Sentences with phrase «from pictorial depth»

And in the hey day of Modernism, critics like Clement Greenberg pursued a narrative which saw Modernist painting as a «peculiar form of tunnel vision leading away from pictorial depth and compositional complexity towards flatness, all - overness and the absence of association.»

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Surface Truths: Abstract Painting in the Sixties considers the work of 17 artists and the directions they pursued as they moved away from an aesthetic that supported a self - evident creative process to an aesthetic seeking to expunge gesture, pictorial depth and illusion.

Here his white has pictorial presence, pushing up from behind the black line and indicating depth; both paintings breathe.

Also, from the pictorial level, we can establish a certain connection between Chuck Close, Gerhard Richter and Zhang Xiaogang, which enriches the depth of the world of imagery.

The title of the exhibition is taken from the collected essays of Hans Hoffman, who in his essays challenged painting to describe depth in different ways, outside of points and lines, to create pictorial space.

• Types • Origins and History • Stone Age Abstract Painting • From Academic Realism to Abstraction • Kandinsky & Expressionism Demonstrate The Power of Colour • Cubism Rejects Perspective and Pictorial Depth • Suprematism and De Stijl Introduce New Geometric Shapes • Surrealist and Organic Abstraction • Abstract Expressionism - More Colour, No More Geometry • Europe: Art Informel & Tachisme • Op - Art: The New Geometric Abstraction • Postmodernist Abstraction • Famous Collections Resources • Abstract Painters • Abstract Paintings: Top 100 • Abstract Art Movements • Abstract Sculpture (1900 - 2000) • Abstract Sculptors (1900 - 2000)

Inspired by the contour of a favorite chair from her childhood, in combination with a sand painting she recently found in a garage sale, the sculptures explore positioning in space, and real vs. illusory depth, as well as pictorial language in general.

Surface Truths: Abstract Painting in the Sixties considers the work of 17 artists and the directions they pursued as they moved away from an aesthetic that supported a self - evident creative process to an aesthetic seeking to erase gesture, pictorial depth and illusion.

Collage, one of Pablo Picasso's and Georges Braque's innovations, yields a variety of departures, from Max Ernst's mix - and - morph creations to Lee Krasner's cannibalization of her own failed drawings, which she tore up and recombined to create a new kind of pictorial depth.