Sentences with phrase «ineluctable flatness»

«It was the stressing... of the ineluctable flatness of the support that remained most fundamental in the processes by which pictorial art criticized and defined itself under Modernism.

These works are more like some form of sculptural relief than painting per se — they are certainly as far as you can get, physically and theoretically, from Clement Greenberg's notion (contemporary with these works) of «ineluctable flatness.»

It isn't the stability of painting's flatness — its «ineluctable flatness»; it is the inextricable unity of painting's impossible flatness / fullness, stability / instability, stillness / movement.

While Arning's «UIA: Unlikely Iterations of the Abstract» will address contemporary reworkings of modernist ideals and his «Painting: A Love Story» will explore gestural pleasures, Daderko's «Rites of Spring» and «Outside the Lines» (after which the larger project is named) will look past painting's ineluctable flatness via the work of an irreverent progeny of emerging artists from Michele Abeles to Abigail DeVille.