The works
make spatial illusion feel like a living, shifting thing, sometimes reptilian but also spongy, like layered clouds.
Not exact matches
You can view the 3 - D content through traditional red - and - cyan glasses if you like, but
Spatial View also
makes autostereoscopic lenticular lenses that fit over the iPhone screen to create the
illusion of depth without the kooky spectacles.
Following in the tradition of Jackson Pollock, whose drip paintings finally broke the bond between painter and canvas, and Frank Stella's Black Paintings which discarded the need for
spatial illusion, Judd
makes the next, unassailable step of taking art into a new dimension — a dimension in which it could finally achieve the full potential of creativity.
Some were trying out unusual materials and techniques — cotton balls, fake jewels, pigmented wax, spray guns, squeegees — either to
make painting more perversely objectlike or to reopen the
spatial illusions shut down by the Judd - Stella - Greenberg juggernaut.
He went through his black and white phase, and came out the other side in the late 1970s
making paintings and prints of utter clarity, but which reintroduced colour, built up paint in low relief and explored once more the
illusion of three dimensions, suggesting volume and
spatial depth in what could look a little like a late - century and cheerier abstract take on Giorgio de Chirico's bleak city centres in lovely, hard colours.
By 1968 he was teaching at the University of Massachusetts and had become increasingly interested in
making paintings which manifested an energetic presence and
spatial illusion in front of the picture plane.
Both works demonstrate Moon's practice of
making crossing lines suggest surface and
spatial illusion, despite the flatness of the colour.
With these works — razor - sharp depictions of abstract, brushily painted, sculptural tableaux, for the most part — not only does one struggle to identify the medium, but the compositions traffic in shadowy
illusion and
spatial ambiguity,
making it hard at times to know exactly what is being portrayed.
What I'm trying to say is that the «triggers» (good word) of the space
illusion are only going to work because they are associated with a particular type of
spatial sensation in the real world, so that the illusory space that is evoked is actually tied to that particular
spatial sensation,
making the pictorial space at least in this sense figurative.
Make no mistake, should the
spatial illusions Fiona Rae creates appear at times to reference Pollock and de Kooning, and her disparate and apparently random marks bring Kandinsky to mind, her work fizzes and buzzes with the frenetic energy and fast - paced lifestyle of the 21st century — her chosen subject matter.