Not exact matches
In the mural - size Shaking Out the Bed, figures, seen perhaps
from the side, maybe lying down, reaching to the
painting's right side to the dials there to adjust perspectival
vantage point, appear
from above, slip into
different pictorial spaces, or try to get outside the frame.
A couple of years after Red Boat, Doig
painted another group of boys in a red boat — Figures in a Red Boat (2005 - 2007)-- and they're wearing white shirts, to, but we see them
from a difference
vantage point, less far away, rendered with less intensity or a
different kind of intensity.
Thinking of
painting as a form of technology is a very interesting
vantage point, because if you consider the whole sweep of
different mediums that artists are employing today —
from video and virtual reality to immersive installation and performance — then
painting becomes the least optimized medium for avant - garde curators to engage the kinds of crowds that come to biennials and exhibitions.
Shara Hughes's
paintings place the viewer at a high
vantage point within technicolor boundaries that clearly denote the space of entry as
different or separate
from the landscape below.
Varying in size and placed in
different vantage points from the top to the bottom of the gallery walls, Gorchov's diverse
painted objects create a playful dialogue with each other.
His work has been compared to the intoxicatingly atmospheric qualities of a Mark Rothko and Dan Flavin's neon bars of light, and Bavington's
paintings, a bit like Rothko's, appear to alter slightly when viewed
from different vantage points, the clean stripes blurring when seen up - close, to mesmerizing effect.»