Sentences with phrase «expanding picture planes»

For many artists in the exhibition, the radical language of modernist painting developed during the early twentieth century — of collapsing and expanding picture planes responding to the frenetic pace and fragmentary encounters of modern life — continues to evolve as distortions and mutations of the image take on new permutations with each technological advance.

For many artists in the exhibition, the radical language of modernist painting developed during the early twentieth century - of collapsing and expanding picture planes responding to the frenetic pace and fragmentary encounters of modern life - continues to evolve as distortions and mutations of the image take on new permutations with each technological advance.

In 1960 Greenberg wrote a major essay for Art International, «Louis and Noland,» which brought worldwide attention to the two artists Greenberg described Louis's groundbreaking stain technique as a means of giving primacy to color: «The effect conveys a sense not only of color as somehow disembodied, and therefore more purely optical, but also of color as a thing that opens and expands the picture plane.

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Hofmann would later refine his definition of push and pull as «expanding and contracting forces... the picture plane reacts automatically in the opposite direction to the stimulus received; thus action continues as long as it receives stimulus in the creative process.

With an irreverence for the normative nature of painting to find a definitive resolution, Evans tests the limits of a material and its spatial boundaries, as paintings merge with installation and the picture plane expands into sculptural form.

Her picture plane manipulates scale toward spectacle and generates a physical and psychological sphere that is intent on expanding painting beyond the confines of its traditions.

The nets appear to extend beyond the picture planes, suggesting the potential to expand indefinitely.

Clyfford Still got into that to the point of influencing the use of the picture plane as a medium of expansion rather than holding to the center of the canvas, but expanding it beyond, going beyond.

From 1970 onward, he developed several series in which he expanded the uniform picture plane, not only visually but also physically, by departing from the traditional flat format of the canvas.

While trees and animals are a recurrent theme in the artist's oeuvre, the works depicting birds on branches represent a new departure in terms of movement and composition, with the latter expanding to fill, and even exceed, the picture plane.

Now at Pace through January 13, «Elizabeth Murray: Painting in the»80s» takes the picture plane on a barnstorming joyride, beginning with the sloshing, shattered coffee of Wake Up (1981) on up through increasingly wild, expanding forms of oil on canvas that seemingly bend, crunch, and splat.4

Goode's «paintings of common objects» among which are his signature Milk Bottle paintings expand the work beyond the picture plane, sharing territory Robert Rauschenberg's combines or Jasper John's work in assemblage form the same time.

Rooted in the precepts of Abstract Expressionism, Thornton has expanded the vocabulary of abstract painting through exploration of a painterly geometry that remains firmly within the space of the picture plane.

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.