Sentences with phrase «flatness while»

What counted in a Morris Louis painting, for example, was the way the colours stained the canvas, confirming its flatness while seeming to levitate above it.

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.

Not exact matches

Neither of these stylistic elements are even slightly unique, and they themselves tend to go crippled under flatness that sometimes feels more like laziness, but that they have some degree of inspiration endears on an aesthetic level, while livening things up, with the help of a hopelessly misguided director who cloys, cloys and cloys, and then manages to work in a touch of touching charm.

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.

«Everything that usually serves representation and illusion is left to serve nothing but itself, that is, abstraction; while everything that usually serves the abstract or decorative — flatness, bare outlines, all - over or symmetrical design — is put to the service of representation.

With saturated colors on handmade paper and canvas, Freeman enhances the modernist flatness of her forms, while exploring and pushing the boundaries of minimalism.

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.

While earlier, enamel works focused on line and flatness, her move to oil paint in 2001 has resulted in a sculptural, almost three - dimensional style.

While his unfussy, casual compositions share the pictorial flatness of AbEx, they are resolutely figurative; and while the cartoonish style foreshadowed Pop, Katz eschewed cultural icons for everyday folks, like his wife,While his unfussy, casual compositions share the pictorial flatness of AbEx, they are resolutely figurative; and while the cartoonish style foreshadowed Pop, Katz eschewed cultural icons for everyday folks, like his wife,while the cartoonish style foreshadowed Pop, Katz eschewed cultural icons for everyday folks, like his wife, Ada.

The two - minute version, he says, would be that Greenberg favored «purity, formalism, flatness, overall design, and surface incident» in painting while Rosenberg argued for «the action of the artist on the canvas and the notion of the creative act being the most important aspect of art making, rather than the product.»

How does one make it one's own while respecting its flatness and rectangularity?

While Arning's «UIA: Unlikely Iterations of the Abstract» will address contemporary reworkings of modernist ideals and his «Painting: A Love Story» will explore gestural pleasures, Daderko's «Rites of Spring» and «Outside the Lines» (after which the larger project is named) will look past painting's ineluctable flatness via the work of an irreverent progeny of emerging artists from Michele Abeles to Abigail DeVille.

Realizing this limited value, artists such as Ewa Partum and Sanja Iveković have embodied this flatness in order to explode space, while others like Sondra Perry and Hank Willis Thomas have drawn attention to the history of the advertisement industry's adaptation of black bodies.

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.»

While classic Ab - Ex painters strived to obtain flatness in their work, Szinyova's paintings are all about the process; the steps taken to create depth in layers of paint.

The works on view transcend the categories that separate drawing from sculpture, the human from the nonhuman, and the animated from the static, while experiences of technological devices and flatness lead to fantastic and absurd implications for objects and space.

While artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein investigated the depths of flatness during the Pop Art craze of the 1960s, Pindell had already advanced to explorations of color, form, and structure in her works, testing the boundaries of rectangle - on - wall art.

While their scale and placement suggest actual people, their flatness, lack of color and visible contrivance render them hieroglyphs.

That is, while Louis's dematerialized surfaces convey Greenbergian medium specificity and flatness, Mayer's objects are dimensional accumulations of fabric that mimic another medium, painted folds of drapery.

Indeed, in the early 1960s a new Pop sensibility was emerging not only in London but across Europe: In Frankfurt, for example, Thomas Bayrle was making paintings that celebrated mass production and a sense of flatness, while in Iceland, Érró was producing his own inimitable Pop imagery.

As is typical for paintings from this period, the present work is characterized by the colliding of flatness with the illusion of spatial depth: while the folds in the tablecloth, modulation of the oranges and the cast shadows articulate Hockney's eye for veracity and imply three - dimensionality, the broad, simplified brushstrokes with which the gladiolus and the green backdrop are rendered essentially flatten the composition.

But while these latter exude the deceptive air of being textured, they are in reality characterized by absolute flatness, each stroke of paint being executed with an extremely fine brush of the type commonly employed in the sphere of vehicle bodywork repair.

Other paintings revel in more complex spatial phenomena, while a few rely more on a pronounced flatness.

Likewise, while «Hiroshige I» (2009) and «Ostinato» (2007) exert their lightness and adherent flatness, «Ogee» (2012) and «Hiroshige II (2009),» through their treatment of edges, display their optical effects.

In Creede I and Creede II, both 1961, Stella's signature bands replicate the shape created by the canvas on its stretcher while emphasizing its flatness.

While everyone was flexing their heads about flatness, surface, and edge, Arnoldi was making paintings out of tree branches.

While traditional super PACs produce commercials that approach pancake - level flatness, wrapping political campaigns up in subtle messaging risks it being dismissed by those who aren't versed in, or don't care about, the conceptual language of the art world (see: a large portion of the American public.)

It evokes the type of illustration you would find on a paperback copy of A Brave New World, or something similarly utopian tinged with science fiction while referencing the myopic, single - minded vision of a Rubin's vase — a flatness that depends on a limited psychology, though not without depth.

This process energized him to paint broadly, while blocking out forms, adding colors, and omitting details — all in the service of augmenting the pictorial flatness and stillness he admired so much in the original source material.

These early works emphasized the flatness of the picture plane while remaining representational, and this insistence on figuration placed him outside the contemporary avant - garde mainstream, in which abstraction and chance were key qualities.

A few elements I've evinced from Smith's past exhibitions and around the city (including his painted - directly - on - the - wall installation at Deitch in Long Island City): gestural subject matter (fish, leaves, his name), seriality (in canvas size, subject matter, and hanging — like his 2011 show at Luhring Augustine featured panel grids), synthesized flatness and depth (the mixed - media compositions in his 2009 show Currents resembled large - scale flatbed scans, while neighboring canvases maintained every brushy, gloopy instance of Smith's hand).

Wound together, the pictures I make float in and out of illusory space while simultaneously denoting flatness of their plane materiality.

The paintings in the «Ocean Park» series do have a flatness to them, as has all his work, yet at the same time the space in them is finely nuanced, oscillating between the sensation of looking down, as in an aerial view, while at the same time looking straight ahead, suggesting a doorway, a space we can enter.

The stolid, deliberately primitive flatness of Swimmer belies the cheekiness of a butt crack exposed by sagging swim trunks, possibly unbeknownst to the white man it belongs to, who diffidently covers his naked torso with his arms while chatting with an outgoing black woman standing uninhibited in a teensy bikini.

Put another way: If Kenneth Noland and co. were investigating different ways of acknowledging the frame, while taking the flatness - solution (for acknowledging the picture plane) for granted, maybe it is time to look at the other side of that equation.

While Stella, once he broke from the mold of Greenbergian flatness, could equate presence only with volume and visual weight, Bonnefoi's response to the same strictures was an emphasis on thinness and on the absence of physical weight; an excess of both material and metaphorical lightness.

Regarding flatness over this period, the Lyman and Johnson paper referenced by Judith says this: «In recent years, from 2004 to 2011, while the upper ocean is not warming, the ocean continues to absorb heat at depth (e.g., Levitus et al. 2012; von Schuckman and Le Traon 2011), here estimated at a rate of 0.56 Wm2 when integrating over 0 — 1800 m.» That 0.56 Wm2 figure is again pretty close to what the Balmeseda et al. reanalysis produces.