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.
Al Held, for example, used line etching to render
an illusionistic world of space and form in «Straits of Malacca,» 1987.
They neither function as windows on
an illusionistic world, nor do they foster the absolute agreement of flat image and flat surface basic to, say, a Jasper Johns flag or target.
Not exact matches
Rauschenberg's abandonment of
illusionistic depth effects — whether of conventional representational art or of the abstract expressionists» vast, immeasurable spaces — seems to come in part from an attachment to the physical realities of this
world rather than to the less tangible possibilities of an inner vision.
At that time,
illusionistic abstract works appeared on the walls of major museums and galleries around the
world.
Each of these paintings appears as a suspended four - paned window, literalizing the
illusionistic «window on the
world» offered by traditional, representational painting.
Frank Stella's approach to abstraction evolved from his minimalist geometric works in the early 1960s to gestural «narrative abstraction,» of which this print is an example, with
illusionistic references to forms and shapes of the
world.
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.
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.
Painting also proposes a fictive,
illusionistic space that I employ to bump up against more literal experience of things in the
world.