Sentences with phrase «optical experience of a painting»

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This quest to capture pure optical sensation goes back to the Impressionists, who argued that their paintings were more faithful to actual visual experience than were the carefully drawn and shaded compositions of the Salon painters.

Postmodernism deprived painting of originality and first - hand experience at the same time that Greenberg's disembodied abstraction, addressed to eyesight alone, collided with the desire on the part of some artists to retain the wholeness of the aesthetic experience made available by the old masters in their fusion of the haptic quality of sensuous painterly surfaces with the optical melding of colour and light.

Such demotion was perhaps the inevitable result of depriving painting of the fullness of experience that it once offered and reducing it to a pure «optical» experience devoid of content, metaphor or surface.

As in all of Daignault's painting — installations or painting — performances, each painting in The Pure Products of America Go Crazy can be experienced as an individual work or as part of a larger theoretical and optical puzzle.

Each of Mr. Ryman's paintings is a riddle of physical facts, choices and details as well as optical experiences.

Don't you think once that enters into the realm of painting it becomes an optical experience in that you have fundamentally distilled the generalized visual impressions of the world into a very specific form of presentation?

For the viewer, her paintings evoke energies in the body as well as optical experience, and the physical presence of each painting resists immediate assimilation, involving a dynamic, layered search for unity.

While painfully didactic, the Shag Paintings also create an optical experience as the hard edge pattern slips into the seemingly out - of - focus yarn section, and back again.

There is a greater variety to the top dots, and the first experience you get of the painting is of the irregular rhythm of light reflecting off the hard dried dots that distantly recalls the optical flicker of Larry Poons's»60s op art paintings.

Baxandall's «all good painting has to be grounded in the inner optical experience of the world» makes way more sense than Duchamp's «painting should not be an optical experience».

The black paintings in this exhibition are dark, throbbing pieces of work that you can spend hours looking at (should you find the time), experiencing their bold optical effects.