Sentences with phrase «of illusionistic»

How do you keep the painted relationships in an abstract painting JUST spatial / pictorial — neither depictive, descriptive, suggestive of illusionistic, figurative, atmospheric space; nor literal, one layer on top of another (even though they are), or flatly adjacent?
There's a lot of illusionistic trompe - l'oeil elements, and then there's always some kind of grid structure that's holding them together, that all these elements are hung on.
As he has noted, his use of «push - pull dynamics and the occasional use of illusionistic perspective against raw expressionistic brushwork gives the impression of looking deep into the canvas only to be thrust back to the surface.»
However, the European Pop artists never really got rid of the idea of illusionistic space, and I for one felt closer to the use of colour by the Abstract Expressionists.
Reducing this analysis to a specific painting problem, Lucas explores the issue of spacial illusions through the paradox of illusionistic reproduction on a flat surface.
The dissolution of form calls to mind the flattening of illusionistic volumes in Cubism, perhaps the multidirectional tubular forms of Fernand Léger.
In paintings such as Architectural Variation of 1949, Bolotowsky exorcised all suggestions of illusionistic space.
I incorporate not only a semblance of an illusionistic space, but also the resemblance of the viewer who is reflected in the surface.
Here, Backman archly plays with a few painting - theory chestnuts from the 20th century, from foregrounding the material reality of the paint itself in contradiction of its illusionistic properties to the notion of «breaking the picture plane,» done bluntly with a paint can protruding from the middle of his nice photorealistic oceanscape.
His work defined a split between the visual automatism fostered by Masson and Miro (and originally with words by Breton) and a new form of illusionistic Surrealism practiced by the Spaniard Salvador Dali (1904 — 1989), the Belgian Paul Delvaux (1897 — 1994), and the French - American Yves Tanguy (1900 — 1955).
What appear to be linear marks and ripples made by dragging the stick - end of a brush through wet vinyl paint, like an act of vandalism tearing through a pristine surface, is in fact a tour de force of illusionistic paint - handling.
All the works featured in the show are the product of Stella's diverse approach to the conventions of illusionistic and literal space, not just from a pictorial viewpoint but also from the architectural and sculptural.
In creating the drawings, Voigt first maps the movements of her entire body, and then translates her full - body experience into a symbolic language of illusionistic organic shapes that float on a flat background.
As in the best Hodgkin paintings, a tension arises from the precarious balance of illusionistic space and the purely abstract, tactile richness of the surface.
Any hints of illusionistic depth are subtly denied by flat areas of color, placing the pictorial just out of reach.
In my current paintings, I have reintroduced the idea of illusionistic space in a way that stays true to the abstract forms that I have been experimenting with for the past 5 years.
In his recent body of work New York native, Ben Grant, continues to push the boundaries of his process as he returns to the idea of illusionistic space.
The artist transforms the museum lobby into an all - consuming invasion of eggs; thousands of illusionistic, hand - made sculptures of sunny - side - up, fried eggs are suspended on the walls, dripping to the corner and floor, and even found in unexpected places like the museum's front desk and staircase.
In his geometry - infused, packing - store tape assemblages, Garry Noland addresses the long history of illusionistic painting that employ the trompe l'oeil techniques of Renaissance and Baroque painters.
These shows received little notice, but two years later, a 1962 Sidney Janis Gallery exhibition in New York officially launched Pop Art, bringing Thiebaud national recognition, although he disclaimed being anything other than a painter of illusionistic form.
He enclosed vast panoramas in abstract lines of color that created an oscillation between pure painting at the edges and moments of illusionistic space at the center of the work.
Here a dynamic structure is achieved through the juxtaposition of a large monochromatic star motif painted directly on the wall against a backdrop of loose, free flowing technique on papersheets rearranged by the artist to engage the viewer into the depths of illusionistic space.
Martin Weinstein (NYC) creates paintings on 3 - 5 sheets of plexiglass layered together to form an image of illusionistic depth; he interprets this special theatre by depicting the same scene multiple times, and by inserting discontinuous elements... a reminder of the tenuous nature of reality itself.
For Brown it has come to mean fashioning clumps of illusionistic brushmarks that end up being behind the picture plane.
Abstract expressionism had already challenged the tradition of representational art and its use of illusionistic space.
