Sentences with phrase «pictorial depth»

«Liquid Villa» shifts between lucid, crisp dream architecture and colorful, blurring abstraction, unsettling the viewer between pictorial depth and flatness.

As a general rule no use is made of linear perspective to create the illusion of pictorial depth, neither is impasto emplyed to create textural effects.

In Winter Landscape 2 (2007), for example, shifts in scale and value among the tree trunks in the background strongly suggest pictorial depth, contradicted by the graphic treatment of the foreground trees» branches.

He then eliminated pictorial depth for a field of color in the 1950s, calling the works Magical Space Forms to recognize the importance of the flattened space.

Previously, Parrott played with pictorial depth by building up veil - like layers of pigmentation through a complex process of dying and screen - printing.

And in the hey day of Modernism, critics like Clement Greenberg pursued a narrative which saw Modernist painting as a «peculiar form of tunnel vision leading away from pictorial depth and compositional complexity towards flatness, all - overness and the absence of association.»

And initially tapestry was really good for me because it has very little pictorial depth - things float in space, and nothing recedes; it's all on the same plane - which is how I paint.

Though not a self - taught artist, Kerry James Marshall has chosen to incorporate aspects of outsider art into his practice, placing the flat forms of his simplified figures within a shallow pictorial depth.

For me, Berlind's approach to pictorial depth also metaphorically suggested that all things are (ideally) created equal, and that the hierarchies we impose on life are essentially artificial and divisive.»

Without a visual anchor, viewers can only drift within the spaces in which grid and cross intermingle, uncomfortably caught between two - and three - dimensional spaces where boundaries between pictorial depth and surface flatness begin to get fuzzy.

Collage, one of Pablo Picasso's and Georges Braque's innovations, yields a variety of departures, from Max Ernst's mix - and - morph creations to Lee Krasner's cannibalization of her own failed drawings, which she tore up and recombined to create a new kind of pictorial depth.

Surface Truths: Abstract Painting in the Sixties considers the work of 17 artists and the directions they pursued as they moved away from an aesthetic that supported a self - evident creative process to an aesthetic seeking to expunge gesture, pictorial depth and illusion.

Like in Medieval tapestries, where there is tension between the pictorial depth and the flatness of the woven surfaces, my paintings hover in a similar duality.

For his first New York solo show, 34 - year - old German painter Leonhard Hurzlmeier gives us a master class in simple shapes taking on erotic and pictorial depth.

Surface Truths: Abstract Painting in the Sixties considers the work of 17 artists and the directions they pursued as they moved away from an aesthetic that supported a self - evident creative process to an aesthetic seeking to erase gesture, pictorial depth and illusion.