Sentences with word «illusionism»

(Maastricht, Netherlands) The theme of illusionism in art guides «Illusion and Revelation», group show on view in the Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht since December last year.

They are abstract illusions without the cheap schtick of Abstract Illusionism.

This recent group of volumes has been a pleasure as I play with illusionism, very different from most of my other textile work and closer to my painting.

James Havard — a pioneer in abstract illusionism, demonstrates a unique visual plane, utilizing spray paint on an unconventional painting surface - plastic.

DJ: Two things were going on in the painting: some of the earlier ones were organic and had curved lines; secondly, they were illusionistic to some extent, and I very steadily got tired of both things and tried to get rid of spatial illusionism, but I couldn't get rid of it.

In New York in the 1960s, Judd was among the first in a group of artists who challenged notions of subjectivity and pictorial illusionism by creating art from industrial processes and materials.

Moving between illusionism and surface, the space seems to expand and contract.

The works are rendered in a dynamic style that at once denies and promotes traditional painterly illusionism, thus reflecting the creative visions at stake during this watershed moment.

Influenced by Clement Greenberg's theory of picture - plane flatness, and with an innate desire to reduce the medium of painting to its basic attributes, the Robert Ryman sought to do away with pictorial illusionism all together.

Cubism was the most influential art movement of the 20th century: it radically destroyed traditional illusionism in painting, revolutionized the way we see the world (as Juan Gris said), and paved the way for the pure abstraction that dominated Western art for the next 50 years.

His talents lie not in a facility for tromp l'oeil illusionism, but in his ability to create a powerful sign language from the remnants that society has little use for.

Comprising more than 40 paintings and a related group of drawings, prints and other Dalí ephemera, «Salvador Dalí: The Late Work» will also explore the artist's enduring fascination with science, optical effects and illusionism as well as his connections to such artists of the 1960s and 1970s as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Willem de Kooning.

Daybook: Exploring photographic illusionism via intricate arrangements of painted wood blocks.

Rejecting illusionism and subjective expression, these artists shared a collective interest in exploring the essential, objective forms and properties of art.

«This removal from the... read more... «Christine Gray's failed geometry, failed architecture, and failed illusionism»

7 In actuality, however, Rauschenberg played a bit more daringly with the spatial effects engendered by photography, pressing photographs (and fine art reproductions) into service as markers of perspectival illusionism so as to pit them against the Combines» otherwise flatbed expanses (not unlike the manner in which he utilized the actual openings he sometimes incorporated into such works).

as a departure point, Ikon's exhibition explores Flavin's straightforward rejection of illusionism whilst asserting the importance of the context of artistic experience over art for art's sake.

A new exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art is rescuing the panorama from the historic abyss, and revalorizing its intoxicating technological illusionism with an installation by artist T. J. Wilcox.

The problem of academic illusionism is that it implies a sculptural space.

While Held moves illusionism inward, Marcaccio builds outward with literal collage, encrustations, and paint, occasionally trapping pockets of illusion.

DeLap was included in the two shows that helped to define the Minimalist movement — Primary Structures at the Jewish Museum (1966) and American Sculpture of the Sixties at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1967)-- and his work brilliantly merges the austerity of Minimalism with Op art illusionism.

About illusionism and its limits, Gober's work plumbs banality for its mysteries in the manner of Marcel Duchamp and Jasper Johns.

Trompe l'oeil, sometimes called illusionism, is a French term that means «to trick the eye.»

Refuting Noël Carroll's statement that the semiotic theory of illusion overestimates the power of representations, Wheatley follows the arguments of Baudry, Richard Allen's projective illusionism and Gregory Currie's impersonal imagining to argue that, while watching a film, the spectator is unaware of their actual relationship between the cinematic apparatus and their position as a viewer unless the film forces them to be aware of it.

Unlike Maddin, though, Mandico doesn't revel in the joys of cheapness: Wild Boys looks impossibly expensive at times, sea storm sequences and all, its Sternbergian opulence the polar opposite of the scratchy punk illusionism you might expect from this kind of utterly marginal cinema.

Achieving illusionism doesn't mean you have to be tight.

From the clinical isolation of Latrobe's rattlesnake to the contrived illusionism of Roesen's flowers, the most earnest efforts toward realism in our still - life painting seem to have pushed us further from a truthful engagement with nature.

I wouldn't put these in an abstract expressionist camp; like Gomez's, there's a photographic, calculated illusionism makes them look magically impressionistic at first and less interesting upon further inspection.

Abstract illusionism comes to mind, with painters such as James Havard airbrushing shadows under squiggles of paint.

The former approach dramatically foreshortened, but did not expunge, the allusive capabilities of art; the latter put illusionism — and, with it, metaphor — out to pasture, abjuring poetry for literalism.

Viewers confront his personal experiences and perceptions, mixed with history and myth, transformed into a space that conflates western perspective with eastern illusionism.

I'm not after illusionism.

He embraced the European tradition of pictorial illusionism while employing decidedly low or «pop» imagery.

Its artistic strategy was the self - conscious overturning of the conventions of bourgeois realism -LSB-...] the antirationalist, antirealist, antibourgeois program of modernism -LSB-...] the modernists, carrying the torch of romanticism, taught us that linearity, rationality, consciousness, cause and effect, naïve illusionism, transparent language, innocent anecdote, and middle - class moral conventions are not the whole story.

Many of his drawings are based on appropriated photographs; in their deceptive illusionism, these drawings challenge the value placed on original creations and argue for the appreciation of mimetic reproduction.

As Newman captured «streaks of light» in his zips, De Luca captures the atmosphere of contemporary light and color derived from varying visual sources such as advertisement and mass media, conflating modernist abstraction with contemporary illusionism and sensational effects.

In addition, the suggestive, sinuous shapes in Hofmann's paintings of this type have echoes of Joan Miró's animated, evocative, but essentially abstract images, frequently exhibited works that pointed the way for many of the New York artists that Hofmann was associated with to explore Surrealist ideas without resorting to the high illusionism and literal approach of Ernst or Salvador Dali.

She accepted Duchamp's challenge to interrogate illusionism and the questionable presence of symbolism in modern painting; and at the same time Bergman's own confidence in a personal vision of painting on her own terms gained the upper hand in this series.

In 1967, she went so far as to write a letter to Artforum, challenging Judd and Morris for asserting that sculpture was the preferred art form for resisting illusionism and the «death of painting.»

«Not only is this the first exhibition dedicated to De Mura, but it also signals the last manifestation of the highly evolved and refined illusionism of the late Baroque age before the advent of the revolutionary simplicity of Neo-classicism.

Judd took aim at what he saw as the continuing illusionism of European modernism, pursuing instead a purely lucid form that would exist simply as an object.

This is illusionism at its finest — refined down to a beautiful binary of black and white.

Utilizing the modern computer - aided methods of tapestry, Close is now able to approximate, in woven images, the mirror - like illusionism characteristic of the 19th Century photographic glass daguerreotype.

Without any kind of shading, rendering, or cross-hatching, Matisse is layering space without illusionism; the eye is always savoring surface and different internal juxtapositions.

Written about by influential critics (Judd, Lippard), and shown in prominent galleries (Martha Jackson, Pace), Lukin's work fused the Juddian «specific object» with hard - edge painting, geometric illusionism, the exuberant palette of Pop, and a feeling for sensual curving forms that exuded a playful eroticism.