Sentences with phrase «figurative painting functioned»

This has sort of changed the perspective direction of a lot of post-analog painting, because whereas before, figurative painting functioned as a «window,» a recessive space with the illusion of depth, now there is a push towards illusionistic projection and forward movement.

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Whereas Bickerton's early works tackle form, function, and communication, with sometimes single words acting as the entire painting, his later figurative pieces are visually deafening, with bright color and cluttered objects mirroring the over-the-top excess featured as the work's subject.

Rothko's first fully abstract paintings, the Multiforms represent the crucial fulcrum point of his career, functioning at once as a direct reckoning with his figurative work of the early 1940s and a bridge toward his later classic paintings.

Using completely stereotyped genres (figurative painting, travel photography, landscape painting, and so on), Miller has been engaged since the end of the 1970s in a global critique of the function of the auteur and the resulting loss of the work of art's «aura».