A Geometric Hard - Edge «Abstract» shapes in
a flat pictorial plane, Panel: Graphite and watercolor.
A Geometric Hard - Edge «Abstract» shapes in
a flat pictorial plane, Painting: Acrylic on linen, 58 x 44 inches, 2013
Not exact matches
The images are
flat on the
pictorial plane yet shift at angles and points of entry, allowing the viewer eye to move around yet denies total access into the work.
In contrast to the traditional verticality of the renaissance picture
plane, which is dependent on head - to - toe correspondence with the viewer, with his combines Rauschenberg introduced the «
flat - bed»
plane and in doing so completely reoriented the
pictorial surface so that it was no longer representative of a world space, but an analogue of operational processes.
10 As I've noted elsewhere, Rauschenberg's neologism window
plane — in its combination of the
pictorial transparency associated with a window pane and the
flat opacity of the modernist picture
plane — is a particularly concise and appropriate designation of his concerns.11
All three artists, in quite different ways, wrestle with spatial issues inherent in painting — indeed that is the strength of their paintings ---- there's tension between opening up deep
pictorial space and reasserting the
flat picture
plane, in conversation with painting's materialism and objectness.
In abstract painting, there has been this tendency to denounce
pictorial space, to make it more
flat, to reduce everything down to the
plane.
Yau: Leo's «
flat bed picture
plane» was significant to the
pictorial reading because it subordinates the orientation of the work of art corresponding to the erect human posture.
The lack of
pictorial space in favor of three - dimensional space represents a shift in the work from a focus on an interpretable interior space shared with a viewer to a
flat ideological
plane of action.