As the artist noted, «I see the plank as existing between two worlds, the floor representing the physical world of standing objects, trees, cars, buildings, [and] human bodies,... and the wall representing the world of the imagination,
illusionist painting space, [and] human mental space.»
Not exact matches
Characterized by intuitive and loose
paint handling, spontaneous expression,
illusionist space, acrylic staining, process, occasional imagery, and other painterly techniques, the abstract works included in this exhibition sing with rich fluid color and quiet energy.
Publicly Martin tended to deny a direct connection with other minimalists, possibly because she was older or because she had taken exception to the dogmatism of Donald Judd, a highly vocal sculptor who argued that
painting was a doomed «
illusionist» enterprise that could never satisfy the minimalist prescription to generate only «specific objects» in «real
space».
Stella made emphatically flat
paintings, which sought to excise
illusionist space from the picture.