Sentences with phrase «like illusionistic space»

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There is a well - worn narrative of twentieth century painting that goes like this: From Cezanne to Picasso to Pollock, the illusionistic space of painting flattened more and more until the picture plane and the surface created by the paint itself became the primary subject matter, eliminating images altogether in favor of abstraction.

In her compositions Jebavy often includes glassware forms that call to mind other Baroque artworks, such as Bernini's expansive Baldachin in St. Peter's Cathedral, or illusionistic Italian ceiling paintings and cathedrals, building altar - like architectural spaces that are at once intimate, domestic, and banal, and monumental, metaphysical, and transcendental.

Though Stella, like Richard Serra, is not shy of scale, the overarching issue here is not the presence of focused materiality but the potential for material to form an open - ended Baroque extension, the consequence being that an illusionistic painting now exists in real space.

A series of lithographs, like Pet Stains, 1990, hark back to Synthetic Cubism: puddles of black paint mark a stack of trompe l'oeil newspapers so as to create a tension between flat representation and illusionistic space.

«By the 1970s, thanks largely to formalist critics like Clement Greenberg and Donald Judd, painting had been flattened and emptied of figures, subject matter and illusionistic space....

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.