Sentences with phrase «entire picture surface»

There are openings to other spaces, bathed in light or cloaked in darkness, but the spatial illusion in his paintings is fused to a sense that the entire picture surface is leaning up against the picture plane, pushing into our world rather than receding away from it.

And while Frank Auerbach's paintings take years of sittings and reworkings, the final result can mean a total revision of the entire picture surface in less than an hour.

Not exact matches

We can't excuse The Scalphunters for being a product of its times, not only because we aren't living in 1968 anymore and such arguments transform film criticism into archaeology, but also because there is an entire bushel of films from that same year that needn't any apology, including George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, another pulp action picture with racial tensions bubbling beneath the surface.

This movement toward a more overall organization of the picture plane reaches a crescendo of sorts in Central Park Trees (oil on canvas, 2015), in which the sky appears only as flashes of light through the trees while the entire surface is otherwise occupied by a lush green glade.

The uniform enamel of the Doppelgrau paintings, pictures of nothing but their glass surfaces reflecting back the entire world, are lessons in seduction in fifty shades of grey.

On the topmost layer Degen has built up the paint into a web - like pattern, linking the entire surface of the picture together.

«Mural» set the precedent for the scale of Pollock's celebrated all - over drip - paintings (with their even distribution of compositional interest across an entire large surface), encouraged by a February 1947 review by Clement Greenberg in The Nation, where he wrote: «Pollock points a way beyond the easel, beyond the mobile, framed picture, to the mural.»

I suppose I'm assuming that the old masters and modern painters have always been concerned to create pictures without «holes» and «bumps» but that they have maybe achieved this in two different ways — modernist with flat planes parallel to the picture surface; old masters with an unbroken «skin» across the entire picture.