Not exact matches
Schjeldahl writes:» [Thomas»] best acrylics and watercolors
of loosely gridded, wristy daubs are among the most satisfying feats (and my personal favorites)
of the Washington
Color School, a group that included Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, and
others associated with the prescriptive aesthetics
of the critic Clement Greenberg: painting shorn
of imagery, the
illusion of depth, and rhetorical gesture.
Butler writes that Deleget «has never been particularly interested in traditional painting approaches such as wet - on - wet and glazing,
color mixing, or
other techniques that create the
illusion of three dimensionality.
Viewers see a kaleidoscopic play
of color and light, along with multiple views
of their own reflections and those
of the
other viewers looking through the portholes, all creating an
illusion of infinite space and an extraordinary shared experience.
More than many
of White's contemporaries, the artist enjoys the spatial
illusion of paint, creating areas
of color that read completely flat while
other passages extrude and recede, impressions often complicated by the introduction
of objects and her recent experiments with text.
These works may employ disorienting
illusions of depth and flatness, intensely affecting
color, or synesthetic auditory and haptic stimuli to introduce new kinds
of sensory experience that in some cases suggest a utopian vision
of the future and in
others embody critical or ambivalent attitudes towards contemporaneous reality — social, political, and technological.
Combining the use
of colored neon lights, mirrors and
other industrial materials, his light sculptures create spectacular
illusions based depth
of field as a physical representation
of the infinite and the void.
Not only do the ribbons
of paper that activate the work's surface create the
illusion of a range
of color values, there are
other unexpected painterly effects to perceive.
Where
other artists might mix warm
colors that would create the
illusion of light falling on cooler -
colored objects, Krieger cleverly divorces light from object, using thin yellow thread - like lines and fat transparent off - white ones to depict light waves rather than showing the result when they illuminate something else.
The co-director
of Minus Space, Deleget has never been particularly interested in traditional painting approaches such as wet - on - wet and glazing,
color mixing, or
other techniques that create the
illusion of three dimensionality.
As
others have said, attempts at reducing painting down to one essential thing — be it flatness,
illusion or anti-
illusion, or
color — tend to fall flat in front
of the paintings themselves.
Three
of the artists do so by exploiting photographic properties, while the
other three focus on form and the
illusions provided by
color and surface texture.