"Flattened space" refers to a concept in physics where we imagine a space without any curves or bends. It is a simplified way of thinking about space where objects can move freely and in straight lines, similar to how they would move on a completely flat surface like a table.
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Yun - Fei Ji has employed the stacked perspective and
flattened space of classical Chinese painting throughout his career, reinvigorating this traditional style as a means of contemporary storytelling.
Herve Di Rosa's painting «Graffiti» (2005) is a de Chirico - inspired vision of Miami that
flattens the space with a kind of brutal geometry, while Gregory Curry's floating, intestinal organ drifts through a landscape like a metaphor for abstraction lost in the wilderness of post-modernity.
Lee has a keen eye
for flattened space and an odd penchant for tropical fruits that appear at inopportune, witty moments.
Non-naturalistic colors, details reduced to thick lines, and
flattened space push indexical photographic images toward abstraction.
All these subjects she rendered with a modernist's flair for heightened color, vigorous brushwork, and simplified,
often flattened spaces.
The works on view use color, touch, music, spectacle, light, and darkness to confound expectations,
flattening space through animation and abstraction, or heightening the illusion of three dimensions.
Nina Chanel Abney's bold, scratch - and - chop approach in her raucous paintings
similarly flattens space, pushing to the fore her subjects and emphasizing the frenzied pace of life in the 21st century.
Abandoning linear formats in favor of color fields, the Bursts are steeped in the dualities of sky and ground, heaven and earth, as Gottlieb juxtaposed two fundamental elements afloat in a
monochromatic flattened space.
The compressed and
flattened space of his early paintings gave way to illusions of deep, cavernous space, for example in his imaginary landscapes and seascapes, such as Un Sospiro di un onda.
The images challenge the notion of how to make a line or create a new posture
for flattened space or abstract composition, swivelling from geometry to gesture, propelling representation and language into abstraction, exploring pictorial edges and boundaries as well as the constitutive or disruptive role of blank space,.
Photographed in Nico's studio, these modern still lifes are subsequently digitally reworked: He's especially interested in the «transformative power of the photograph to
flatten space and confuse perspective, and uses digital manipulation to heighten these factors.
Her use of pattern and decoration merges representational elements with abstraction, suggesting optical effects that create depth or
flatten space.
I blame it on seeing, as a teenager, reproductions of Piet Mondrian's tree paintings from the early 1910s: ever - thickening patterns of branches that
flattened space, an evolution from figuration to some sort of Platonic essence of tree.
Cwynar is a graphic artist by day, and fine artist by night, and its shows; her works flex their power to expand and
flatten space in layers of built - up and re-photographed collaged images.
He then eliminated pictorial depth for a field of color in the 1950s, calling the works Magical Space Forms to recognize the importance of
the flattened space.
Though strongly tied to the Fauvist method of
flattening space, simplifying form and employing color to reveal the subject, Carles's paintings almost prophesize Abstract Expressionism.
On Friday, April 6, 2018 at 6 p.m., exhibiting photographer James Casebere will discuss Constructed Photography; on Saturday, April 14, 2018, at 5 p.m., exhibiting photographer Iwan Baan converses with architectural historian, curator, writer and critic William Menking; and on Friday, April 20, 2018 at 6 p.m., architect Lee H. Skolnick, photographer Ralph Gibson and curator Therese Lichtenstein will discuss «
Flattened Space.»
Sharp edges, clear definition of
flattened space and forms are characteristic of the American painter's work.
Feitelson's oil and enamel on burlap paintings feature geometric planes of uniform color with
flattened space, smooth paint application and simplified forms.
Exaggerated form, strong outline and
flattened space are among Hartley's signature strategies.
The black masses, all joined, fill the canvas plane to create a sense of activity within
the flattened space.
As a rebuttal to abstract expressionism's gestural brushwork, Feitelson's paintings from this period balance simplified forms with
flattened space and smooth paint application.
At first he painted a series of table top still lifes, simply composed of a few objects placed in
a flattened space with a strong color pattern.
Here, the woman's arms, legs, and breasts are presented as abstract shapes in
a flattened space.
The bold, simplified forms of the matchbox, safety razor, and fountain pen showcase Gerald Murphy's training in mechanical drawing, as well as his interest in
the flattened space of cubist painting.
Larsen's paintings have a purposeful naiveté, a quality that is also prevalent in the works of younger painters including Jonas Wood and Avery Singer, who are known for works that
flatten space and figures.