Sentences with phrase «like pictorial space»

The stage - like pictorial space, the cage - like constructions in the side panels and the tendency towards deformation and disintegration in the anthropomorphic figures are all characteristic elements in Bacon's paintings.

On first glance, many of his paintings look like pictorial space populated by shapes resembling Sol LeWitt sculptures.

Not exact matches

Many of the artists represented in the collection have explored drawn formats extensively, questioning its status and conceiving new forms of the dessin: e.g. Trisha Donnelly, who fuses drawing and video; Urs Fischer, who creates drawings in three - dimensional space; or artists like Raymond Pettibon, Larry Johnson and Mike Kelley, who work with the pictorial idiom of comics.

Like Judd's Minimalist objects, Rauschenberg's Combines would undertake the passage from pictorial to real (three - dimensional) space, but they would do so only while foregrounding the mediated and commodified state of the «real» in postwarsociety.

Like the ledge, that cloak allows him to extend the Renaissance conception of pictorial space.

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 result was sometimes odd but always elegant: arching forms appear like wedged shoehorns within the pictorial space, gently exposing painting's material infrastructure.

Filtered through his photographs, Mesoamerican architecture showed Albers the accordion - like nature of pictorial space: it could be rendered as volumetric, flat and something in between at the same time.

Now, there are a lot of stretched canvases on the wall, taking up vertical pictorial space, like paintings.

As I work, I follow detours and choose contingencies within a syntax of stripes, planes, paint drips, abrasions, and stains, and trompe l'oeil supports that act like small prosthetics within the pictorial space.

One of the more stylistically influential members of the so - called «Pictures Generation» — with which, like Cindy Sherman, she was grouped despite not being included in Douglas Crimp's 1977 «Pictures» show at Artists Space — she devised a signature pictorial approach that married intellectual concepts with utterly refined, elegantly minimal presentation.

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.

The walls of the space will be treated like a collage sheet and furnished with a constellation of paintings and collages focusing on the formal relationship of - human - figure and pictorial ground.

Like his younger counterparts, Newman seems to have been most concerned with generating pictorial space through color alone rather than through violent or explosive brushwork.

From this point on, space and its pictorial representation were steadily investigated in Hockney's artistic practice, his canvas Looking at Pictures on a Screen (1977) is a brilliant mise en abyme were the spectator observes an inner spectator observing paintings from diverse artists like Vermeer, Van Gogh and Piero della Francesca.

A seemingly disorderly pile of box - like coloured shapes, flatly rendered in a shallow pictorial space, are featured against a painted grey ground.

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.»

Like trenches running through the artist's formulated landscape, the repeated series of horizontal and vertical demarcations of pictorial space convey Bradford's methodical physicality, their edges projecting outwards from the canvas ground, conferring a striking three - dimensionality to the surface.»

For example, the large - format landscape painting characterized by blue and green tones, Downtown, opens up like a window onto a dynamized pictorial space.

By deft patterning he has done something image - makers have aspired to since Cubism - made pictorial space itself read like narrative.

The small ones are intimate and pun - like because they are actual size; the larger are witty and incisive in their scaling up of empty pictorial space and ironic elevation of cultural vacuity.

The pictorial space of the work is expanded further by painting over and around the narrow frames, contributing to the object - like feel of the paintings.

Pictorial space and illusion have often parted ways in the time of abstraction, only to be reunited by clever topologists like McNeil, who twist and toy with our perceptions in ways that never cease to delight.

It seems like emotions organize the pictorial space but is there a context or situation in fact you relate to?

Mitchell's jagged compositions of this period project centrifugal forces, barely contained by the painting plane, whereas Gedney's use of pulsating thick color with painterly drawings of pure black — sometimes forcefully, sometimes suggestively, and sometimes architecturally, like an expressionist descendant of Mondrian — fully contains the explosive energy of the work within the pictorial space.

Pictorial tropes — line, field and scale; jewel - like colors and stark shifts in space — are rendered with startling precision.

As I work, I follow detours and choose contingencies within a syntax of shapes, stripes, planes, the static of paint drips, abrasions, and stains, and trompe l'oeil supports that act like small prosthetics within the pictorial space.

Keltie Ferris is known for large paintings that lap, layer upon layer, into glimmering pictorial spaces; like her, they are utterly debonair.

In each, however, thick snake - like forms coil their way across the pictorial space and, seemingly, out into the gallery space as well, blocking the portal, appearing lyrical and decorative here, vulgar and threatening there.