Sentences with phrase «literal flatness»

Layering flat passages of pinkish gray, he teases the literal flatness of the canvas.

Combining the quick - glance semiotics of corporate iconography with the gestalt read of 1960s minimalism, Hoelscher's latest series of paintings incorporate areas of raw, unprimed canvas that play off of the highly - finished painted areas, exploring the range of contrasts between constructed flatness and literal flatness.

Pendleton, meanwhile, deploys a literal flatness to question art or writing's imperative to «express the world».

With his 1964 «What you see is what you see» — eerily contemporary with Marshall McLuhan's own tautological formula about the medium being the message — Stella brings Greenberg's literal flatness to a metaphorical level: Painting is the message and metaphorical flatness is now achieved in painting by denying it any depth of content.

Not exact matches

When Clement Greenberg asserted the essence of painting flatness, I think he was off the mark by being both too literal and too narrow, and this gave formalism a bad name which it didn't deserve.

The Guggenheim retrospective is titled «The Trauma of Painting»: to those seeking literal trauma Burri is, to use another of Sweeney's phrases, «St Januarius of the Collage», whose discarded materials become flesh and blood in the presence of the living; to those looking for a more figurative trauma, he deconstructs the flatness and purity of modernist painting.

As such, flatness, literal shape and color became primary and representative of the «pure» qualities of the emerging modernist aesthetic.

More importantly, she developed a body of work — as the three paintings in her exhibition at THEODORE: Art make readily apparent — that stood in thoughtful and thorough opposition to the aesthetic attitudes — by - then widely upheld, institutionally sanctioned, particularly as they concerned abstraction — that emphasized particular techniques (staining), the historical necessity of flatness, and a literal (or anti-associational) mindset — all of which could be summed by Frank Stella's terse dictum, «What you see is what you see.»