She has written of her interest in «reconciling figurative representation and the formal concerns of creating
illusionistic images on a flat surface.»
They are painted in a trompe l'oeil manner with the picture plane serving literally as a flat surface and
these illusionistic images are cross referenced with their physically real counterparts strung throughout the gallery.
Not exact matches
There is a well - worn narrative of twentieth century painting that goes like this: From Cezanne to Picasso to Pollock, the
illusionistic space of painting flattened more and more until the picture plane and the surface created by the paint itself became the primary subject matter, eliminating
images altogether in favor of abstraction.
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.
The
image is built from precisely balanced muted colours and glossy details against a background of pure red to give an
illusionistic depth that is both vertiginous and seductive.
Painted in 1934 and purchased the following year, Paranoiac - astral
Image was one of the earliest paintings by Dalí, today the most popular master of
illusionistic Surrealism, to enter the collection of an American museum.
The juxtaposition of disparate
images with graphic renderings in an ambiguous,
illusionistic space in Burns to Breathe (Got ta Have a Better Attitude)(2014, 40 x 38.5 inches) recalls the «inscapes» of Surrealist painter Roberto Sebastián Matta, who combined unexpected imagery with unconventional painting techniques to create fantastic landscapes intended as landscapes of the mind.
While from a distance (or reproduced in
images) my paintings may seem
illusionistic, the technique denies neither the physical texture of the paint nor the flat surface of the canvas.
Martin Weinstein (NYC) creates paintings on 3 - 5 sheets of plexiglass layered together to form an
image of
illusionistic depth; he interprets this special theatre by depicting the same scene multiple times, and by inserting discontinuous elements... a reminder of the tenuous nature of reality itself.
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.»
The recent series «ZOE» are photographic
images that deceive the eye and transform perception in an
illusionistic process.
While Lawrence employed photography and
illusionistic devices in his constructions, Gauthier incorporates photographic enlargements of installations in her mixed - media works, combining these
images with encaustic and graphite on wood.
These abstract canvases are then overlaid with
illusionistic motifs taken from, among other
images, Baroque painting, Hollywood studio advertisements, televised war coverage, and political propaganda.
They neither function as windows on an
illusionistic world, nor do they foster the absolute agreement of flat
image and flat surface basic to, say, a Jasper Johns flag or target.
For this show, if I had to choose between 2
images, I chose the one that was more pictorial, sensational,
illusionistic, glamorous, humanistic, funny, sexual, quarrelsome, violent, ugly, etc. etc..
After 1930 many surrealists undertook a more literal,
illusionistic rendering of dream
images.
Minimalist art eliminated figurative
images and
illusionistic pictorial space and replaced them with a single
image, often composed of smaller segments organized in a grid pattern.