The drawings, which seem to breathe
into the pictorial space and capture the tension between chance and intentionality like the philosophical action of the Zen «ensō.»
A desire to dig deeper
into pictorial space, coupled with her careful study of Cézanne, especially his practice of drawing with colour, led to a new structure — the introduction of planes formed by the junction of intersecting verticals and diagonals — and of colours and contrasts.
«Malevich is monumental not for what he put
into pictorial space,» writes Schjeldal, «but for what he took out: bodily experience, the fundamental theme of Western art since the Renaissance.»
Easel painting was intimate and required the viewer to slowly lean
into the pictorial space; large compositions immediately confronted the onlooker from afar.
Not exact matches
Indeed, as early as Origen in the third century it was being pointed out that we must not think of the Ascension as a movement in
space; and in fact Luke seems to have translated
into mythical form, i.e. a
pictorial narrative, the universal belief of the early Church that Jesus has ascended to the throne of God, not in a physical manner but in the sense that he has been exalted to Lordship over all the world.
Lisa Sigal brings architecture and painting
into dialogue by creating a series of physically inaccessible rooms that can only be viewed as
pictorial spaces.
His kaleidoscopic compositions of overlapping grids and patterns create complex
pictorial spaces, and his use of transparent pigments allows the viewer to see, as the artist has said, «all the events that went
into the making of the painting.»
They stare out of
pictorial space into an unknown distance, with their detached gazes separated from the viewer's own perusal of them.
«Highway to Heaven is part of a series of works where I dissect the nature of
pictorial space by attempting to translate it
into three dimensions.
She has continually shifted the terms of her practice, incorporating figuration, abstraction, digital techniques and gestural mark - making
into compositions that confound expectations of
pictorial space.
In the mural - size Shaking Out the Bed, figures, seen perhaps from the side, maybe lying down, reaching to the painting's right side to the dials there to adjust perspectival vantage point, appear from above, slip
into different
pictorial spaces, or try to get outside the frame.
John Weightman as Francis Bacon: Full Face and in Profile, Oxford 1983, pl.101 (col.) H. Platschek, «Francis Bacon: Alle Kunst ist Instinkt», Art: Das Kunstmagazin, no. 10, Oct. 1984, p. 34 (col.) Wieland Schmied, Francis Bacon: Vier Studien zu einem Porträt, Berlin 1985, p. 127, pl.170 Friedhelm Mennekes, «Francis Bacon: Distanzierung vom Augenschein - Transformation des Mythischen», Kunst und Kirche, no. 1, 1986, p. 36 Michel Leiris, Francis Bacon, London 1988, pl.94 (col.) Wieland Schmied, Francis Bacon: Commitment and Conflict, Munich and New York 1996, [p. 131], pl.38 (col.)
Into a typically restricted
pictorial space Bacon brought together the four protagonists listed in the painting's title: Three Figures and Portrait.
This understanding of sculptural language and a preoccupation with forms in
space, translated
into two - dimensional images, underpins her
pictorial practice.
Stäglich's abstract works are based on her examination of colour painting as well as her interest in the expansion of the
pictorial space into the real
space.
Known for her innovative methods that extend
pictorial devices used to expand perspective
into three - dimensional
space, Al - Hadid opens new terrain for contemporary sculpture while simultaneously recovering influential visual histories.
Challenging the eye of the beholder, Reed's dynamic constellations never cease to open up new
pictorial spaces: the energetic and singular gesture brushstroke of former works progressively condenses
into structures of lines, waves or loops that often seem like edits from some other context, called
into offer counterpoint in new visual arrangement.
Much like her paintings in the past two iterations of NDA, the artist's new series of geometric abstraction becomes even more architectural as she continues her study of visually defining «place», giving the viewer a sense of being able to walk
into and inhabit the
pictorial «
space».
The exhibition Diana Al - Hadid highlights the artist's innovative extension
into three - dimensional
space of
pictorial devices conventionally used to convey perspective in two dimensions.
Known for her innovative methods that extend
pictorial devices used to expand perspective
into three - dimensional
space, Al - Hadid opens up new terrain for contemporary sculpture while simultaneously recovering influential visual histories.
As viewers approach these mind - bending pieces of art from a distance, Provosty tricks them
into discovering that
pictorial space in the work is not as flat as it appeared from a distance, despite the apparent reductivism of her monochromatic palette.
In addition to the abstract paintings, another prominent series of works features Styrofoam canvases, imprinted with footprints as if upon snow, transforming
pictorial space into traversable ground.
In some ways, Kasseböhmer's entire oeuvre can be understood as an attempt to save the
pictorial space of painting and bring it intact — with all its rich knowledge base, technical interplays and entire depth of meaning —
into the present day.
