He enclosed vast panoramas in abstract lines of color that created an oscillation between pure painting at the edges and moments of
illusionistic space at the center of the work.
Not exact matches
The haunting
spaces of the observatory in Jaipur and of the pavilions
at Fatehpur Sikri led to renewed experiment with
illusionistic representation of architectonic volumes.
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.
I tend to layer one element
at a time, perhaps unconsciously as I make decisions, and those layers end up collapsing what would otherwise be
illusionistic space.
In Imprint (2006), within which two women seem to meld into one, malleable form, Yuskavage interprets the flat,
illusionistic space of bas - relief sculpture through the use of close color and punctuations of extreme contrast
at the points of human contact.
Geometric symmetry was helpful to him because, as he put it, it «forces
illusionistic space out of the painting
at constant intervals by using a regulated pattern.»
In «Chromatic Geometries,» her seventh solo exhibition
at Arden Gallery, Mattera has decisively moved away from the layered, atmospheric approach of earlier «Silk Road» and «Vicolo» series to explore, with her customary virtuosity, the possibilities of figure - ground relationships and the
illusionistic space conjured by dividing the square into two horizontal rectangles.