Sentences with phrase «paint on a flat plane»

If Abstract Expressionists had proposed art as the manipulation of paint on a flat plane, the American artist Dan Flavin further refined art as the manipulation of light itself.

Not exact matches

Creating an image on, in and behind this material plane, the paintings alternation from «flat» to «deep», when simply viewed from the front and then the side.

(Beal didn't actually align himself with Hard Edge movement, Mr. Adams told the Observer, but in addition to the paintings he completed in those years, he studied flat planes and toyed with spacial illusions exhaustively in a multi-year, diaristic sketchbook titled The Form Book, also on view in the gallery.)

The words sit on the picture plane, creating a play between the painting as a flat surface and as a window opening onto the illusion of deep space.

In this sense, they not only recall suggestive dadaïst machines but also bring back under discussion the modernist rhetoric on the painting as a «flat plane».

Oscillating between two separate works, Thomas's painted homage to Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech of Black female empowerment, «Ain't I a Woman,» and a religious altarpiece, Diptych presents the sexy, Black female body sculpted out of flat planes of primary colors in two dimensions on the left (a gesture reminiscent of the painterly techniques of her idols Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden), and in a televised two dimensions on the right.

Yet he made a crucial decision to stay with painting, with the flat plane on the wall.

Yet, enlivened by an expressive, though always economical, touch, her work resonates just as strongly as a sustained, self - reflexive enquiry into the act of painting: what it might take to bring an image into being on a bounded, flat plane.

In his paintings Moffett extends the traditional two - dimensional frame in a number of ways, including converting the ordinariness of the flat plane into highly textured reliefs, making paintings that are opened up and turned inside out, or presenting intricate illuminations through the use of video projections on the canvas.

The reviewer of this show in Arts Magazine described the work as «strong non-objective shapes painted with bald simplicity on a flat - plane background, usually grey.»

Drawing on inspirations ranging from Buddhism and American modernist painting to psychedelia and Amy Winehouse, Brooklyn - based painter Chris Martin (born 1954) «lets the paintings make themselves,» with often generously scaled canvases characterized by flat yet textured planes of bright, saturated color, frequently incorporating found materials and highly personal paper ephemera.

Johns's work during this era, in which he sometimes juxtaposed sculptural elements with the flat planes of painting or painted directly on sculptures, were described by critic Leo Steinberg as radically new.

In the next room — a low - ceilinged former workshop — Barlow gathered pipes, planks and flattened cardboard boxes, taping them together to form a ceiling - scratching bundle, clad on one side with a mosaic of irregularly sized, painted rectangles of plywood joined into a flat sheet to form a canvas - insinuating plane (untitled: stashhoarding).

For example, in a painting on paper from c. 1946 - 1949 inscribed and gifted to Anni Albers, Asawa uses subtle modifications in color and form to create a sense of depth and motion within the otherwise flat picture plane.

In contrast to my work on canvas, I originally called the paintings on wood panel «billboard paintings», due to their catchy and iconic imagery and the use of flat planes of colour that is reminiscent of the style often used on billboards.

Her delicate works echo Islamic and Persian traditional motifs and are painted on wooden panels with flat planes filled with pattern.

And I think there is a tremendous distinction between this kind of internalized abstraction and what Greenberg called color field painting, which is nothing but color design on a flat plane.

The mural, a flat plane of bright discs and angled lines painted on the side of a women's prison, is titled «Venus» and was designed in 1970 by Knox Martin, an artist who had been associated with the New York School of painters.

The paintings, again, were like objects because these were not flat planes, and then what he did with the plate paintings was that he expanded the canvas even more into three - dimensionality and transformed the existence of the painting as something that does not live solely on a flat plane, but has a presence, a volume and an inherent complexity.

A Geometric Hard - Edge «Abstract» shapes in a flat pictorial plane, Painting: Acrylic on linen, 58 x 44 inches, 2013

Over the years, Ms. Sherald's figurative painting has evolved into a stylized realism — a gray skin palette punctuated by colorful pieces of clothing on a flat plane.

Cézanne's solid planes of color insist on the surface of the painting as a flat field against which the painter acts.

In a constantly shifting flat plane, building and art materials, urban detritus, and domestic items make their way into Alex Hubbard's two new videos, EAT YOUR FRIENDS and BOTTOM OF THE TOP, and now on to his paintings too.

During the 70s, he continued innovating - this time by rejecting his former emphasis on the flat, 2 - D nature of the picture plane, and incorporating collage, felt, wood and other materials into the new «relief paintings» of his Polish Village series (1970 - 1973).

Encapsulating his distinctive «push and pull» technique of implying space while asserting the primacy of the flat canvas, Auxerre demonstrates the robust way in which Hofmann's paintings dramatize the dynamic oscillation between volumes and voids on the one hand and two - dimensional color planes on the other.

In this painting the hexagonal motifs float in a space that I can not help but see as deeper than the two - dimensional flat plane that I know it is and that the painting itself keeps reminding me it is, by the refusal to open up a window on the world of recognizable objects, almost as if I find myself at the moment where perception attempts to become cognition and the attempt is continually thwarted.

You are painting flat things — books, photographs, and reproductions, for example — that are «placed» on a severely tilted plane.

For instance, he paints the corners of flat planes folded over like a dog - eared page to reveal a surface of a different color on the illusionary verso.