Sentences with phrase «pictorial quality»

My point is that the «defeat of objecthood» — and therefore the achievement of abstraction, which is the same as the achievement of pictorial quality — is never secure but always unstable, and this instability expresses the fact that the defeat of objecthood (and therefore the achievement of abstraction) is not and can not be a quality that is predicated (once and for all) of things in the world (like color, shape, weight and so on).

It is not too far - fetched to say that the renunciation of naturalist illusion and the development of pictorial quality alone as the real content of the work of art have taken on the character of a profound spiritual commitment.

The work signifies Schnabel's affinity for linguistic reference, and for the formal and pictorial quality of the letters themselves.

The eye makes that illusionist pictorial quality happen.

The artist estranges these symbols from their usual context and allows their pictorial quality to assume greater prominence.

Because of these details, the models have a strong pictorial quality, while at the same time their spatial dimension is underlined by thick layers of paint.

Rafael Carneiro's work is articulated precisely around this very contrast between the quality of the scene recorded by these security devices and the pictorial quality expected of a screen.

In line with the Dada poets, Wynne embraces the visual component of words to bring out the pictorial quality of each letter.

The pictorial quality of her photographic tableaux correlates with their documentary value: about life on a ship, old vessels, or boat communities; about ways of seeing and ways of doing, yet they also invite us to experience the density and transparency of time.

And there is the secret that Yossifor hides behind her work: the paintings are abstract but there is absolutely a pictorial quality to them.

Working from multiple elements, including standard definition video masters and a 35 mm film print, a project team created a new uncropped, high definition digital master that better represents the pictorial quality of the original videography, so this will be a very special screening indeed.

Considering that Heineman landed in a few shootouts while making this documentary, both his camera moves and its pictorial quality are striking.

Considering that Mr. Heineman landed in a few shootouts while making this documentary, both his camera moves and its pictorial quality are striking.

Although Moon's shaped canvases blur the distinctions between sculpture and painting, the artist was always eager to assert the pictorial qualities of his works.

In another room, two cubes, one by Larry Bell and the other by John McCracken, stand as hybrids between slick interior design and mysterious monoliths, while nearby, Craig Kauffman's work uses industrial materials, such as acrylic, to express unexpected pictorial qualities.

The modernist sculptures of Los Angeles - based artist Amir Nikravan are painterly hybrids that strain to negate the physicality of sculpture in favor of the pictorial qualities of painting.

Not exact matches

Some of the qualities explored were a conscious shift to complexity, content, mystical, psychological and pictorial relationships, asymmetrical composition, expressive color, feeling and a depiction of the landscape of the mind.

To contemporary eyes, their pictorial strength is so self - evident, so enduringly fresh, you have to chuckle at those pundits who a half - century ago deemed Post Painterly Abstraction (both the style and the exhibition) a failed «rescue action for quality» against the «turgidities» of certain kinds of abstraction on the one hand and the vapidity of «newfangled art» on the other.

Regarding «Shadow Brigade», Sarah has noted that people were discussing it, looking at it, talking about moving around the complex transitions of pictorial spaces of the painting in a manner quite comparable to that of looking at and moving around in a complex spatial figurative painting — BUT, it is now clear that this is not a quality restricted to figurative painting, and this particular quality of how the eye takes in and moves around imaginatively in the work is just a natural condition of all painting once it starts to develop and mature and take on synthesised complexity to any degree.

Even so, there is a special quality about these California abstract painters that carries not only a classical context in terms of pictorial space but also a certain unpredictable eccentricity, which the Hammersley exhibition at Ameringer McEnery Yohe expresses paradoxically on both a modest and heroic level.

Not only did pictorial references — works featuring installation views of a James Coleman slide show, an X-ray previously exhibited by Isa Genzken of the German artist's own skull — to this subject abound, but the near holographic quality of Quaytman's surfaces rendered these images as if projected.

It deepens the contrast between the pictorial and dynamic qualities of the work and suggests the crackling of static: a fitting sound for these uneasy and uncertain times.

Centered on the notion of image - making as pictorial writing, or what Aupetitallot calls a «visualized narration,» the focus in «Tell Me a Story» is on a generation of artists whose work has a novelistic or story - like quality, from Karen Kilimnik and Raymond Pettibon to Xavier Veilhan and Jeff Wall.

He belongs to a generation of artists whose pictorial language brings together motifs linked to popular culture and the formal qualities of traditional Japanese art, such as flatness, pattern and lavish ornamentation.

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.

Gain the confidence to explore the use of color, mark making, surface quality and composition, emphasizing your own pictorial language.

Spanish Masters of the second half of XXth Century Centro del Carmen, Valencia The Yera Collection, initiated by Mariano Yera in 1999, covers more than half a century of Spanish pictorial history through 150 works by 63 different artists, whose quality make this an unmissable exhibition.

The mahogany frames I made for each painting also nod to a gesture of commodification, but more importantly they relate the paintings more directly to architecture and produce this quality of physical weight and pictorial phenomena.

In the large photograph unscharfer Rückenakt (Out - of - Focus Nude Back), 1994, the slightly blurred contours of the naked male body possess a painterly quality reminiscent of Gerhard Richter's works; it is only at second glance that a vulnerability evoking life at the margins of conventional society becomes evident in this image of a kneeling man with dirty feet, who is seen from above and contained in a narrow pictorial space.

Moving back and forth between abstraction and figuration, he has depicted geometrical forms including dots, lines, triangles, square and ellipses, and rhythms of fresh and vivid colors on the pictorial plane, and has created unique, illusionistic worlds of painting wherein each motif influences and merges into each other while preserving a descriptive quality.

Whereas one critic described his art as demonstrating a luminosity that evokes a «tranquil, almost spiritual» quality, another related his work to the drama of Baroque art, in the way that he was drawing with color, using strokes that «built up to a pictorial climax.»

By contrast he believed that real avant - garde art should always be disruptive and have intellectual depth, rather than merely formal (pictorial) qualities.

Clearly enamored of her subjects and committed to the development of an increasingly rich palette and voluptuous drawing style, Leveille is most interested in getting these formal qualities to serve pictorial narratives without disappearing into them.

These pictorial ideas are the basis of her artistic work, which investigates material and performative qualities of spaces in different contexts.

He saw the work of Antoni Gaudí, who employed broken crockery in his mosaics: this medium, Schnabel realised, «had a certain kind of reflective quality and density of colour and light that I felt hadn't really been used in painting, that was sort of off the ground and had a... pictorial possibility, besides the psychological one» (J. Schnabel, quoted in C. Ratcliff, «Julian Schnabel: New Again», Interview Magazine, January 2016).

One conceivable contrast in the quality of pictorial space, which interests me at the moment is the difference between stable, specific space and unstable, ambiguous space.

Her evocative use of pictorial space and her juxtapositions of thick paint and textured washes have a unique and timeless quality, which is further enhanced by a conspicuous absence of contemporary signifiers.

I need to honor and embrace them and even exaggerate the pictorial, emotional and psychological qualities of these paintings which are mine alone.

Jeffrey Weiss, in his essay in the exhibition catalogue, notes that these bands, because they border the central field only on the left and right sides, allow «for a complex play of color and value in pictorial space, since the quality of being «in front» or «behind» is less dependent on what could have been a simple device: the color border as a stark optical frame.»

For the first part of the test, the court need only be able to look at the useful article and spot some two or three - dimensional element that appears to have pictorial, graphic or sculptural qualities.