Sentences with phrase «layered pictorial surface»
The result is an intensely layered pictorial surface reminiscent of a palimpsest, revealing traces of history and culture through the collaged fragments.
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«By the early 1980s, Brodsky's approach involved an exploration of flattened pictorial space built up from layers of pigment that create an overall surface pattern of light and shade, the whole animated by energetic ribbons of color that dance across the canvas as a record of the artist's spontaneous gesture, attesting to his engagement with the process of painting itself,» wrote Chalif.
Alongside the recent developments in the artist's material choices, Ofili has remained faithful to a pictorial style that relies on a conscious flattening of the picture plane, carefully layered surfaces, and diverse, history - spanning sources of inspiration.
Her paintings and drawings are complex meditations on pictorial surfaces, the multivalent layering of images, and societal constructions of gender.
The continuous interest in intense relations between pictorial elements, the very perception of a painterly surface, color and forms, suggest the artist's desire to explore different layers of meanings and emotions.
But painting as such has always been about a pictorial layering of the image that is discontinuous with the actual matter of the paint surface.
If on some paintings the layer of solidified lead lets parts of the original landscape visible, on others it imprisons the pictorial elements rejected by the carbonized surface.
The paintings in this series are produced using the classical oil painting methods and materials of the Old Masters — successive layers of warm and cool black pigment glazes varnished to a highly reflective surface resulting in a profoundly deep pictorial space.
Her pictorial images, which are a compendium of layers of color involving time, intuition, and pressure from hand to surface, appear to have their own point of view rather than conforming to the current look of abstraction, which, given the plethora of art media today, already has begun to appear repetitive.