Through painting, Maygarden's unique works possess an abstract
illusionistic quality, confounding the viewer with a seemingly computer - generated aesthetic.
Her oil paintings possess
illusionistic qualities, hence «optical art.»
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.