Sentences with phrase «flatness as»

Across several countries and decades, he resisted movements that propounded abstraction and pictorial flatness as the apex of painting.

In the «Black» paintings (included in the Museum of Modern Art's 1959 Sixteen Americans exhibition) and the «Aluminum» paintings which followed (his earliest shaped canvases, exhibited in this first solo show at the Leo Castelli Gallery in 1960) the picture's surface echoed and reiterated its depicted shape, reinforcing modernism's notion of painting's flatness as it sought to establish the painting as an object.

There was a time in abstract painting's past when the canons of American abstraction decreed flatness as the one defining element of painting: the point at which it was purely itself and not partaking of other arts such as sculpture.

Rooted in the literary - with particular nods to the conventions of horror and romance - and yet aborted from traditional narratives, his work seeks to explore the corporeal and tactile through high spec digital technologies, highlighting their deadness and flatness as jarring against the human story.

While focusing on works on paper, a medium that Dan Shaw - Town exhibited almost exclusively from 2008 until 2011, he became preoccupied with «flatness as a physical condition rather than an assigned value.»

Although the works utilize architecture, «they are not about flatness as a starting point,» according to the artist; rather, they are «the projection of thought into space without the constraint of architecture.»

She explains that she had to «grapple with the flatness as it was suffocating [and] restraining,» «worked more in flat surfaces after coming back from India and started feeling trapped,» and «needed to get space back into the painting.»

Clement Greenberg (1909 - 1974) made great claims in those days for flatness as the defining property of modernist painting.

His first paintings were of boats, and were characterized by gay colour and the use of the painting's flatness as a structural element.

However, «Flatlands,» a tight selection of millennial painters, toys with an alternate definition of flatness as an expression of 21st century anomie, conjuring «a sense of space that is dimensionless and airless.»

In this case, low - key violets and greens along the edges set up an expectation of deep space in the center, exactly where an incandescent swath of yellow — by far the warm ¬ est, most saturated area — thrusts to the surface, asserting color, light and flatness as dominant concerns.

Formalist critics, especially Clement Greenberg (1909 - 1994), made much of perceived flatness as one of the qualities through which modernist painting distinguished its claims on our attention from those of all the other contemporaneous arts.

Bonnard's exploration of visual sensation thus involves flatness as a primary condition.

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Maybe this is just the market returning to more normal conditions with some volatility as opposed to the artificial flatness?

His inability to achieve a felt, as distinct from a rationally understood, harmony with the divine resulted in a flatness of personality.

The attitude that nothing matters very much and that one thing is the same as every other thing — a feeling of «flatness» and of boredom — is in the direction of the irreligious.

Furthermore, many proponents argue that transcendence issues in beneficial consequences: it leads to creativity, to a sense of the hollowness and flatness of daily life as one sees beyond it, to an opening of perceptions and sensitivity to the normally unseen «realities» beyond the trivialities of worldly existence.

The visuals have been often described as «awesome,» but they weren't authentic or rich enough to keep my attention (maybe imitating the flatness of dreams, but who cares?).

It is not so easy a matter to perform this task aright; to stand in the presence of God and to speak in his name, with that plainness and simplicity, that seriousness and gravity, that zeal and concern, which the business requires; to accommodate ourselves to the capacity of the common people without disgusting our more knowing hearers by the insipid flatness of our discourse; to excite and awaken drowsy souls, without terrifying and disturbing more tender consciences; to bear home the convictions of sin, without the appearance of some personal reflection; in a word, to approve ourselves unto God as workmen that need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.21

They are nevertheless quite a televisual thing, assisted by the flatness of the screen, the immediacy of the reverse angle replay, and the fact that commentators — working in the moment as they must — can't really get away with «And that was a goal, of uncertain provenance!»

What's different now is that the ennui, the flatness, the lack of passion which has afflicted Miliband's leadership is becoming replaced with a quickening of the pulse as the general election approaches.

We can spend huge amounts of time and energy focusing on something as minute as the width of our thighs or the flatness of our bellies and tear ourselves to pieces.

I refrigerated the dough for half hour before baking (as I always do with cookies to avoid flatness), and for some reason they still flattened out into a pancake the moment I took them out of the oven!

It's effective intrigue, yes, but a kind quickly deadened by dialogue stupefying in its torpidity — as is the case throughout — and by the flatness of these characters.

The flatness is a selling point because of the film's unique audio design; the disembodied voices sound completely isolated as they should.

Crowe, despite his considerable talents as a dramatic actor, is plainly incapable of presenting Javert's convictions believably, starting with the embarrassingly obvious fact that acting well while singing is way beyond his reach; his warning to Valjean to heed his words and remember his name is delivered with such flatness and with so little affect that it's difficult to think of anything else.

As a result the movie feels delicate and presents certain flatness in its structure, like cracks that have been papered over and held together with superglue so that it may be sold to the public quick, before anyone notices that it's broken.

