Sentences with phrase «paintings transgressed»

As with Grosse's previous work, such as her 2003 installation in Toronto's Pearson International Airport, the painting transgresses the architectural boundaries of the space, moving over multiple surfaces and onto adjoining walls in a strong diagonal direction.

Not exact matches

Back in New York, immersed in the circle of artists known as the New York School and with Cage and Cunningham's avant - garde influence as a foil, Rauschenberg explored many of the central ideas of Abstract Expressionism, both acknowledging and transgressing the movement's emphasis on gesture, individualism, action, and direct expression through paint.

Collection, as Walter Hopps observed, is probably the first of Rauschenberg's works to evince all the characteristics of a Combine, that hybrid of painting and sculpture that the artist developed in the 1950s.1 Yet, despite the challenge to conventional categories posed by its collage and the addition of objects that transgress the limits of frame and picture plane, Collection stands primarily as a reflection on the contemporary status of painting.

Some works can be viewed as sculpture that has moved to the wall or as painting that has moved to the floor, though, at times, these boundaries have been transgressed more than once before settling into place.

Spanning the years 1962 - 1968, Actionism was a provocative performance movement with roots in postwar gestural abstraction (Action Painting) that sought to transgress the conservative Viennese social climate by using the body as material in violent, explicit, sometimes sexual Aktions.

He seems less drawn to transgressing the physical boundaries of media — although he does combine drawing and painting — than in expanding art's capacity for direct emotional expression and radical vulnerability.

This catalog collects 27 full - color illustrations of these paintings, along with generous examples of Slutzky's earlier work, to critically examine how the painter's manipulation of color and transparency have transgressed the modernist canon of flatness.

In the early days, Opie transgressed the boundaries between painting and sculpture by applying paint to the everyday articles he used in his steel objects.

What codes of painting remain to be transgressed?

I was uptown the other day and I saw an exhibition of the first upside - down paintings that Georg Baselitz exhibited, and I thought of the similarities between your paintings and his, the way you both created a formula for transgressing how the viewer looks at the painting.

All these painterly steps in the creation of his «empty, black paintings» transgress all monochromatic approaches.

Bold, suggestive, and challenging, her paintings, sculptures, and built - out reliefs transgress conventions with great intelligence and mischief.