Sentences with phrase «photographic illusionism»

Thus, despite the power of the photographic illusionism, the abstract qualities are strong.

Not exact matches

Additional highlights include Helen Frankenthaler's Belfry and February Turn (both 1979), which mimic the look and feel of Abstract Expressionism yet in truth represent a rupture with that tradition through the use of a staining technique that seemingly minimizes the artist's role in the process; Frank Stella's Double Scramble (1978), whose nested squares, color contrasts, and pulsing optical effects bridge the artist's early minimalism and later illusionism; and Robert Rauschenberg's Golden Chalice (1989) which, insofar as it marries abstraction and representation and juxtaposes gestural brushwork and photographic media, affords a crucial link to late 20th - century abstraction.

I wouldn't put these in an abstract expressionist camp; like Gomez's, there's a photographic, calculated illusionism makes them look magically impressionistic at first and less interesting upon further inspection.

Utilizing the modern computer - aided methods of tapestry, Close is now able to approximate, in woven images, the mirror - like illusionism characteristic of the 19th Century photographic glass daguerreotype.