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.
By deft patterning he has done something image - makers have aspired to since Cubism -
made pictorial space itself read like narrative.
Not exact matches
I might ask participants in one of my workshops to
make a bright painting that celebrates the color gray in order to
make them think more deeply about the variety of ways gray can function in
pictorial space.»
His kaleidoscopic compositions of overlapping grids and patterns create complex
pictorial spaces, and his use of transparent pigments allows the viewer to see, as the artist has said, «all the events that went into the
making of the painting.»
At the same time, her almost decorative technique of
making human and animal figures components of formal composition, through the arrangement, or insertion, of color fields within the
pictorial space, credits Kudo as an aspiring successor of the modernist formal painting championed by Matisse»
She has continually shifted the terms of her practice, incorporating figuration, abstraction, digital techniques and gestural mark -
making into compositions that confound expectations of
pictorial space.
One is Carrie Moyer, whose abstractions of overlapped biomorphic shapes toying with
pictorial space make for a serene show - within - the - show.
A showcase for her extensive arsenal of techniques and ideas, her ambitious large - scale canvases create patchworks out of different manners of mark -
making and toy inventively with questions of frame dynamics and figure / ground illusions, often within a remarkably shallow
pictorial space.
Such sequences
made it possible to elaborate on ideas such as the division of the
pictorial space, e.g. the rectangle of the sheet of paper.
The great naturalist and realist, according to Stella's analysis, freed
pictorial space from its former subservience to architecture and sculpture,
making it «capable of dissolving its own perimeter and surface plane.»
In this case, Consuegra reproduces a
space within another
space, expanding the limits of the
pictorial plane and
making the white cube the work itself.
Among the many lessons Bultman learned from Hofmann, the building of a positive instead of recessive
pictorial space is the compositional coup that
makes these paintings so effective on the massive white marble walls.
Digesting this in the studio, Cooke
made one of the first paintings from this body of work «No Holidays,» in which the
space is entirely sucked up by paint, where each mark quite literally becomes both a support and a threat to the
pictorial space.
In abstract painting, there has been this tendency to denounce
pictorial space, to
make it more flat, to reduce everything down to the plane.
In his most recent exhibition, «Paraisópolis,» Bisky
made a new and promising turn to a more abstract handling of content and
pictorial space.
Rothko
made few public statements about the mechanics of color or
pictorial space in his work, especially after 1949.
In between fluid abstraction and sculptural figuration, these works become three - dimensional
pictorial spaces with a potential for image
making.
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.
Using unconventional materials such as Formica and Celotex (a fibrous paper - composite often used for ceiling tiles), he has
made paintings that incorporate three - dimensional
space and sculptures that embrace
pictorial illusion.
Her newest works emphasize the ceiling as
pictorial space, drawing inspiration from Renaissance and Baroque murals that
made ceilings into illusionistic, mythological zones.
Presenting approximately 30 large - size paintings and 86 works on paper, the exhibition in the Schirn will focus on this late work for the first time, introducing an artist who, with his dynamically two - dimensional forms and clear colors transcending the
pictorial space,
makes an impression that is not historical at all but surprisingly up - to - date.
Although Toby Ziegler's exploration of
pictorial space — its artifice and illusion — leads him to
make objects as often as paintings, the organizing impulse behind it is fundamentally that of a painter.
At that time Kounellis was still a student and painted signs from the cityscape and road signs: hanging fabrics directly on the walls of his apartment, he created a fragmented and personal alphabet
made of letters, arrows and other symbols that mark and create the
pictorial space.
I'm interested in
making paintings that speak a sculptural language within a compressed two - dimensional abstracted
pictorial space, in other words, I see my work as micro-sculpture that hinge on the brink of the
pictorial.
Because of his working method, with the paper flat on a table, he could never really see how the picture turned out until it was framed, which
makes his vertiginous, highly expressive use of
pictorial space all the more impressive.
«I'm interested in
making paintings that speak a sculptural language within a compressed two - dimensional abstracted
pictorial space,» says Scott.
Winters» kaleidoscopic compositions of overlapping grids and patterns create complex
pictorial spaces, and his use of transparent pigments allows the viewer to see, as the artist has said, «all the events that went into the
making of the painting.»
The images challenge the notion of how to
make a line or create a new posture for flattened
space or abstract composition, swivelling from geometry to gesture, propelling representation and language into abstraction, exploring
pictorial edges and boundaries as well as the constitutive or disruptive role of blank
space,.
In other canvases, floating geometrical shapes dip underneath and hover over
pictorial objects,
making space both collapse and expand — and in the process drawing attention to the physical mechanics of sight.
How do we use the color green to create tension in
pictorial space even when we are
making a literal reference to it in nature?
At times I wish I could
make work that used the logic of alternating darks to lights in a recession of
pictorial space but it doesn't suit me.
In his later works, traditional art materials share
pictorial space with tactile ready -
mades, bits and pieces from coloured out newspapers, laundry receipts, cellophane, noodles and tea: glued in, enmeshed and stuck on.