Sentences with phrase «pictorial field»

The square pictorial field is divided into eleven horizontal bands of white, blue and peach acrylic paint.

The square pictorial field is divided into fourteen horizontal bands of equal width, alternating in colour between white and peach, with pale blue used for the top one and bottom two bands.

Bas distorts the conventional pictorial field by compressing the foreground and background, and by altering the perceived depth of the spaces in which his figures exist.

An essential part of his compositional process has been to select precisely the right image out of the many thousands of possibilities he has on hand and incorporate this image into a larger pictorial field.

It's a roomy, mixed bag of themes... Simonian's paintings... knit luscious pictorial fields that tease cognition, along with the senses.»

Gorchov belongs to a generation of painters who removed their canvases from the rectangular stretcher, seeking a new pictorial field, yet he is unique in his ability to unite form and content while preserving their tensions.

Characterised by a near - blank pictorial field delimited by a thickly drawn line, Law simultaneously produced two groups of works during the 1960s that explored the play between darkness and lightness: the densely coloured «closed» drawings and the sparse «open» drawings.

Within all of his fascinating pictorial fields, the artist presents us with new visions of illusionistic space through his navigation of paint that is both innovative and assured.

Her method generates an unstable pictorial field that trembles like an electric current passing through a fluorescent lamp, though it's founded on the grid, a device that usually provides compositional predictability.

In his recent work, González seems to want to test the power of his own reinvention of the pictorial field by veiling starkly divided compositions with the sort of tremulous grid that not even he could duplicate from one painting to the next.

In Underground Fantasy (Subway)(c. 1940), Rothko uses absurdly elongated figures to divide the pictorial field into squared - off areas of incident.

By marking the edges of the paintings, she calls attention to their shape as significant, while the nebulous contents of the pictorial field — lacking the order and legibility of the grid — offer few clues to its inner structure and encourage the viewer to lose sight of place.

The large - scale panels both occupy and activate the walls on which they hang, expanding the pictorial field of the viewer, creating subtly undulated spatial and perceptual references.

Disturbing the pictorial field of these canvases, thick, densely clustered black strokes burst through heavily pigmented colorful patches ranging in tone from radiant azure and blazing orange, to fleshy pink and deep forest green.

Reflection on surface, its material condition and the expansion of the pictorial field occupy a significant place in contemporary artistic practices.

Grosse's large scale and site - specific works engulf both interior and exterior spaces, unhindered by the traditional boundaries of the pictorial field.

Grosse's large scale and site - specific works engulf both interior and exterior spaces, and are unhindered by the traditional boundaries of the pictorial field.

Leo Steinberg uses the term postmodernism in 1969 to describe Rauschenberg's «flatbed» picture plane, containing a range of cultural images and artifacts that had not been compatible with the pictorial field of premodernist and modernist painting.

But nor can the hard edges conquer the pictorial field decisively for a more comprehensive, quantifiable, graphic regime.

Grosse's large - scale and site - specific works engulf both interior and exterior spaces, unhindered by the traditional boundaries of the pictorial field.

Their pictorial fields create whole environments that are simultaneously immense and intimate; a final destination and a dynamic, directed action.

In DeFeo's renderings, however, the intense play of light and shadow cuts the pictorial field with a pallor and darkness so intense that innocuous things become eerily deathly.

The matter was an intuitive one, aleatory in one sense, yet with a subtle harmony of the body and mind interacting upon and within the pictorial field.

The range of textures — slick, matte, flat, chunky — cause the background to step out from the pictorial field into actual space, while the color slicks pool into biomorphic forms.

Her paintings evoke what she calls «color desire,» as the fluidity of the forms engage us in seeking color resolutions across the pictorial field, while drawing us to the different spaces that the colors occupy and the ways they attract and repel each other.

Her drawings explore flora at a molecular level, utilizing the depth of her pictorial field to endow her subjects with an ancient, almost primordial age.

AS AGNES MARTIN and Anne Truitt used them, the two time - honored disciplines, painting and sculpture, pictorial field and solid object, remained importantly distinct.

One of the most significant living artists, Riley's work has radically explored the active role of perception in art, using the interrelationship between line and color to convey movement and light within the pictorial field.

Painting as a dead surface with signs on it, Warhol's rather than Pollock's or Cézanne's version of the pictorial field, where the surface is itself alive.

Rather than articulate universal visual codes for collective mobilization, these works reduce the specific lives and experiences of those represented in the images to a pictorial field for the artist to play upon; the fetishized beauty of documented protest rendered even more beautiful, and even less capable of stimulating social change, by its sublimation through the commercially - viable language of abstract painting.