Sentences with phrase «paintings pictorial space»

In many ways the paintings pictorial space conveys a wide - ranging examination of how gardens evoke the human condition.

In Dustin London's new paintings pictorial space is something malleable, shifting, and subversive.

Not exact matches

I might ask participants in one of my workshops to make a bright painting that celebrates the color gray in order to make them think more deeply about the variety of ways gray can function in pictorial space.»

While each adjustment is undertaken to orchestrate and tighten the relation of each pictorial unit to every other pictorial unit, to secure formally the integrity of each painting as a whole, the overall effect of the process is also to enliven the space, to acknowledge its flatness while simultaneously allowing it visually to twist and warp and bend, to project and recede, to be positive and negative — and thus to explore and personalize what's become natural to pictorial space since Cezanne and Cubism radicalized it more than a century ago.

Painting in what is now considered a signature style characterized by flattened planes of color, shallow pictorial space, and lean, reductive but acutely descriptive lines, Katz sought to convey the appearance of things as they are both felt and perceived in the «present tense,» the now.

Lisa Sigal brings architecture and painting into dialogue by creating a series of physically inaccessible rooms that can only be viewed as pictorial spaces.

«Among the wildly disparate features of today's art - world landscape, two modes of pictorial thought with venerable lineages have recently re-emerged: materials - oriented abstract painting, and a linear approach to the investigation of the third dimension that may conveniently be referred to as «drawing in space.»

His kaleidoscopic compositions of overlapping grids and patterns create complex pictorial spaces, and his use of transparent pigments allows the viewer to see, as the artist has said, «all the events that went into the making of the painting.»

Because the colors in a Fauve painting are of similar saturation or intensity, the pictorial space appears flatter, with objects seeming to be closer to the surface of the painting.

Challenging and re-inventing ideas about pictorial space, the paintings on view relate to Color Field painting and Op Art, and reflect Fangor's distinctive use of saturated color and blurred silhouettes to create striking abstract forms and mesmerizing optical illusions.

Artist Statement Shara Hughes» new paintings present layers of abstracted, actual and pictorial space, all in search of simplicity.

At the same time, her almost decorative technique of making human and animal figures components of formal composition, through the arrangement, or insertion, of color fields within the pictorial space, credits Kudo as an aspiring successor of the modernist formal painting championed by Matisse»

«In Kudo's painting, the expansion and arrangement of color areas within the pictorial space become the dominant means of communicating the picture's emotional content.

In 1974, in reference to a New York gallery show by Judy Rifka, Jeremy Gilbert - Rolfe wrote that the artist addressed «the question most crucial to painting in general at the present time: the question as to how far the — currently compromised — abstract «depth» of pictorial space can be newly considered — retrieved — through attention to the material basis of the conventions on which that experience of «depth» relies.»

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.

His watercolors, gouache, and oil paintings not only explore and expand the conventions of still - life painting, but also illuminate the relationship between pictorial space and depicted objects.

medium to emphasize the slippage between painting, film, photography, pictorial space, and performative space.

Through the use of materials such as nylon flocking, which is a material commonly found in wallpaper, sand, resin and acrylic paint, the highly physical surfaces create a sense of deep pictorial space.

John Weightman as Francis Bacon: Full Face and in Profile, Oxford 1983, pl.101 (col.) H. Platschek, «Francis Bacon: Alle Kunst ist Instinkt», Art: Das Kunstmagazin, no. 10, Oct. 1984, p. 34 (col.) Wieland Schmied, Francis Bacon: Vier Studien zu einem Porträt, Berlin 1985, p. 127, pl.170 Friedhelm Mennekes, «Francis Bacon: Distanzierung vom Augenschein - Transformation des Mythischen», Kunst und Kirche, no. 1, 1986, p. 36 Michel Leiris, Francis Bacon, London 1988, pl.94 (col.) Wieland Schmied, Francis Bacon: Commitment and Conflict, Munich and New York 1996, [p. 131], pl.38 (col.) Into a typically restricted pictorial space Bacon brought together the four protagonists listed in the painting's title: Three Figures and Portrait.

While Pistoletto has typically relied on the mirror's reflective surface to seamlessly integrate pictorial space with the physical space of the viewer, the Scaffali paintings appear to complicate this relationship.

Easel painting was intimate and required the viewer to slowly lean into the pictorial space; large compositions immediately confronted the onlooker from afar.

By contrast, in Nicholson's 1937 (painting), planes of primary, secondary and tertiary colours group around a red square, creating a pictorial space with potential associations.

Mr. Burban encourages individuality of expression through an exact analysis of the elements used to draw or paint the figure in compositional structure and pictorial space.

«By the early 1980s, Brodsky's approach involved an exploration of flattened pictorial space built up from layers of pigment that create an overall surface pattern of light and shade, the whole animated by energetic ribbons of color that dance across the canvas as a record of the artist's spontaneous gesture, attesting to his engagement with the process of painting itself,» wrote Chalif.

