Sentences with phrase «physical painting functions»
[2] Coined by the influential art critic Clement Greenberg in his essay called «Modernist Painting», the phrase «integrity of the picture plane» has come to denote how the flat surface of the physical painting functions in older as opposed to more recent works.
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We were both affected by the way those sounds functioned in the Rothko Chapel, but we were also very aware of how the physical presence of the paintings alters one's emotional interaction with anything that goes on in that space.
In both her paintings and drawings, light functions as a palpable, lucid, physical presence with the capacity to illuminate the world as well as to cast it into darkness.
Through paint, pixel, word, and fabric she creates work that functions as a bridge between the hypothetical and the physical, objects operate as artifacts of personal - as - political discovery formulated within a landscape balancing between nihilism and mysticism.
Stingel's carpets actually function more as interventions into surrounding architecture, in a manner related to the methods of the French artist Daniel Buren, who has installed his striped paint ngs and banners on walls, ceilings, windows, storefronts, and outdoor benches, partly to call attention to their environments, both physical and political.
Working with acrylics on un-stretched canvas, and limiting himself to the temporal constraints of quick - to - dry paint, the works function as archives of the physical act of painting, and as tools to record the passing of time.
Baldock has developed his own physical language of material and colour, creating things that function as sculptures, props and paintings.
Buren's works continue to explore the role and function of the artist, the limits and context of the practice of painting and sculpture, and the relationship between art and the structures that frame it, including the physical environment.
Like the whirling dervishes, for whom their twirling dance is one of the physical methods used to reach religious ecstasy, these paintings have a similar (though more secular) function.