Sentences with phrase «flat painterly surface»

Rauschenberg's Bed, 1955, was an entirely new species of art, fusing a flat painterly surface with a 3 - dimensional object.

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Yet these works deny their painterly roots, sitting flat on the surface of the stretched cotton as if the result of a print process rather than from the hand of the artist.

Furthermore, he insisted that the painting is nothing more than a flat surface with some paint on it, completely avoiding any symbolic qualities that some believed are the essential core of the painterly compositions.

The color contrasts are startling, as in «Yellow Half» (1963), a canvas nearly six feet square with a solid V of vibrant red bordered by lemon yellow and then a more subtle red, the whole set on a stark black ground; that is, the ground forms two right triangles on either side of the V. Characteristically, Mr. Noland later went back to these V's, as in «Songs: Indian Love Call» (1984), but this time with very painterly effects, crumpling the flat surfaces with broken strokes of thick pigment.

There doesn't seem to be a secret that needs uncovering: when I ask what prompted him to move from the lush, textured surfaces of the paintings he produced in the 90s — canvases that seem to have a warm bloom across them like a beautiful mould — to the flatter, looser, more painterly style he employs today, once again, he has no complex rationale.

Through the precise and exact painterly science that Newman mastered in which the flat color of the surface of his paintings is formed in direct proportion to the impressive scale of his works, Newman forged a visual language that aimed to provoke an existential sense of awe and wonderment in the viewer.

The 60s paintings are often packed tighter with more angles and movement, while the newer paintings are more open with a combination of flat and painterly brush strokes and surfaces that frequently include circular shapes.

There is a lot that can be done with a flat, bounded surface, even if each artist's surface of choice might vary, materially, along a continuum that extends from the time - worn painterly convention of canvas through to industrially - sourced Dibond aluminum panels.

Artists of the 1960s responded to the painterly character of Abstract Expressionism with a cool, linear approach absent of personalized brushwork, refocusing attention on the flat surface of the canvas and applying pigment consistently to achieve «an all - overness.»