Sentences with word «opticality»

Richter foregrounds paint itself, the sensuality of its dried and liquescent textures and the sheer opticality of its chroma.

There is less opticality in these works than visual splendor.

During his undergraduate years at Princeton University, Bannard joined fellow students, the painter Frank Stella and the critic and art historian Michael Fried, in conversations that expanded aesthetic definitions and led to an emphasis on opticality as the defining feature of pictorial art.

Louis was one of the leading figures of the Color Field movement, he revolutionized painting with his seamless unification of figure and ground and his pursuit of pure opticality.

Sheer opticality is code for Modernist painting's achievement, and at this time it was both notable and belated.»

There's opticality here that, for me, is always more than the «purely optical», including a sensing of time, suspended, distorted, and also simply passing, and with it a metaphorical connection to ideas related to mining, and toil.

Op Art is again being revisited by a younger generation in light of the changing relationship to opticality through digital technology, and the work of Andrade continues to be informed by that rich dialogue.

In fact, the tension at the heart of Poons's methods concerns the stubborn materiality of pigment versus the inherent opticality of colour.

It still does, but «I was never able to hit this high note again, that sheet opticality.»

If Andy Warhol's aim was «to be a machine», in these and other early works Stella was propelled by the same industrial tick, producing paintings that reflect a modernist interest in flatness and opticality while evoking manufactured objects like doors and windows.

He took the prevailing opticality of the early 1960s into an entirely new and unexpected place.

Unabashedly formal, Anoka Farquee's erudite paintings dazzle in their prismatic opticality.

Baker electrifies Color Field with her ferocious drawing even as she set gross physicality against its disembodied opticality.

There were many reasons for Joan to adore Proust's novel, including its sensuousness, luminosity, poetic language, psychological subtlety, intense opticality, and inward and outward focus.

The works combine hard opticality and distorted geometries to suggest the limitations of memory and recall, calling into question the way we gather information from the world around us.

In such a way, Stella rejects the notion of frugality for frugality's sake; from his formal economy emerges a glut of dizzying lines and clashing colors that combine the rationality of an Albers with all the swinging opticality of a Bridget Riley painting.

Rendered with an inventive combination of traditional and contemporary painterly techniques, Williams» work has a highly tactile, disorienting opticality.

His mixed - media works prove that painterly abstraction was hardly finished and challenge the discourse around painting and opticality by emphasizing the materiality of the support with a distinctive blend of marble dust and plaster.

The braided opalescence of Tet, its muted opticality, shows that subtlety to great advantage.

In their myriad details, opulent opticality, translucency, layering, delicacy and compression, Seliger's paintings are unrivaled, and the artist's dazzling embrace of color only further elevates these paintings into a realm all their own.

There's opticality even in Jeanne Masoero «s Basis for Light, Series II, no. 7 (1977) the nearest work in the exhibition to «systems art».

One of the leading figures of the Color Field movement, Louis revolutionized painting with his seamless unification of figure and ground and his pursuit of pure opticality.

Pepe Karmel will give a «Weather Report» on opticality and liquidity in the work of Frankenthaler and Gerhard Richter.

«We liked that both words — «test» and «pattern» — to play against each other, in that the works represent the continual testing, experimentation, and invention of artists, while «pattern» suggests the heightened presence of surface and opticality in these works.»

These canvases are taut, tense and meticulously executed... There is an opticality and tactility in painting that makes it impossible to reproduce in print, and this is especially so in painting like Nesbit's.

One mainstream is represented in the works of Matisse, Picasso, and Monet: expressing beauty, sensuality, primitive power, painterliness, opticality, art as the conveyor of emotion primarily thru color, the spiritual archetypes of Jung, art as the an uplifting sensibility, art as a depiction of idealized life, art as a depiction of everyday (existential) life, and the act of painting itself.

«Through a focused selection of work, Space Between contemplates the poetic and creative potential for abstraction to flirt and dance with the edges of opticality and experience, synthesizing a new space for the viewer,» states curator Louis Grachos.

Since the 1960s, Edna Andrade (b. 1917) has created a body of paintings that pursues a formal logic based in geometric abstraction and opticality.

«6 But there is nothing «antioptical» about Piper's careful attention to framing, visual balance, and hue here — rather, she cannily mobilizes the opticality of modernist painting to highlight the ocular elements of racialized recognition.7

Can you address repetitive gesture, opticality, and decoration as they relate to your work and perhaps their connection to the psyche and the home?

Soft Ending 1969, for example, seems to have an opticality that is understated or resisted in the later work.

The dominant art critic of the post-World War II era, Clement Greenberg, insisted that painting in order to remain «pure» had to be addressed to eyesight alone, because he argued that the essence of visual experience was «opticality».

Visual and mental snares await the viewer, who must negotiate a path between the opticality of color, the materiality of paint, and the sometimes outright obscenity of language.

Drips and borders interrupt the perfect flatness of his pictorial screens or windows, reframing the binaries of opticality and expression, painting and object, agent and observer.

The opticality of this formal approach is enhanced in these paintings through layering and sharp contract.

Substituting virtuality for Fried's opticality, Relyea proposed that the dematerialized effulgence of the computer monitor was the impetus for yet another stab at pure painting, and he cited Los Angeles — based painter Laura Owens as the pervasive influence.

The poured flows reveal a build up of flat layers that are both literal and implied by utilizing depth and opticality.

Peter Demos» current body of black and white monochromes addresses themes of opticality, repetition, and surface.

I'm wondering if these forms are important to the composition in that they seem to augment the opticality of the work.

While he writes about Clyfford Still in his influential essay, «American - Type Painting» (1955), he misrepresents Still by connecting his work to the opticality of the late paintings of Claude Monet.

While Bishop has said that he learned from Frankenthaler, he has never been a purist who either privileged one technique over another or strived for pure opticality.

In contrast to the younger artists he influenced, Motherwell did not believe that opticality and flatness had supplanted drawing and spatiality.

The influential critic Clement Greenberg denounced this aspect of abstraction in favor of opticality and paint's materiality — an art of sensation and literalism.

I'm always trying to activate the space between the object that's really about this flat surface on the wall and the space between it and the viewer, so that the viewer is engaged perceptually through the movement of the strokes, the opticality, and in following my body's movement across the picture plane like a kind of mimesis.

Once he felt he had exhausted this critique of opticality, Scott moved into a series of color line paintings that embrace their own viewing rather than deny it.