Sentences with phrase «illusionistic paint»

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.

These pictures read as both abstractions — dots on a flat canvas, and deep illusionistic paintings of the night sky.

«Dimensions Variable» also features the artist's hand - constructed frames, suggesting a threshold for the subjects of the paintings to come forward, into «real life», as they visually oscillate between the foreground and background of the illusionistic painting.

He began building his works so that they would project off the wall, combining illusionistic painted space with real space.

Though Stella, like Richard Serra, is not shy of scale, the overarching issue here is not the presence of focused materiality but the potential for material to form an open - ended Baroque extension, the consequence being that an illusionistic painting now exists in real space.

These two approaches articulated very early on in its history this kind of work's almost paradoxical dynamic: that one can read a monochrome either as a flat surface (material entity or «painting as object») which represents nothing but itself, and therefore representing an ending in the evolution of illusionism in painting (i.e. Rodchenko); or as a depiction of multidimensional (infinite) space, a fulfillment of illusionistic painting, representing a new evolution — a new beginning — in Western painting's history (Malevich).

While artists such as Vija Celmins, Rudolf Stingel and Paul Sietsema employ illusionistic painting and drawing, others» use of materials is surprising — Thomas Demand's video of what appears to be a rainstorm is made from animated candy wrappers; Susan Collis» sculpture of construction debris is fashioned from exotic hardwoods, mother of pearl and silver.

Asked about his recent departure from purely illusionistic painting, Cockrill remarks: «I'm just experimenting... it's almost like, I don't know whether it's the work, or the fact that I've changed, but there's a lot of curiosity about this and what am I doing and where am I going, and I don't know.

In his geometry - infused, packing - store tape assemblages, Garry Noland addresses the long history of illusionistic painting that employ the trompe l'oeil techniques of Renaissance and Baroque painters.

These illusionistic paintings evoked rhythm and an underlying musicality, yet a move toward Abstract Expressionism would introduce an even greater presence of the artist's psyche is his work.

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.

His grid - based paintings incorporating rectangles of primary colors were completely divorced from illusionistic painting.

The hugely influential Latvian - born artist, Vija Celmins, stunned the art world in the 1970s with her beautiful and illusionistic paintings of nature in tonal gradations of gray.

Quadratura Illusionistic Painting Technique, Trompe L'Oeil Ceiling Fresco Murals.

Richter describes his preoccupation with bird's - eye views of cities as «abandonment of the concept of interesting content and illusionistic painting; a spot of paint should be a spot of paint, and the motif needn't have a message or allow for interpretation.

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.

Not exact matches

From illusionistic, or trompe l'oeil (trick of the eye), paintings to more ephemeral and conceptual gestures, these artworks challenge what we see and prompt us to appreciate and even enjoy experiences of dissonance.

I wasn't satisfied with a painted illusionistic texture and so I carefully extruded thin thread - like lines of oil paint out of a little plastic bag to re-create the three - dimensional terry cloth texture that I desired.

Various facets of his more recent white - primed rhomboids and diamonds are painted behind, or in front, in bright, saturated hues creating a fascinating play between literal and illusionistic depth.

By the late 1960s, as in works such as the frond - like Etude, 1969, Hantaï allows the primed, raw canvas to play a role equal to the painted sections, and is always at pains to keep illusionistic passages at bay.

Various facets of his new white - primed rhomboids and diamonds are painted behind, or in front, in bright, saturated hues creating a fascinating play between literal and illusionistic depth.

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.

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 the 20th century, it was impossible to get away from the notion that the canvas or the painted surface was no longer beholden to illusionistic depth,» he tells me.

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.

If it's done well, like in the work of [Francisco de] Zurbaran or [Jean Baptiste Siméon] Chardin, then the painting is also working on this illusionistic level that is almost sinister in its awareness of you.

In her compositions Jebavy often includes glassware forms that call to mind other Baroque artworks, such as Bernini's expansive Baldachin in St. Peter's Cathedral, or illusionistic Italian ceiling paintings and cathedrals, building altar - like architectural spaces that are at once intimate, domestic, and banal, and monumental, metaphysical, and transcendental.

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.

Each piece traverses a terrain that is both physically present and illusionistic, a smeared dichotomous zone, which Iva Gueorguieva has explored extensively in her collaged paintings and works on paper.

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.

Other paintings here by Chambers feature less of an illusionistic space.

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.

On view in PC — G's Reilly Gallery, this group 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.

Working in stainless steel, glass, copper, stone or paint on plaster, he employs subtle illusionistic devices, instigating a play of depth that remains consistent from piece to piece.

Inasmuch as actual physical parts form shapes and surfaces to be painted, Stella's rich illusionistic mix has pushed composition outward from the wall, while retaining the idea of pictorialism in the use of pattern and gesture to create an anomalous fictive space on any given surface.

These renderings are then executed in acrylic paint and overlaid with enlarged drawings painted with a vinyl paint that alternately reinforces the illusionistic space of the painting and calls to attention the physical reality of the paintings» two - dimensional linen support.

A pioneer in painting, Murray's distinctively shaped canvases break with the art - historical tradition of illusionistic space in two - dimensions.

Maine's use of carefully chosen pre-existing materials deployed in the «real» space found just in front of the supporting wall sculpturally counters the illusionistic tendencies of painting while clearly echoing painterly concerns with color and structural relationships.

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.

A series of lithographs, like Pet Stains, 1990, hark back to Synthetic Cubism: puddles of black paint mark a stack of trompe l'oeil newspapers so as to create a tension between flat representation and illusionistic space.

Here, however, each layer of paint is applied from the far edges of the canvas working inward toward the center, thus resulting in an illusionistic depth, the lighter tones of the composition acting as a framing device.

Remember when it was illegal to put a frame around a painting because it turned physical material into an illusionistic picture?

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.

The device is a trope for the contradiction intrinsic to painting, simultaneously flat and illusionistic.

Indeed, as I slice my white perspective lines into the painstakingly crafted, illusionistic surface of the painting, I hear the question that is asked of me so often: «why do you have to ruin the landscape, it's so beautiful.»

In 1949, the then Queen bought two paintings from it; Hockney's Tea Painting in an Illusionistic Style and The Third Love Painting were in the 1962 exhibition, now both in the Tate Collection; Hirst's fifth and sixth «Medicine Cabinets» were in the 1989 iteration, bought by Charles Saatchi.

Her collaged paintings, works on paper, and sculptures traverse a terrain that is both physically present and illusionistic.

If we adopt the screen then as the emblem of the contemporary optic, we presumably regard contemporary painting as somehow marking a return to a quasi-classical conception of its task as one of illusionistic affect... The intelligence lies in suggesting that materiality can persist as a key affective dimension of painting only if its terms are re-written... Recent paintings, like Michael Stubbs's work towards a diminished materiality, resulting in something more akin to the continuous surface associated with the varnished skin of an Old Master painting than to the opaque porosity of a Hofmann or Still.

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.

Here a dynamic structure is achieved through the juxtaposition of a large monochromatic star motif painted directly on the wall against a backdrop of loose, free flowing technique on papersheets rearranged by the artist to engage the viewer into the depths of illusionistic space.