"Illusionistic" refers to something that creates an illusion or appearance that may not be real or true. It is often used to describe art or performances that use techniques to deceive or trick the viewer's senses or perception.
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In my current paintings, I have reintroduced the idea of
illusionistic space in a way that stays true to the abstract forms that I have been experimenting with for the past 5 years.
A pioneer in painting, Murray's distinctively shaped canvases break with the art - historical tradition
of illusionistic space in two - dimensions.
What appear to be linear marks and ripples made by dragging the stick - end of a brush through wet vinyl paint, like an act of vandalism tearing through a pristine surface, is in fact a tour de force of
illusionistic paint - handling.
With these paintings [at Corbett vs. Dempsey], I am finding ways to make the painting sculptural, to introduce space, but I don't want to do that with
illusionistic depth.
Taylor's «B» is angled to remind us that it has been applied on the flat surface of the picture, not on the door
in illusionistic space; the white drips on the floor could be in the room itself, or a result of his vigorous work on the canvas.
Frank Stella has been recognized for his artistic innovations since the age of 25, when he cast aside the concept of
creating illusionistic space in his canvases in favor of privileging flat surfaces.
With these paintings, I am finding ways to make the painting sculptural, to introduce space, but I don't want to do that
with illusionistic depth.
Its crappy stuff that's difficult to mold
into illusionistic space - no flow, just sticks to the canvas.
Moving back and forth between abstraction and figuration, he has depicted geometrical forms including dots, lines, triangles, square and ellipses, and rhythms of fresh and vivid colors on the pictorial plane, and has created unique,
illusionistic worlds of painting wherein each motif influences and merges into each other while preserving a descriptive quality.
Bridget Riley (b. 1931) is one of the foremost exponents of Op Art, a style that plays with human perception to produce optically
illusionistic works of art.
This allows him to juxtapose not merely individual colors but patterns as well, and to build extremely intricate surfaces that don't play
on illusionistic depth but hold the eye suspended.
His grid - based paintings incorporating rectangles of primary colors were completely divorced
from illusionistic painting.
The separation of image and content is a fundamental tenet of contemporary art, illustrated with work as various
as illusionistic trompe l'oeil painting, architectural ornamentation, and the annual...
All the devices in Stella's new paintings are geared to make picture space feel as if it bites into real space, without
using illusionistic depth.
Faust is widely known for his abstract paintings and sculptures that employ color to convey emotion and meaning, often with the use of
illusionistic effects.
She has written of her interest in «reconciling figurative representation and the formal concerns of creating
illusionistic images on a flat surface.»
Like many of Edge's earlier resin pieces, they are painterly yet have a three - dimensional quality that plays with the tension
between illusionistic painting and literalness of sculpture.
In her new series, Premature, Steinkamp will continue to employ large - scale projections and new media technology to create
illusionistic environments.
Through painting, Maygarden's unique works possess an abstract
illusionistic quality, confounding the viewer with a seemingly computer - generated aesthetic.
This has sort of changed the perspective direction of a lot of post-analog painting, because whereas before, figurative painting functioned as a «window,» a recessive space with the illusion of depth, now there is a push towards
illusionistic projection and forward movement.
As he has noted, his use of «push - pull dynamics and the occasional use of
illusionistic perspective against raw expressionistic brushwork gives the impression of looking deep into the canvas only to be thrust back to the surface.»
Illusion in the trompe - l'oeil sense is not one of my techniques, and the effect is
n't illusionistic.
What connects them all is the mystery of what they refuse to show: rather than the windows of traditional
illusionistic art, these paintings are walls, built up and bricking over an unknown distance beyond.
Since the dawn of civilization, artists have been experimenting with
illusionistic devices meant to trick the eye.
The work simultaneously reflects both traditional
illusionistic pictorial painting and flat non-representational abstraction.
After nearly a decade spent refining his work in jute and canvas, Manish began experimenting with
illusionistic murals, photography, and sculpture.
The solo exhibition will also showcase
illusionistic drawings made with dry pastel and sculptures made of compressed jute, newspaper and old clothes — works that Nai is increasingly earning renown for.
Exploring how to
force illusionistic space out of painting, Stella created the seminal Black Paintings, credited by some as reinventing Modernism and establishing the basis for Minimalism.
In most of Sigurðardóttir's installations some double - edged aspects are apparent: one part
illusionistic surface, the other the physical reality of its construction.
Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity to mediate, to make visible, in a positively
illusionistic way, like a photograph.
This notion of «self - referentiality» is akin to Kazemir Malevich's ideas — both artists found a common enemy in the
traditional illusionistic and representational ideologies of art.
In post-World War II America, the primacy of abstract art was clearly acknowledged, and by 1961, when Norman Rockwell painted The Connoisseur — his visual treatise on the subject juxtaposing Jackson Pollock's nonrepresentational art with his own
illusionistic imagery — Abstract Expressionism had been covered in the popular press for nearly fifteen years.
They feature discs in locations set by Picabia, which in later versions
became illusionistic cylinders, recalling Popeye's cans of spinach.
Shortly after, he discarded his
abstract illusionistic work he had become famed for and moved into a new folk - infused aesthetic, utilising textiles on a monumental scale.
In his words: «I soon arrived at an elementary system of measurements implicit in the geometry of the rectangle which became the basis for simple images that I had deliberately given a somewhat
illusionistic cast.»
His gunpowder, pigment, and pastel drawings of words incorporate industrial typefaces and
illusionistic renderings of text that flow like ribbons or liquid across the paper.
The exhibition not only showcases Schütte's
illusionistic interior schemes, it also reveals the underlying formalist interest in the use of staging and of transformative effects to take painting into the realm of sculpture.
The exhibition title is a play on two simultaneous traditions: the modernist charge to
flatten illusionistic space and the «flat top» hair cut popularized during the Def Jam era of hip hop.
Opening: «Flatlands» at the Whitney Museum of American Art As part of the Whitney Museum's renewed commitment to be a «testing ground for new tendencies in art,» the group exhibition «Flatlands»
offers illusionistic paintings by five emerging artists.
This exhibition consists of
illusionistic compositions — rendered somewhere between meticulous staging techniques, analog processes and digital alterations — manipulate perceptions of space and reality to create photographs that appear as abstract paintings.
The tendency to regard
illusionistic techniques, decorative details, and emotional qualities as distractions and to eliminate them for the sake of the material's integrity is evident in work by such artists as Donald Judd and Carl Andre.
These shows received little notice, but two years later, a 1962 Sidney Janis Gallery exhibition in New York officially launched Pop Art, bringing Thiebaud national recognition, although he disclaimed being anything other than a painter of
illusionistic form.
«Opening» at Baert Gallery comprises five trompe l'oeil abstractions whose geometric compositions appear flat from afar but disclose
illusionistic shading as one approaches.
The artist creates an immersive installation with large - scale paintings that layer historical references and
deep illusionistic landscape space, and small - scale artworks with detailed, highly textured surfaces.
Both renowned artists turned to the projected image in the seventies, highlighting the shifting awareness of spatial perception in the interaction between
illusionistic filmed space and a physical location.
In «Goofy Gloom», the artist plants large white bulbous shapes against a grey nothingness, demonstrating Richter's «
positively illusionistic way».
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