If we adopt the screen then as the emblem of the contemporary optic, we presumably regard contemporary painting as somehow marking a return to a quasi-classical conception of its task as one of illusionistic affect... The intelligence lies in suggesting that materiality can persist as a key affective dimension of painting only if its terms are re-written... Recent paintings, like Michael Stubbs's work towards a diminished materiality, resulting in something more akin to the continuous surface associated with the varnished skin of an Old Master painting than to the opaque porosity of a Hofmann or Still.
A pioneer in painting, Murray's distinctively shaped canvases break with the art - historical tradition of illusionistic space in two - dimensions.
These two approaches articulated very early on in its history this kind of work's almost paradoxical dynamic: that one can read a monochrome either as a flat surface (material entity or «painting as object») which represents nothing but itself, and therefore representing an ending in the evolution of illusionism in painting (i.e. Rodchenko); or as a depiction of multidimensional (infinite) space, a fulfillment of illusionistic painting, representing a new evolution — a new beginning — in Western painting's history (Malevich).
She teases the viewer with the promise of illusionistic painterly space and then she catapults her canvas into the void, forcing it to exist in real time, building little fortresses, and firing cannons in its general direction.
As perception and a layered reading of different spaces are simultaneously engaged, the artist's loose, free - flowing technique guides the viewer into the depths of illusionistic space.
Composed of a single horse bone mounted on a walnut pedestal in front of an illusionistic graphic depiction of a similar
On view in PC — G's Reilly Gallery, this group exhibition consists of illusionistic compositions — rendered somewhere between meticulous staging techniques, analog processes and digital alterations — manipulate perceptions of space and reality to create photographs that appear as abstract paintings.
«Dimensions Variable» also features the artist's hand - constructed frames, suggesting a threshold for the subjects of the paintings to come forward, into «real life», as they visually oscillate between the foreground and background of the illusionistic painting.
Painted in 1934 and purchased the following year, Paranoiac - astral Image was one of the earliest paintings by Dalí, today the most popular master of illusionistic Surrealism, to enter the collection of an American museum.
Through these works, the exhibition examines the social, political, and creative impulses that help drive the creation and subversion of illusionistic space in art.
Other paintings here by Chambers feature less of an illusionistic space.
This exhibition consists of illusionistic compositions — rendered somewhere between meticulous staging techniques, analog processes and digital alterations — manipulate perceptions of space and reality to create photographs that appear as abstract paintings.
Rauschenberg's abandonment of illusionistic depth effects — whether of conventional representational art or of the abstract expressionists» vast, immeasurable spaces — seems to come in part from an attachment to the physical realities of this world rather than to the less tangible possibilities of an inner vision.
Between Spaces will include film, installation, photography, and sculpture that address themes of nostalgia, a preoccupation with materiality, and the creation of illusionistic and psychological shifts in space.
Ms. McEneaney is seen infrequently, usually from the back or from a distance or when she's asleep, her pets arrayed around her in settings notable for their bold colors, dense details and distortions of illusionistic space that exert a magnetic pull.
In terms of material, working in the theater also taught me to use cheap, every day materials and transform them into any number of illusionistic scenarios.
«When I work I move back and forth between the creation of illusionistic space and a fully non-representational relationship with the process, the surface of the picture, and even the formal considerations relating to its shape,» says Ms Adams.
Faust is widely known for his abstract paintings and sculptures that employ color to convey emotion and meaning, often with the use of illusionistic effects.
The spaces herein are not wrought out of illusionistic ambiguities, but from plastic certainties.»

Not exact matches

Although he was primarily focused on demonstrating the relativity of color, Albers also studied how composition and linear design could render his works both illusionistic and enigmatic.
From illusionistic, or trompe l'oeil (trick of the eye), paintings to more ephemeral and conceptual gestures, these artworks challenge what we see and prompt us to appreciate and even enjoy experiences of dissonance.
I wasn't satisfied with a painted illusionistic texture and so I carefully extruded thin thread - like lines of oil paint out of a little plastic bag to re-create the three - dimensional terry cloth texture that I desired.
The solo exhibition will also showcase illusionistic drawings made with dry pastel and sculptures made of compressed jute, newspaper and old clothes — works that Nai is increasingly earning renown for.
Various facets of his more recent white - primed rhomboids and diamonds are painted behind, or in front, in bright, saturated hues creating a fascinating play between literal and illusionistic depth.
Illusion in the trompe - l'oeil sense is not one of my techniques, and the effect isn't illusionistic.
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