Sentences with phrase «opticality of»

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

«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

Not exact matches

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.

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

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.

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.

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».

In this and a number of other paintings, Owens is interested in degraded opticality — the meeting of Clement Greenberg's purity with what he hated, kitsch.

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.

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

Even as arguments against modernism's supposed transcendence of daily life were issued by a host of global players — Hélio Oiticica and the tropicália movement in Brazil, Guy Debord and the Situationist International in France, the Art Workers» Coalition and early land art in the us — many influential curators and critics doubled down, most notably Michael Fried in his 1967 essay «Art and Objecthood», a defence of medium specificity and the priority of immediacy and opticality.

The opticality is just the sexy part, the by - product of the real issue at hand, which is structure.»

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.

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

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

During his undergraduate years at Princeton University, he 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.

PETER DEMOS» current body of black and white monochromes addresses themes of opticality, repetition, and surface.

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.

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.