Sentences with phrase «flat picture plane»

In particular, his denial of perspective presents each scene on a nearly flat picture plane.

His early paintings are hard - edged and graphic — triangles, circles, and hexagons on flat picture planes hint at delineations of depth and space.

For example, in a painting on paper from c. 1946 - 1949 inscribed and gifted to Anni Albers, Asawa uses subtle modifications in color and form to create a sense of depth and motion within the otherwise flat picture plane.

Much like the output of his contemporaries (Gilliam came a few years after Morris Louis, Helen Frankenthaler, and Kenneth Noland), his work falls in the Color Field genre of painting, an abstract, postwar movement that turned canvases into flat picture planes.

For him, that word can have a number of meanings, but he is especially interested, conceptually, in the inventive and surprising use of materials and unexpected manipulation of the traditionally flat picture plane.

For example, in her «In and Out» compositions, Asawa creates variations on a chevron pattern, utilizing subtle modifications to create a sense of depth and motion within the otherwise flat picture plane.

Among those technical ideas was that of the flat picture plane.

There are no formal boundaries in his work, instead he is constructing a portrait that goes beyond the flat picture plane, creating shadows and shapes that elicit a new way of looking at the portrait as a response to the way images are treated today.

Color Field is characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid color spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane.

In one of the works, two hazy, circular forms bring to mind the flash of a camera and also give the impression that behind the flat picture plane are two glowing lights and a boundless distance.

There's a sense in which a flat picture plane is intrinsic to Bonnard's project.

I am perpetually interested in the experiential moment — how the space of the flat picture plane can have physical depth and also allow for social interaction.

The Panoramas Gallery organized his first solo exhibition in 1957, at a time in which he was still focused on painting, but moving from the flat picture plane towards the third dimension.

In his early works, Ilya Bolotowsky formed abstract images on the flat picture plane by combining biomorphic and geometric elements inspired by both Miró and the Russian Constructivist Kasimir Malevich.

Disregarding the flat picture plane so celebrated by high Modernism, Held deliberately constructed the illusion of deep space, and then populated it with an unpredictable, animated interplay of edges, forms, volumes and, ultimately, ideas.

Doggedly focused on the flat picture plane (though he does occasionally make sculpture) and eschewing performance, Uemae was forced onto the «solitary path» alluded to in the exhibition's title — one that was not travelled by his action - based contemporaries Kazuo Shiraga or Shozo Shimamoto.

Inspired by European modernism and closely related to Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting is a style of abstract painting characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid color spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane.

He traces the edges into lyrical sweeps that have you dipping into and out of a flat picture plane.

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.

NG: The egg shape is appropriated from a shaped canvas by Lucio Fontana (1899 - 1968); on a formal basis, it is concerned with finding space on the flat picture plane.

On the final printed image, Maisel reintroduces dimensionality to the flat picture plane by integrating collage elements or physical cuts into the surface.

Emphasizing material and challenging the idea of a flat picture plane, Al Souza uses thousands of puzzle pieces as both the subject and medium of Cat Hair.

The invading monochromatic army of sculpted squirrels in Skoglund's surreal staged photograph Gathering Paradise (1991) pairs well with the playful platoon of Japanese - inspired animé and manga characters that litter the flat picture plane in Shimomura's acrylic painting Him - A-Hero (2006).

The main contribution of Cubism to «modern art» was to offer a whole new alternative to conventional perspective, based on the inescapable fact of the flat picture plane.

Ward, who is probably best known for his work in assemblage and sculpture, takes a moment to consider and grapple with the possibilities of the flat picture plane.

His flat picture planes, the low depth of sharpness and the focus on the surface structure resonate with the gestural paintings by arists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline.

Color Field is characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid colour spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane.

This sculptural extension established a physically immediate and active connection with the viewer, who now approached not a flat picture plane but a dimensional and bodily one.

The movement was characterised by simplified compositions of unbroken colour, which produced a flat picture plane.