For this «545 Days» exhibition, Robert Proch has continued with his research
into the fragmentation of
space, taking a
pictorial approach that is all his own, halfway between abstraction and figuration, to the point of shattering all our cognitive reference points and igniting our imagination.
The exhibition Diana Al - Hadid highlights the artist's use of
pictorial devices conventionally used to convey perspective in two dimensions, innovatively extended
into three - dimensional
space.
Grosse taps
into the potential for two - dimensional,
pictorial space to scramble, expand, or otherwise intervene in the spatial relationships of the viewing of art.»
The strangest feeling, as I remember it, was to locate the white shapes locked safely
into the colour grid, but to see them also as free and ready to enter our
space, our world... The conundrum of these masterpieces is that they are decorative without being designs,
pictorial without being paintings, heart - stopping in their directness, their economy, their inventiveness.»
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.
Glöckner, was one of former East Germany's leading abstract artists, who, from 1935 started to create collage - like, folded pieces that tested the notion of a shallow
pictorial solid and foreshadowed 1960s minimalism, while in post-war Düsseldorf, Kricke began producing sculptures made from welded together metal rods that reached out dynamically
into space.
His work researches the screen as a
pictorial space, reverse engineering reality
into condensed bits, in a
space somewhere between animated cartoons and paintings.
They extend Siena's drawing
into a place between
pictorial space and the outside world.
Filtering the world around him
into his own
pictorial space throughout an incredibly prolific career, Green's works are useful markers in illustrating the rapid shifts of the world around him as it entered a new and chaotic century.
The range of textures — slick, matte, flat, chunky — cause the background to step out from the
pictorial field
into actual
space, while the color slicks pool
into biomorphic forms.
Her newest works emphasize the ceiling as
pictorial space, drawing inspiration from Renaissance and Baroque murals that made ceilings
into illusionistic, mythological zones.
Broken and fragmented these images are deconstructed
into minimal geometric shapes, organic masses and flat colourful components firmly fixed in a shallow
pictorial space.
With them, he collages the real
space in front of the painting with its
pictorial space, at once subverting the glass's iconographic significance and inviting the viewer
into the picture — only to throw him back out again.
To enter the
pictorial and psychic
space of one of Patterson's images is to tumble
into a fantastical realm in which distinctions between form and symbol, surface and depth, and the sublime and the absurd are lovingly blurred.
Her installation based work addresses the shift between image - planes and
space and aims to turn mathematical
space concepts
into pictorial images.
He is especially interested in the approximation that results from reproduction and decontextualisation of forms or
pictorial spaces and has always taken interest in the slippage from the digital
into the physical.
Winters» kaleidoscopic compositions of overlapping grids and patterns create complex
pictorial spaces, and his use of transparent pigments allows the viewer to see, as the artist has said, «all the events that went
into the making of the painting.»
Joanne Mattera utilises a diagonally skewed grid as a structuring mechanism in her Chromatic Geometry series of paintings, enabling her to realise a set of diamonds intrinsically linked to the edges of the support, truncated by coloured triangles and held in a
pictorial space by the addition of a central horizon line that divides the painting
into two different coloured grounds before which the triangles appear to float.
The images challenge the notion of how to make a line or create a new posture for flattened
space or abstract composition, swivelling from geometry to gesture, propelling representation and language
into abstraction, exploring
pictorial edges and boundaries as well as the constitutive or disruptive role of blank
space,.
The final compositions serve to break down
pictorial space into an undefinable shape.
In doing so they brought the peripheral field, perceptual curvature, and the artist's own body
into the realm of
pictorial space.
To enter the
pictorial and psychic
space of one of Patterson's paintings is to tumble
into a fantastically overdetermined realm in which distinctions between form and symbol, surface and depth, and sublime and profound are lovingly blurred.
This ruse became the perfect rabbit hole
into the illusionistic
pictorial space of my tulle veil painting.
This workshop is about translating 2 - dimensional
pictorial space into 3 - dimensional form.
Included are nine medium - sized paintings — in oil on canvas or linen, from the last five years — that attest to Ayhens's command of her
pictorial means: elastic or distorted
space, a distinctive palette, and a willingness to allow realism to dissolve
into pure abstraction.
I think this stands up: ``... orchestrated
into a coherent painterly /
pictorial vision of 3D
space, arranged so we can see what we need to see from our 2D point of view.»
Keltie Ferris is known for large paintings that lap, layer upon layer,
into glimmering
pictorial spaces; like her, they are utterly debonair.
If Stella's call for a new sense of
space tends too quickly towards a literal - minded interpretation, the problem with Peter Halley's Neo-Geo abstraction was that it moved painting
into a philosophical, theoretical, and technological / conceptual
space which was literal or literalizing in its very own way (e.g., as geometric abstractions came to serve as the
pictorial ««models» of intellectual concepts»).