As eagerly as I anticipated this movie, my hopes were quickly dashed by the flatness and dreariness of the productioAs eagerly as I anticipated this movie, my hopes were quickly dashed by the flatness and dreariness of the productioas I anticipated this movie, my hopes were quickly dashed by the flatness and dreariness of the production.

Though it's likely the 1.85:1, 1080p transfer would have a little more snap with different / superior encoding (not to mention a broader bitrate, as the movie occupies a scant 14 GB of a 25 GB platter), I suspect a certain flatness of latitude, at least, is by design: It makes sense for Oscar to kind of float through a void.

As for the script, though, you almost suspect the film of playing arch games with the flatness of disaster movie dialogue, daring us to yawn or giggle:

However, as we listened to Earth, Wind & Fire's «Let's Groove» and Waka Flaka's «No Hands,» we noticed a consistent overall flatness to the sound.

We examine and identify plot holes, tropes to be revised, flatness in characters and / or lack of development, and provide a detailed analysis of the manuscript through track changes as well as in a separate summary regarding suggestions to strengthen the manuscript's plot, characters, structure, etc..

- Kirkus «The author highlights the dense slums of Kampala with the same intensity as he does the flatness of his midwestern farm town.

The «steepness» and «flatness» in the curves can indicate potential changes in interest rates as well as economic expectations.

So close to Gauteng it is virtually on its doorstep, it is regarded as outdoors country with a climate to match, and often described in terms of its flatness, smattering of trees and grasslands — it's the natural habitat of the black and white rhino.

So close to Gauteng it is virtually on its doorstep, it is regarded as outdoors country with a climate to match, and often described in terms of its flatness, smatter...

The assertion that the Cubist depiction of space, mass, time, and volume supports (rather than contradicts) the flatness of the canvas was made by Daniel - Henry Kahnweiler as early as 1920, [12] but it was subject to criticism in the 1950s and 1960s, especially by Clement Greenberg.

While each adjustment is undertaken to orchestrate and tighten the relation of each pictorial unit to every other pictorial unit, to secure formally the integrity of each painting as a whole, the overall effect of the process is also to enliven the space, to acknowledge its flatness while simultaneously allowing it visually to twist and warp and bend, to project and recede, to be positive and negative — and thus to explore and personalize what's become natural to pictorial space since Cezanne and Cubism radicalized it more than a century ago.

Her work addresses how the historical can be used as a material to address contemporary conditions such as loss, the swipe, the flatness and limitations of an image, emotions in classical sculpture, the use of models, muscle aches from using a computer, color as a language, and the democracy of materials such as clay.

2013 Art Public: Only One Like You, curated by Nicolas Baume, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach, FL Pataphysics (A Theoretical Exhibition), Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY Body is Present, Berrie Center for Performing and Visual Arts, Ramapo College, NJ Hold on Her, (performance), Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH All Good Things, SOMA Arts, San Francisco, CA Remainder, curated by Lauren Ross, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma The Lobby Project, City Center, New York, NY Sisyphus: Heroism of the Absurd, Arte Actual, Quito, Ecuador If Color, then also Dimension; If Flatness, then Texture, etc., LMCC at Governor's Island, New York, NY Object Focus: The Bowl, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR Paint Things: Beyond the Stretcher, Decordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA In Praise of Chance and Failure, Family Business, New York, NY There Is No Place Like Home, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers, Newark, NJ Only as Signal Show, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA No Sun Without Shadow, Lu Magnus, New York, NY Unfolding Tales: Selections from the Contemporary Collection, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

«Untitled (CR1403)» is as fl at as you please — flatness having once been a badge of formalist integrity — and its composition visibly takes account of the stretched canvas» edges and real scale.

He is trying to compress the woman, squeeze her into the flatness of the picture plane, while on the walls around them hang late modernist abstractions that Greenberg once heralded as the future of art.

Later artists used the interior as a jumping off point to experiment with perspective and flatness.

Her work erodes the boundaries between mediums, echoing color field painting and post-painterly abstraction even as they defy flatness.

If Pollock and Kline proved influential, so too did the «flatness» of work by Barnett Newman — as did paintings by Jasper Johns, whose 1958 exhibition first inspired Stella to use his now - trademark stripes as a compositional tool.

Janet Bishop, curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art argues that this interest in concrete placement came as a reaction to the flatness of Abstract Expressionism.

Faramawy's video works have been included in screening events such as Flatness, Oberhausen Film Festival, Syndrome of a Decade, Ikono Film Festival, Diamond Dust - A shifting grammar of originality, Circa Projects, Edinburgh Arts Festival and 21st Century Pop at the ICA, London.

Abstraction is out, and the figure is in; flatness is out, as artists begin to embrace a space that lies somewhere between reality and a digital simulacrum of it.

He had been working all of his life in a style he evolved as a young man which at the same time was changing the face of the art world: Abstract Expressionism (characterized briefly as a form of painting which emphasized gesture in an effort to define the flatness and realness of color and shape as a more integrated realization of the painted space).

As the 20th Century dawned and artists increasingly embraced the essential «flatness» of paintings, the subject itself became increasingly intrinsic to the content of their work.