Sentences with phrase «flat objects floating»

The large paintings Request and End of May, both from 1972, represent for me the artist at his zenith, with flat objects floating over backgrounds that have become more mottled, and deeper for it.

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Without Ambient Occlusion, scenes look flat and unrealistic, and objects appear as if they are floating.

His early work features broad, calm rectangles in the manner of the American Color Field painters, but Hoyland's distinctive contribution has been to break with the modernist insistence on a flat surface and to put perspective back into abstract painting: his mature work is characterised by depth and texture, in which strange objects float in the foreground or middle distance, against an often mysterious background, in a way that is oddly reminiscent of Miro.

In this painting the hexagonal motifs float in a space that I can not help but see as deeper than the two - dimensional flat plane that I know it is and that the painting itself keeps reminding me it is, by the refusal to open up a window on the world of recognizable objects, almost as if I find myself at the moment where perception attempts to become cognition and the attempt is continually thwarted.