Sentences with phrase «on pictorial surfaces»

Her paintings and drawings are complex meditations on pictorial surfaces, the multivalent layering of images, and societal constructions of gender.

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The large scale Water Lily Paintings verge on abstraction and are unsurpassed in their pioneering efforts at creating viable pictorial structure from color, surface, luminosity, value, hue and chromatic shifts.

While Pistoletto has typically relied on the mirror's reflective surface to seamlessly integrate pictorial space with the physical space of the viewer, the Scaffali paintings appear to complicate this relationship.

In contrast to the traditional verticality of the renaissance picture plane, which is dependent on head - to - toe correspondence with the viewer, with his combines Rauschenberg introduced the «flat - bed» plane and in doing so completely reoriented the pictorial surface so that it was no longer representative of a world space, but an analogue of operational processes.

Alongside the recent developments in the artist's material choices, Ofili has remained faithful to a pictorial style that relies on a conscious flattening of the picture plane, carefully layered surfaces, and diverse, history - spanning sources of inspiration.

«This bicoastal photographer,» a San Francisco Chronicle reviewer wrote, «has taken a pictorial cliché, reflections on the surfaces of bodies of water, and turned it into a means of generating compositions that echo classics of Surrealist and abstract painting.»

Informed by new materials and technologies, Mack's aim was to abandon the traditional idea of pictorial space, and instead focus solely on an overall surface with the effects of light, reflection and motion.

Drips, gestures, and splatters of paint in his work have led many critics to identify him as a second - generation Abstract Expressionist, but Francis has also been compared to Color Field artists on the basis of large, fluid sections of paint that seem to extend beyond the confines of the pictorial surface.

The crackling, pentimenti, and blushed varnishes that Purdy has created on the surface of the paintings may be seen to be formal elements in the pictorial language, referring to the role of surface and mark in twentieth - century abstract painting.

If on some paintings the layer of solidified lead lets parts of the original landscape visible, on others it imprisons the pictorial elements rejected by the carbonized surface.

Feldman composes striking images by employing a limited number of pictorial elements on the surface of her paintings.

The show attempts to bridge the gap between the two bodies of works by engaging the issue of pictorial representation as an abstraction of depicted objects — a far - reaching pursuit for compositions and techniques that seem fairly simple and straightforward on the surface.

«These pieces and perspectives narrate several Ofilis: the colorist who works in restricted palettes, at times Garveyite red, black and green, at others blue monochromes or Favist ochres, purples and greens; the scatologist who uses shit as a sculptural base and pictorial ground, handling paint both to build up and denude his paintings surfaces; and the mime of machismo and voyeurism who draws on imagery from blaxploitation, Marvel comics, porn, and postcolonial African photography,» he writes.

On the Sprays, Greenberg wrote, «What makes Olitski's paint surface a factor in the creation of major art — is the way in which one of the profoundest pictorial imaginations of this time speaks through it.»

Auerbach inherited a pictorial language from Bomberg, which focused on a concern for the tangible surface.

Confirming the particularly visual contingency of her paintings and prints, the non-perspectival experience of the sea front panorama referenced above was echoed and confirmed in Bridget Riley's own words: «Pictorial space has to be about something on a two - dimensional surface, in which pictorial space happens by pictorial thinking... perspective is by no means the only waPictorial space has to be about something on a two - dimensional surface, in which pictorial space happens by pictorial thinking... perspective is by no means the only wapictorial space happens by pictorial thinking... perspective is by no means the only wapictorial thinking... perspective is by no means the only way.»

The long, bent marks of green and orange on the left are similar in pictorial effect to the short parallel lines commonly used in illustrations to indicate reflections in mirrors and other shiny surfaces.

Micro-match Having listened to the disputed expert evidence — and studied pictorial depictions of the ear in question — the court's judgment was that ear print comparison was capable of providing information which could identify the person who had left such a print on a surface where minutiae concerning the ear could be identified and matched.