat plane
canvas.
Oshiro described his most recent works, a series
of bent
canvases that extend into three -
dimensional space, as a «still life
of a broken painting.»
Mokha Laget In Her First Solo Exhibition with David Richard Gallery Presents New Shaped and Colorful Stained
Canvases That Create Illusions
of Three -
Dimensional Structures Floating In
Space
His process often begins with layering a thick impasto or relief outline on the
canvas before applying paint, creating a three -
dimensional depth with an atmosphere
of light that implies architectural
space.
He explored shaped
canvases, reductive color palettes and multi-component
canvases to create the illusion
of three -
dimensional space in a two -
dimensional picture plane.
If we can consider the detonation
of the atomic bomb as having unleashed the potential in painting for the frenzied energy
of a Pollock, then the exploration
of outer
space paralleled Fontana's piercing the
canvas to explore what he called «fourth -
dimensional space».
Through the duration
of the performance, the three -
dimensional canvas is filled with the marks
of the artist's movements through
space.
However, she then pushes it further by incorporating the extremes
of color juxtapositions explored by Op Artists, such as Julian Stanczak and Richard Anuszkiewicz, to create vibrational qualities to excite the eye and add a retinal quality, while also utilizing the interplay
of color value shifts and shaped
canvases from Downing and Reed
of the Washington Color School to create the illusion
of volume and three -
dimensional space.
In their works they dealt with what they considered to be the fundamental formal elements
of abstract painting: pure, unmodulated areas
of color; flat, two -
dimensional space; monumental scale; and the varying shape
of the
canvas itself.
The Italian painter Lucio Fontana also made a name for himself in the 60s with his «slashed»
canvases, allowing the spectator to see through the picture plane to the three -
dimensional space beyond, which itself becomes part
of the work.
Encapsulating his distinctive «push and pull» technique
of implying
space while asserting the primacy
of the flat
canvas, Auxerre demonstrates the robust way in which Hofmann's paintings dramatize the dynamic oscillation between volumes and voids on the one hand and two -
dimensional color planes on the other.
In other words, the
space is generated within the acknowledged limits
of the two -
dimensional canvas surface.
In a radical innovation, Schapiro worked with computer programmers at UCSD to rotate her open shapes in three
dimensional space, projecting the digitally produced images to be transferred onto her
canvases in order to create works
of technical precision.
Accordingly, Grosse seeks to pictorially open up and dive into the
space and surface
of the images, contesting the two -
dimensional quality
of paint on
canvas.
(Note: While the press photo
of Snyder's Beanfield below will likely remind the viewer
of Monet before evoking Guston, a detail snapped by a visitor to the gallery reveals a different painting: one with vigorous, loose paint handling, and «bean sprouts» that seem absurdly to grow out
of the
canvas into three -
dimensional space.)
De la Cruz breaks convention, quite literally, by mangling the stretcher and piercing the flat edifice
of the
canvas to unleash it into three -
dimensional space.
In literal terms the painting was made as a simulation
of Matta - Clark cutting through layers
of a building, more formally the
canvas surface is not only a two -
dimensional picture plane but expands into
space and becomes a physical thing.