Not only a master of paint and texture, with Restituzioni Marco Grassi
paints pure sensation of all our senses.
Not exact matches
This quest to capture
pure optical
sensation goes back to the Impressionists, who argued that their
paintings were more faithful to actual visual experience than were the carefully drawn and shaded compositions of the Salon painters.
With a deep and vivid palette and dynamic interchanges of light and dark, these
paintings — always executed in oil on wooden panels — collapse the usual binary distinctions between abstraction and representation, narrative and
pure sensation, past and present.
In what he calls «butterfly»
paintings, Grotjahn builds a sensory world, gripped by curiosity and wonder, the visible and the invisible, in which we encounter the specters of modernism, and indeed, in which we find our perception transformed from
pure optical
sensation into motive power and emotional energy.
«Visual
Sensations: The
Paintings of Robert Swain: 1967 — 2010» presents fifteen gallery rooms of color work by the longtime Hunter professor in an exhibition curated by his colleague Gabriele Evertz, a
pure color painter I wrote about here in June 2009.
With a deep and vivid palette and dynamic interchanges of light and dark, these
paintings, collapse the usual binary distinctions between Abstraction and Representation, narrative and
pure sensation, past and present.
His work combines the gesture of abstract expressionism with a reliance on the
sensations of
pure color typical of color - field
painting.
These
paintings do not belong to the category of abstract
painting that moves far from society and strives for
pure sensation but rather stand as circumstantial recordings of information, drawing together the complexity of social information and the purity of abstract
painting and perhaps ultimately reducing different social, environmental, and individual actions into colors and shapes that represent different forms of information.