In these paintings, images are often cropped and lack a specific point of spatial reference, such as a horizon line, thus inviting a contemplative experience and generating the feeling of immersion in Katz's open - ended pictorial space.

«Current Locations» also speaks to these artists» affinity with creating a sense of place (or places): painter Barbara Marks creates voluminous pictorial & interior spaces with her deeply saturated color palette; Elise Church paints intimate environments based on her travels in space in time; Colombian artist, Esperanza Cortés incorporates natural resources and folklore motifs from her homeland as a means of exploring personal identity; Kyle Vu - Dunn sculpts warped «natural» environments to harbor the self; and Viviane Rombaldi Seppey blends world maps (with emphasis on places she's lived) with morbid imagery from traditional medical textbooks.

The paintings highlight enduring interests and motifs in Hockney's work: art history, pictorial space and portraiture.

Often they are cropped, cut, fold, pierced, stitched, sanded and manipulated, these works refer to many of painting's most long running concerns - genre and narrative, pictorial space and illusion, and color and texture.

Alongside this three - dimensional structure, highly delicate pencil lines suggest two - dimensional cartographic views, which are then themselves again complemented in the pictorial space by photography and painting.

In the 1960s, a similar passage through the endpoint of modernist painting would be charted by Minimalism in the passage from pictorial to real space.

While stylistic references include turn - of - the - century Nordic figurative painting, folk art, and local or contemporary vernacular, her evocative use of pictorial space and her juxtapositions of thick paint and textured washes is uniquely her own.

Stäglich's abstract works are based on her examination of colour painting as well as her interest in the expansion of the pictorial space into the real space.

(«Hopper bets everything on composition, which, in his work, is almost as tautly considered as in a Mondrian,» Schjeldahl wrote in his 2007 review, in which he also advised viewers to sketch Hopper's paintings in order to better grasp them: «Just get the main shapes, including those of empty space, and how they nest together in the pictorial rectangle.»)

A degree of mannerism is apparent in his later paintings, in which wraithlike figures «float in a watery netherworld» in a deeper pictorial space than that of his compositions of the 1930s.

The last decade or so of Roberts's paintings reveals more intense colour, more open pictorial space, less enclosed or silhouetted forms, and more intense handling of the materials.

Since taking up landscape painting in the early 1970s, Rackstraw Downes has devised and refined a quirky brand of realism in which close attention to visual fact vies with an idiosyncratic conception of pictorial space.

This survey of paintings by the late Dan Christensen (1942 — 2007) documents his never - ending quest to understand the possibilities of color, paint, and pictorial space.

Regarding «Shadow Brigade», Sarah has noted that people were discussing it, looking at it, talking about moving around the complex transitions of pictorial spaces of the painting in a manner quite comparable to that of looking at and moving around in a complex spatial figurative painting — BUT, it is now clear that this is not a quality restricted to figurative painting, and this particular quality of how the eye takes in and moves around imaginatively in the work is just a natural condition of all painting once it starts to develop and mature and take on synthesised complexity to any degree.

This is an exit out of the picture, but the language of the painting forms a ligament to the edifice, connecting the pictorial, conceptual, and physical spaces through the established language of color and form in the painting.

Much like her paintings in the past two iterations of NDA, the artist's new series of geometric abstraction becomes even more architectural as she continues her study of visually defining «place», giving the viewer a sense of being able to walk into and inhabit the pictorial «space».

These paintings might also encourage us to speculate how Stella's attraction to the use of shallow pictorial space and bright fluorescent pigments helped him to approach his goal, the absolute beauty of the Netherlandish masterpiece.»

Even with his intended catholic aopproach, painting and the two - dimensional flattened spatial constructs of pictorial space overwhelmingly predominate.

Wilmerding explores unconventional use of signatures in paintings, focusing on American artists who have placed their signature within the pictorial space of the canvas.

The result was sometimes odd but always elegant: arching forms appear like wedged shoehorns within the pictorial space, gently exposing painting's material infrastructure.

Among the many lessons Bultman learned from Hofmann, the building of a positive instead of recessive pictorial space is the compositional coup that makes these paintings so effective on the massive white marble walls.

As with some of her paintings, McIntosh worked in a shallow pictorial space, decisively arranging and re-arranging forms over the colored sheets.

On first glance, many of his paintings look like pictorial space populated by shapes resembling Sol LeWitt sculptures.

Ferris is best known for her large, multi-layered paintings that depict glimmering pictorial spaces, inspired by various subjects including digital image pixelation, New York City graffiti and city lights that are visible from her Brooklyn studio at night.

Crafting each piece with a variety of tools and paints, including knives, spatulas, paper towels and large brushes, Belag explores the pictorial space with both meditative purpose and fortuitous movement.

Extending from the late 1970s to today, this selection of work reaches beyond the limitations of medium to emphasize the slippage between painting, film, photography, pictorial space, and performative space.