Sentences with phrase «material flatness»

But it is easy to forget the picture plane as a factor in the organisation of abstract painting given the convenience of material flatness, which will anchor any number of diverse elements without too much bother.

In 2005, he turned to painting, developing a distinctive greyscale aesthetic that combines deft tonal modeling of figures with a material flatness, both alluding to and obscuring characters appropriated from western popular culture and marginal countercultural sources.

Not exact matches

I'm interested in flatness, the flat plane, and materials that keep illusions at bay.»

Her work addresses how the historical can be used as a material to address contemporary conditions such as loss, the swipe, the flatness and limitations of an image, emotions in classical sculpture, the use of models, muscle aches from using a computer, color as a language, and the democracy of materials such as clay.

The materials may not be miscellaneous and everyday, as with Rauschenberg, but Stella's renditions very much play with the ambiguity between panting and sculpture, flatness and three - dimensionality.

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.

Yet in his non ‐ sketching creation process, he not only removes the steadiness and flatness of photographs, but also revert the reality of the scene and the vividness of the material, which expresses his personal pursuit to the figure.

In Meyer Vaisman's paintings the volumetric stacking of canvases or layering of compositional elements, and the ersatz texturing of surfaces - a photomechanical imprinting of a magnified reproduction of canvas weave borrowed from a commercial Letratone ¨ pattern sheet - parody the modernist ethos about flatness and truth to materials.

The visceral gestures of Abstract Expressionism gave way to the flatness of Pop and the hard edges of Minimalism, which in turn stirred a generation of «Post-Minimalists» to reject clean forms and tidy material delineations, opting instead for handicrafts and organic aesthetics.

Permitting himself the expressivity, Schnabel balanced technical and sentimental by avoiding flatness which he achieved by incorporating unconventional materials as black velvet, weathered tarpaulins, and cardboard.

Once the dominant expression of both the historical and the neo-avant-garde, but now pursued only by a select few, the mode feels locked into an endless repetition of long - tired tropes like objecthood, flatness, and material specificity.

This, in tandem with the matte - ness of the material, creates a surface tension that encourages the eye to actively traverse the expanse of work, probing the paradoxical depth and flatness that Marden's composition presents.

He has gone on to produce a major body of work that shuns the flatness of the picture plane replacing it with a divergent mix of high and low art materials that are bolshy and strident, elegant and considered, yet seldom demure.

In Borgoria, layered geometric forms made from industrial materials juxtapose flatness and depth.

For Greenberg, a consummately formal, purely material, nonsymbolic work — for example, a painting finessing its flatness in the act of acknowledging it — was an exemplification of positivism, which he saw as the reigning ideology of the modern world.

The serial quality of Stella's work marked his persistence in perfection and his pursuit of purity in his creation, as is evidenced by his constant utilization of different materials, shapes and even by his fluctuation between flatness and relief.

This process energized him to paint broadly, while blocking out forms, adding colors, and omitting details — all in the service of augmenting the pictorial flatness and stillness he admired so much in the original source material.

Join artists Stina Puotinen and Mark Joshua Epstein for a collaborative experience that explores facets of Grant Wood's art — uncanny rural scenes; surreal objects made from found materials; and the interplay of depth, flatness, and pattern.

While Stella, once he broke from the mold of Greenbergian flatness, could equate presence only with volume and visual weight, Bonnefoi's response to the same strictures was an emphasis on thinness and on the absence of physical weight; an excess of both material and metaphorical lightness.