Sentences with phrase «painterly illusion»

But a longer look reveals more abstract concerns with painterly illusion.

«Along the way, her work has gained focus, depth and provocativeness... Morgan has moved toward straight - on portraits that display a welcome new level of technical and conceptual sophistication... The effect of these interventions is to disrupt the painterly illusion of the realism and make clear the presence of the artist's hand, creating a fascinating duality that gives these pieces depth and elevates them above so much other work of this kind.»

Rockburne's shaped canvas Capernum Gate (1984) is infused with a sense of illumination that is a painterly illusion.

Butler's work rejects traditional painterly illusion and depth and embraces real - ness, inhabiting space in a way more akin to sculpture.

The birch assemblages function both as pictures and sculptures, always insisting on their dual spatial presence and painterly illusion.

Not exact matches

One room holds seemingly flat, colorless constructions composed of woven strips of canvas that, from a distance, look like monochrome paintings or fabric, but which when viewed from near and then farther away yield not only painterly shadings but also an unexpected burst of optical illusion, as evidenced in Chiral Fret (Meander) / Extrusion / Ghost (2015).

Marden and others almost fetishize painterly materials, as they explore the illusion of depth that a subtle, almost neutral surface will convey.

The painterly effects that interest him suggest energy that flows, the expansion and compression of form, the diversion of a line, the spatial illusions of colour.

His work explored a painterly paradox in which pictorial illusion and spatial perception grapple.

Not only do the ribbons of paper that activate the work's surface create the illusion of a range of color values, there are other unexpected painterly effects to perceive.

You know, all that critical agonizing over formalism and mere illusion, the linear and the painterly, or the death of Modernism and the death of irony.

Ryman's art has often been described as Minimalist or Conceptual, while he prefers to use the term realistic, aiming not to create illusions with paint but to investigate the concrete presentation of painterly materials.

The artist's bridging of a painterly formalist critique with a slack objectivity, from Richter to Warhol and back again, undergirds this show in a playful suspension of the often - fraught debate between the dogmatically formal and the informality of associative illusion.

Instead of creating a realist effect through the illusion of depth, Cézanne experimented with painterly elements.

The artists whose work principally addresses painterly issues — Emily Berger, Hovey Brock, and Karen Nielsen - Fried — all rely to a greater or lesser degree on the illusion of space to move the viewer's experience of color in their work beyond the simply decorative.

Here's a selection of pieces using optical illusions, tricks of photography, and painterly finesse that will leave you seeing double.

More than any paintings of recent memory, Saulnier's merge painted illusion and painterly gesture into a compelling vision that embraces 19th - century articulation without definitively describing anything.

The artist's painterly process utilizes various digital photographic editing tools and software in her meticulous manipulations of tonality, brightness, and saturation to create an illusion of depth.

Though this was an accidental remainder, a result of painterly process, and not an intended illusion, she did leave it.

With respect to all possible relationships between forms (compression vs. expansion, darkness vs. lightness, static vs. movement, flatness vs. illusion), her painterly ambition has never been more cogent.

His brightly coloured painting - with its flat, razor - edged imagery, influenced by contemporary techniques of Post Painterly Abstraction and the decor of pinball machines - typically uses single words, or commands, billboard - style - to highlight different aspects of American culture, including the illusion and disillusion of love.

She separates hard - edge shapes with painterly passages of carefully modulated markings, and she uses subtle tonal shifts to create an illusion of overlapping planes of transparent color.

Here, in this painterly fantasy, all sense of depth and surface, distance and proximity, materiality and illusion have been lost, the landscape transforming before us as if in a dream.

This concretizes the painterly gesture and reduces the possibility of these paintings functioning as illusions.»