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.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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 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.
His 1964 essay «Specific Objects» is considered a manifesto for Minimalist sculpture, advocating artists whose works inhabited the actual
space of the viewer rather than the
illusionistic space of traditional
painting and sculpture.
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.
Painting with airbrushed acrylic on nylon mesh or Mylar has the effect of layering illusionistic space on top of the painting's actual, materia
Painting with airbrushed acrylic on nylon mesh or Mylar has the effect
of layering
illusionistic space on top
of the
painting's actual, materia
painting's actual, material
space.
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.»
«By the 1970s, thanks largely to formalist critics like Clement Greenberg and Donald Judd,
painting had been flattened and emptied
of figures, subject matter and
illusionistic space....
In New York, the smaller Parisian formats were quickly associated with fussy
illusionistic spaces, and in an eagerness not to miss the train
of Greenberg's seductive theories, too many American painters fell for his Kantian logic
of progress in art and the eventual critical endgame
of the death
of painting that followed.
As New York painters were progressively rejecting
illusionistic space and moving toward a more literal
space and bigger formats — which would logically lead a few years later to Donald Judd's rejection
of painting in favor
of sculptural
space — the concept
of le tableau continued to provide a conceptual framework to painters within the French idiom that would allow
painting to evolve without losing the basic elements
of its identity.
Using the language
of abstract
painting and the modernist grid, the pieces reflect into an
illusionistic space without fully relinquishing their sense
of physicality.
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.
As in the best Hodgkin
paintings, a tension arises from the precarious balance
of illusionistic space and the purely abstract, tactile richness
of the surface.
Tracing the archaeology
of the
paintings in the sculptural formations that accrue on their edges creates a dynamic contrast between the
illusionistic interior
spaces opened up within the compositions and the frank materiality
of the gesso boards as objects hanging on the wall.
Richter began
painting on photographs in 1989 as a way
of joining seemingly opposing values: the tactile
paint mark that is actually abstract and the
illusionistic depiction
of real
space created by the action
of light on film.
Working like the Roman god, Vulcan, forging calderas and caverns with deep, rock - like chasms
of paint, Berg's
illusionistic space offers no horizon, only an ever - changing, tumultuous world where time and
space are uncertain.
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.
In Paris he became a confirmed abstractionist; in his work
illusionistic space in figurative
paintings yielded to uptilted planes and increasingly to a Cubist fracturing
of the picture plane.
In
paintings such as Architectural Variation
of 1949, Bolotowsky exorcised all suggestions
of illusionistic space.
Painting also proposes a fictive,
illusionistic space that I employ to bump up against more literal experience
of things in the world.
This ruse became the perfect rabbit hole into the
illusionistic pictorial
space of my tulle veil
painting.
These works often demonstrated her keen interest in how
paintings function in a given room and used
illusionistic techniques to extend the plane
of a wall or floor directly into the
space of her pictures.
How do you keep the
painted relationships in an abstract
painting JUST spatial / pictorial — neither depictive, descriptive, suggestive
of illusionistic, figurative, atmospheric
space; nor literal, one layer on top
of another (even though they are), or flatly adjacent?
Both the gestural and literal carvings cut up the
painting and further adds to the tension between
illusionistic space and the reality
of the
paintings» physical surface.