Sentences with phrase «pictorial illusionism»

Influenced by Clement Greenberg's theory of picture - plane flatness, and with an innate desire to reduce the medium of painting to its basic attributes, the Robert Ryman sought to do away with pictorial illusionism all together.

In New York in the 1960s, Judd was among the first in a group of artists who challenged notions of subjectivity and pictorial illusionism by creating art from industrial processes and materials.

He embraced the European tradition of pictorial illusionism while employing decidedly low or «pop» imagery.

Not exact matches

Visiting Robert Ruello's third solo exhibition at Inman Gallery, I was reminded of the term «abstract illusionism,» which critic Barbara Rose coined in the late 1960s to describe painters using trompe - l'oeuil devices to create spatial and other pictorial illusions in non-representational painting.

In the sixties pictorial space was uniformly flat, from Ellsworth Kelly to Roy Lichtenstein, whereas in the UK, I can not think of any pop artist who did not employ some sort of illusionism.

The contemporary abstract artists are of an almost religious temper in their sense of dedication, and will themselves into a highly conscious pictorial celibacy in defiance of traditional, nineteenth - century illusionism.