Sentences with phrase «illusory paintings»

Richter's illusory paintings find themselves on the walls of the world's most revered museums — for instance, London's Tate Modern displays the Cage (1)--(6), 2006 paintings that were named after experimental composer John Cage and that inspired the balletic «Rambert Event» hosted by Phillips Berkeley Square in 2016.

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The current FedEx logo was shortened from the earlier company name Federal Express and given a new snazzy illusory design element, the background arrow between the «E» and the «x.» Did the company shorten the name to reduce the amount of paint needed for signage on its planes and trucks?

THE WATERCOLOR EFFECT In this illusion by Italian vision scientist Baingio Pinna, a thin, orange contour adjacent to a darker purple contour casts an orange tint over long distances — as though a watery paint was filling in the gaps between the orange lines [see «Illusory Color and the Brain,» by John S. Werner, Baingio Pinna and Lothar Spillmann; SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, March 2007].

With his new solo show, «Time Machine» at Jason Vass, Mark Dutcher seeks to convey through his paintings various subjective and illusory experiences, starting with...

The exhibition showcases work by the two artists that explores and manipulates the illusory flatness of painting in order to alter the viewer's sense of the possible.

Her staining method emphasized the flat surface over illusory depth, and it called attention to the very nature of paint on canvas, a concern of artists and critics at the time.

Aesthetically, the presentation includes Valledor's early expressionist abstract paintings and signature reductive and minimalist compositions with an emphasis on his later hard edge and color - based abstractions from the 1970s and 80s that included illusory and optical constructs exploring space and creating a tension between the two - dimensional and three - dimensional worlds.

Pitched between depicted action and the act of painting - paint's illusory potential and its materiality - Furnas entwines history with art history in provocative combinations of narrative and form.

The exhibition includes several of Andrade's major Op art paintings, which combine hard - edged geometric forms and lines into illusory, and sometimes hallucinatory, compositions.

Reed's entire oeuvre makes it clear that he places the painted image in a structural «in between»: Thus painting becomes, in the artist's cosmos, a normal and real part of our lives as well as a completely artificial and illusory staging.

Toxic - waste tones of green and roiling crimson suppurated between horizontal bands across bodices and skirts, spatted with illusory drips of paint.

Artists Lorser Feitelson (Lorser Feitelson and the Invention of Hard Edge Painting, The Late Paintings, and The Kinetic Series: Works from 1916 - 1923), Karl Benjamin (Karl Benjamin: Paintings from 1950 — 1965, Drawings from 1950 — 1965, Dance the Line: Paintings by Karl Benjamin, and Karl Benjamin and the Evolution of Abstraction) and Helen Lundeberg (Helen Lundeberg and the Illusory Landscape, Infinite Distance — Architectural Compositions by Helen Lundeberg) have each been featured in extensive retrospective exhibitions.

His early expression came in the form of paintings, however, his artistic style soon moved away from illusory media and he embraced constructions in which materiality was central to the work.

This has a crucial effect on the overall pictorial appearance, in that it immediately transforms the planimetric structure of the painted motif into an illusory perception of three - dimensionality within the image.

David Richard Contemporary is pleased to present Elusive Transparencies, a retrospective exhibition of paintings by Julian Stanczak focused exclusively on his illusory «see - through» abstractions, which have been at the core of his art - making practice for the past five decades.

However willing he may be to indulge such romanticized, oversimplified images, like a rainbow, Figueroa ultimately gets the last laugh: depicting this illusory paradise with crude, readily available materials like spray paint and concrete.

These paintings instantly pull the viewer in with their harmonic color palettes and intriguing imagery — the combination of fragmented representational and realist elements alongside pure abstractions that are dream - like surreal moments ranging from optical and illusory to psychedelic and trippy — all provide multiple points of entry, both visually and conceptually.

For Caravaggio, the lack of a detailed background (sacrificing a sense of location for shadows), was a form of «tromp l'oeil» an illusory visual trick, which is designed to persuade the viewer of his painting to believe that a fictional scene is actually occurring right in front of them.

Now and then swastikas appear in his paintings, as to remember the dark past despite the illusory economic recovery.

It's then I unconsciously realize that paintings are more truthful than photographs and photographs are more illusory than paintings.»

«It is as though he [Joan Miro] had decided to condense all that he loves most — women, the night, stars, birds, dewdrops at dawn, into small paintings, while emphasizing the precarious illusory nature of our existence.»

The «Homage» paintings, begun nearly three decades later, create a sense of overlapping colour and an illusory depth and the luminosity of Albers's glass - works.

Glitches, bleeds and mis - registrations rupture the illusory field of the moiré, creating visual noise and also highlight the basic tools at work: taped - off line patterns and paint on canvas.

