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.»
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.
Not exact matches
The
spaces herein are not wrought
out of
illusionistic ambiguities, but from plastic certainties.»