Mullen's work transcends
the flat space of the canvas and invites the viewer into a new realm which is not explicit, creating access into a wider spectrum of the possible, and the imaginary.
Not exact matches
Mangling the stretcher and piercing the
flat edifice
of the
canvas to unleash it into three - dimensional
space, her works become transformed into something closer to sculptures.
Taylor's «B» is angled to remind us that it has been applied on the
flat surface
of the picture, not on the door in illusionistic
space; the white drips on the floor could be in the room itself, or a result
of his vigorous work on the
canvas.
And then there are hard - edged paintings in which
space and colour are
flat,
flat,
flat and the
canvas plays tricks on your eyes, forming faces made from collections
of interchangeable symbols such as smoke, fire, alligators, matches, razor blades, cigarettes and the letter «z».
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The hues in Articulation Portfolio II Folder 28 (B) work in concert to give the
flat surface the distinct appearance
of a tunnel or other 3 - dimensional
space; while the form on the left appears to move towards the viewer, the form on the right seems to lead directly into the
canvas.
Donzeaud's experiments in turning a plastic used for containers into
flat screens that adapt to the walls
of the indoor
space are stretched out and over a frame; sometimes hanging like a
canvas in «Untitled PE (Caring 01)» and «Untitled PE (Caring 02, 03, 04)» or jutting out
of wall and becoming a sort
of installation - sculpture in «Untitled PE (Caring 05, 06)».
She begins a work by covering the
canvas with gradated colour, and in works like Menso, 2016, and Lya, 2016, these first paint layers are revealed in the final design, taking on a primacy, and in the case
of Lüür, 2015, a three - dimensionality through painted shadows that lift the squirming form off the
flat of the
canvas and in to
space.
This led him in 1958 to visit the Venice Biennale: the experience
of Lucio Fontana's slashed
canvases, which dramatically introduced the element
of space into otherwise
flat surfaces, was succeeded by direct contact with Piero Manzoni, whom Fabro met when he moved to Milan in the following year.
For instance, Self Born, 1949, while taking full advantage
of the «drip, blob, and spatter» method used by Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell, among others, went one dramatic step further by employing these devices not against the kind
of flat, implied
space that existed in Pollock's and Motherwell's
canvases but within the infinite, clearly defined atmospheric
space also found in the works
of such Surrealists as Dali and Tanguy.
In a time
of flat paintings — mostly I'm referring to those that lack perspective, as if all that's shown on the
canvas has been pressed up close to your eyes — I appreciate that the next course
of action might be a transition from pure flatness to a somewhat
flat, though highly layered
space.
Highly influenced by the Dansaekhwa painters
of South Korea, Kim Chanil is known for his monochromatic works that distinctively transcend the two - dimensional
space of a
flat plane
canvas.
The paint texture, marks and subtle variations in color, and bleeds / drips / rips
of paint similarly create their own interference, breaking the illusion
of depth and
space within the pattern, and bringing the eye back to the surface
of the paint, the «skin» covering the
flat canvas.
In the case
of 13th Floor Elevator, an additional stage
of over-painting in spray and gesso was then applied, putting into relief a
canvas otherwise focused on compressing
space on to a
flat plane.
In their works they dealt with what they considered to be the fundamental formal elements
of abstract painting: pure, unmodulated areas
of color;
flat, two - dimensional
space; monumental scale; and the varying shape
of the
canvas itself.
Encapsulating his distinctive «push and pull» technique
of implying
space while asserting the primacy
of the
flat canvas, Auxerre demonstrates the robust way in which Hofmann's paintings dramatize the dynamic oscillation between volumes and voids on the one hand and two - dimensional color planes on the other.
Having first attracted attention with
flatter - than -
flat hard - edged paintings, Stella has been steadily expanding into
space ever since, beginning with low relief and collage and proceeding to curved
canvases, paintings with projecting sculpture - like elements, and out - and - out sculpture — although Stella prefers to think
of his free - standing works as paintings in three dimensions or «sculptural paintings,» rather than sculptures.
Although the color and
canvas are bound together on a totally
flat surface, our eye moves, in her words, «miles back and forth» through the fictive
space the artist creates out
of her large, open washes
of color.
Frank Stella has been recognized for his artistic innovations since the age
of 25, when he cast aside the concept
of creating illusionistic
space in his
canvases in favor
of privileging
flat surfaces.
Painting will no longer create
space as a theatre; it will give
space itself a theatre.5 The paint will meet the surface sensuously, In a broad,
flat engagement
of the palm, by fingertip daubs, and through varieties
of clawing and caressing.6 Painting will always tremble, but very precisely.7 There will be no difference in the world between planning airily away from the
canvas and actually taking your brush and making the first mark.8 The revolution will be painted.
De la Cruz breaks convention, quite literally, by mangling the stretcher and piercing the
flat edifice
of the
canvas to unleash it into three - dimensional
space.