The illusory effects were, and still are, created by taking advantage of meticulously executed combinations of the vibrational pairings of colors, fluorescent paint, use of line variations, geometric shapes and repeating patterns.

In contrast to the graphic, cartoon - like quality of Essenhigh's early works, the illusory depth of these paintings infuses the figures with a plausibility, yet the works remain true to the sweeping strokes and amorphous forms that have defined Essenhigh's visual vocabulary.

In this painting, the forms stay on the surface without giving way to any particular illusory effect, while holding their place in a bifurcated relationship to one another.

Indeed, for a number of years Tomaselli has embraced the natural world in radiant, highly decorative paintings that make almost no distinction between the illusory and the real, the figurative and the abstract.

I allow the paint to bleed, smudge, peel back at times, which disrupts the illusory or pictorial space, emphasizing the materials and surface instead... the way in which I construct illusions of depth and space, where certain patterns seem to float in front of others, screens of lines that you are looking through, into another internal space.

The artist complicates this in an extraordinary way by making these crude models from aluminum foil using reflected color, the result being an illusory and refracted space that becomes solidified through the process of painting.

When speaking about her process, «My paintings are constructed using a rule - based system to generate a series of interwoven layers of meticulous repeating patterns of dots, dashes, and grids in highly saturated, vibrant and illusory colors.

The hard - edge, geometric compositions from Fleming's current body of work have a strong dialogue with the paintings from the 1960s, as both explore illusory effects and challenge visual perception.

Citing a desire to revisit fifteenth - century Italian painting in which figures are situated within highly detailed architectural spaces, Larsen began to create narrative scenes that upset any sense of the illusory perspectives of traditional representation.

This illusory element also alters how one reads the «paintings» inside the frames.

Drawn and sometimes painted, onto paper or on canvas or linen, the compositions envelop the viewer's entire field of vision and appear at once fragile and monumental, flat and illusory.

Take a good painting of a landscape for example and that painting does not rely on its physical size to deliver its content as much as its illusory relationship, through rendering, suggestion or even evocation, to a known — external — reality.

These are paintings in which rigorous, reductive imagery shifts between flat and illusory.

Julian Stanczak is best known for his illusory «see - through» abstractions and «grid» paintings, which have been at the core of his art - making practice for the past five decades.

The American band, Sonic Youth have a song called «Helen Lundeberg» on their 2006 album Rather Ripped, whose lyrics list the titles of Lundeberg's paintings included in her exhibition Illusory Landscape at Louis Stern Fine Arts.

The resulting paintings are distinguished by shifts between flat planes of colour and an illusory depth.

Inspired by the contour of a favorite chair from her childhood, in combination with a sand painting she recently found in a garage sale, the sculptures explore positioning in space, and real vs. illusory depth, as well as pictorial language in general.

This series of paintings is fresh and exciting with novel compositions and illusory effects that create a tension between the two - dimensional picture plane and three - dimensional space.

Parlour's work possesses multiple paradoxes; the transparent colour in concert with the white ground beneath, creates the illusion that the paintings are in fact screens, and the work is otherworldly, imbued with the artist's illusory and tactile process.

These hybrid images of flat color planes and illusory depth, executed in acrylic, spray paint and computer programs like Photoshop and Illustrator, have a pronounced retinal effect Elrod gets by putting sharp geometric shapes out of focus.

However, once painted, these moments from Liston's life — due in part to their modest scale and a pervasive illusory quality — become surreal vignettes, yet -LSB-.....]

Most stunning of his bird paintings is Plumed Partridge, where these brilliantly colored birds with their intricate feathers are silhouetted against an illusory landscape.

Having studied at Hunter College in New York, Pastine is well rooted in color theory and fully understands the interaction of adjacent colors that yields great illusory effects, giving her paintings a lot of push / pull and maximal vibration.

Echoing a wide range of precursors — from high Constructivism (Alexander Archipenko and Henryk Stażewski), to geometric abstraction's flashier midcentury incarnations (Richard Anuszkiewicz, Victor Vasarely), to the eager swallowing - up of both by the «rad,» spray - paint - besmirched graphic design of the 1980s — the London - based artist's neat, sharp, labor - intensive paintings unite a shallow if convincing illusory depth with a neurotic meticulousness to erect optical labyrinths that both tantalize and deceive.

As the press release states, the work seeks to «invite the beholder to enter into a corporeal relationship with [the paintings], to push off from them, to plunge into them, and so to explore the often enigmatic - seeming illusory space that painterly means have created.»

The blue paintings, predominantly ultramarine, were «tinted» with secondary hues, red or silver, for example, creating an illusory experience of color «aura.»