Sentences with phrase «flatness of the picture plane»

[3] Flatness of the picture plane came from the evolution of modernism which started with Manet, and was of utmost importance to Greenberg, who observed it as the unique and exclusive pictorial trait.

The resulting flatness of the picture plane is broken only by two vertical overtures in the form of long slashes on the top left and center right sections of the painting.

A key element in his vocabulary is the disruptive kink he will admit into his patterning that sets it off kilter; never quite subverting the flatness of the picture plane, he nonetheless allows a breeze or ripple to run across the composition.»

The flatness of the picture plane is no more a truth than was the flatness of the world before Columbus.

Derived from process - driven felt tip drawings, Allen's signature motifs — Art Deco - inspired pinwheels of light, comic - like speech bubbles, and rainbow arches — combine the geometry of semi-architectural forms with the flatness of the picture plane.

His best drawings combine enormous volume with a total respect for the flatness of the picture plane.

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.

Work in the exhibition ranges from deceptively simple, geometric work that consciously embraces the flatness of the picture plane, to those using complex interactions of planar -LSB-...]

Here, that means not the flatness of a picture plane, but monumental balls of twine and the clothing they perhaps ought to have produced.

William Steiger's work often focuses on the relationship between the past and present, and the tension between the flatness of the picture plane and the expanse of the American landscape.

Nonetheless, Greenberg maintained that this advancement from subject matter towards the flatness of the picture plane was part of a continuum — an evolution that began with Manet, who he held created the first «Modernist pictures,» and saw its flowering in Abstract Expressionism.

After a trip to Paris he began trialling means of destroying the flatness of the picture plane, adding texture to surfaces to create his catrami (tars) and muffe (moulds), and armatures to canvases for the gobbi (hunchbacks).

He toys with illusions of three - dimensionality, but the vibrant color and decorative patterns prevail, reinforcing the flatness of the picture plane.

In the late»60s, Scully started using tightly painted vertical or horizontal stripes, and he subsequently employed painted bands both to weave spatial effects by placing one block of strips on top of another and to reassert the flatness of the picture plane.

Returning to many of the same themes and motifs throughout her career, she creates all - over compositions that appear both representational and abstract, calling attention to the flatness of the picture plane and the process of building an image.

Formally speaking, Dumas's paintings or self - described «vehicles» emphasize the flatness of the picture plane, while still asserting the sculptural concreteness of these visual objects.

Despite their avowed differences, here is a moment in the mid-1960s when Greenberg, Stella, and Warhol all agree with each other on a central issue: the flatness of the picture plane must be upheld.

These paintings were both an assault on and acknowledgement of high Modernism's insistence on the flatness of the picture plane.

It's a difficult thing since I want both to create depth with one continuous gesture and maintain the flatness of the picture plane.

He has gone on to produce a major body of work that shuns the flatness of the picture plane replacing it with a divergent mix of high and low art materials that are bolshy and strident, elegant and considered, yet seldom demure.

Not content with the flatness of the picture plane, the artist strives for three - dimensionality.

The deliberately artificial nature of his work, emphasizing the flatness of the picture plane, further emphasized by metallic or fluorescent paints, won considerable attention.

In a manner similar to that employed by Mondrian as well as by contemporary minimalist artists, Martin's use of grids asserts the flatness of the picture plane and suggests a meditative spirituality.

The constructed allusion of space repeatedly draws back to the flatness of the picture plane as the viewer's eyes travel across the paintings, moving through time and space.

In painting, for instance, there is a natural and proper tendency to focus on its inherent two - dimensional character: that is, the flatness of the picture plane.

Between them, they jettisoned many of the traditional concepts of composition, space, volume and depth, allowing the flatness of the picture plane to take centre stage.

A leading theoretician of formalist doctrine, Greenberg maintained that the key impulse of Modernism was to strip art to essentials - in the case of paintings, to shapes and colors that affirmed «the flatness of the picture plane.»

By soaking the synthetic paint directly into the raw canvas, Morris stained the fibers of the cotton itself, thus merging figure and support, and, to the delight of Modernist critic Clement Greenberg, emphasizing the flatness of the picture plane and the essential qualities of the medium.