Sentences with phrase «pictorial conventions»

Deconstructing pictorial conventions of the past, artists of the second half of the twentieth and early twenty - first century reinvented the picture plane.

Converging abstraction with traditional landscape painting, Allen reinvigorates pictorial conventions to explore the relationship between material and surface.

I was in uncharted territory and my usual pictorial conventions wouldn't work so I was forced to stack elements or pinch them closer together.

Fine Pictorial Convention.

By reversing hierarchies of foreground and background and making incongruous compositional choices, both artists upend pictorial conventions and invite viewers to consider painting's inherent falsity while acknowledging its potential as a catalyst for communication and ideation.

Unlike them, Ryden embraces the monotony of obsolete pictorial convention and celebrates the illustrative.

This segmented compositional method was favored briefly among New York painters following influential exhibitions held at MoMA in the early 1940s that concentrated on Pre-Columbian and Native American pictorial conventions.

Representing an array of ideological approaches from different times and geographically distributed locales, such artists as Barnett Newman, Piet Mondrian, and Josef Albers radically abandoned pictorial conventions that signified what it meant to see in a human way.

But rather than focusing on a specific artist or time period, as in the previous Thiebaud and Early American works, the new series references a pictorial convention within painting as a whole.

A Place in Time draws on the pictorial conventions Lockett developed in Rebirth and other early works: the use of paint - stiffened cloth to represent earth and the incorporation of scrap lumber and branches to act as abstract cyphers (here, the deer's body and legs).

A work like «Men and Game» explores a pictorial convention — images of men (mostly) with the carcasses of the animals they have slain.

Recalling that Robert Rauschenberg once made paintings out of dirt, Storr concludes, «It's both the pictorial conventions and the material qualities of an object that make it a painting.

Deconstructing the pictorial conventions of the past, artists of the second half of the twentieth and early twenty - first century reinvented the picture plane.

The artists employ various techniques to tear away and supplant the legibility of images, retooling mechanisms and pictorial conventions, all the while adding their own meanings in the process.

For certain observers, painting on such non-conformist supports, or relying on the pictorial conventions of the decorative arts, is still a way to brave prohibitions.

Buchanan's earlier work is self - consciously eclectic; pictorial conventions and styles are subsumed within a technique so facile it is ultimately cloying.

In doing so they broke with hundreds of years of pictorial convention, yet their experiments remain largely unrecognised.

The paintings fluctuate between the past and present, and between the pictorial convention of landscapes and abstract color fields.