"Pictorial space" refers to the illusion of depth and three-dimensionality created on a flat surface, like a painting or a photograph. It is how an artist uses techniques such as perspective, shading, and scale to make objects appear closer or farther away. It helps the viewer understand the depth and distance within the artwork.
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The new video works will play with the spatial dynamics
of pictorial space using familiar everyday materials and objects in new and unexpected ways.
How do we use the color green to create tension
in pictorial space even when we are making a literal reference to it in nature?
I paint the layers, guided by the study, and then play the opaque elements against the color «field» and
pictorial space as it has developed.
The construction of
pictorial space becomes wholly dependent on the surface relations among these planes of pure color.
Untitled adopts a very
different pictorial space from her earlier work, in what some critics have seen as a dramatic and powerful shift.
Current studies include the structure of
pictorial space throughout the history of art, particularly the dramatic emergence of geometric perspective in the 15th century.
What are the implications for an
immersive pictorial space in painting when considered outside the historical figure / ground or subject / object relationship?
Working the first day with one model and the second day with two models, participants will have an intensive opportunity to explore the structural and expressive qualities of the figure
in pictorial space.
While each of the groups in our exhibition had distinct aesthetic positions, they were united by a common interest in empirical investigations of color and new models
for pictorial space.
His spatial reality became part of my being, part of my painterly understanding of the infinite possibilities of two
dimensional pictorial space.
Waltercio Caldas, for instance, invites us to join him in his study of Velázquez's mastery of
pictorial space by presenting a depopulated version of the artist's Las meninas.
His watercolors, gouache, and oil paintings not only explore and expand the conventions of still - life painting, but also illuminate the relationship
between pictorial space and depicted objects.
There are a number of»70s painters diligently
exploring pictorial space within the well - defined limits of formalist abstraction, most notably Joan Snyder, Louise Fishman, Thomas Nozkowski, and Stephen Mueller.
A desire to dig deeper
into pictorial space, coupled with her careful study of Cézanne, especially his practice of drawing with colour, led to a new structure — the introduction of planes formed by the junction of intersecting verticals and diagonals — and of colours and contrasts.
«By the early 1980s, Brodsky's approach involved an exploration of
flattened pictorial space built up from layers of pigment that create an overall surface pattern of light and shade, the whole animated by energetic ribbons of color that dance across the canvas as a record of the artist's spontaneous gesture, attesting to his engagement with the process of painting itself,» wrote Chalif.
Like his younger counterparts, Newman seems to have been most concerned with generating
pictorial space through color alone rather than through violent or explosive brushwork.
Through the use of materials such as nylon flocking, which is a material commonly found in wallpaper, sand, resin and acrylic paint, the highly physical surfaces create a sense of
deep pictorial space.
Auping comments, «Rather than focusing on Rothenberg's famous early horse paintings as the beginning of a symbolic, figurative evolution, we are looking at the artist's work from a more holistic, formal standpoint, identifying her unusual way of
organizing pictorial space, regardless of the figurative content.»
A whole
new pictorial space is created, which the artist describes as «a tactile and at the same time completely fictional abstraction, that pushes and pulls and complicates spatial norms.»
What sets Voigt apart from the legacy left by this generation of artists is her ability to present moments during which her inner world (experiences, emotions, memories) engages with the outside world, rendered as
complex pictorial spaces that come together in a marvelous symphony of forms and ideas.
This year — following a breakout show at Moran Bondaroff in late 2014 — Thornton's deft experiments with
pictorial space filled Stuart Shave / Modern Art's London gallery in a celebrated solo show and punctuated group exhibitions at Gavin Brown's enterprise, CANADA, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Filtering the world around him into his
own pictorial space throughout an incredibly prolific career, Green's works are useful markers in illustrating the rapid shifts of the world around him as it entered a new and chaotic century.
On first glance, many of his paintings look
like pictorial space populated by shapes resembling Sol LeWitt sculptures.
Lanyon saw that Cubism's destruction of unified
pictorial space presented artists with the means to convey the sense of being in a landscape rather than merely looking at one.
Seen in this context, the graphic optical effects deployed in these early compositions reveal the genesis of Asawa's interest in repeated forms, motion, and
collapsing pictorial space that logically culminate in her wire sculptures.
Challenging and re-inventing ideas
about pictorial space, the paintings on view relate to Color Field painting and Op Art, and reflect Fangor's distinctive use of saturated color and blurred silhouettes to create striking abstract forms and mesmerizing optical illusions.
Josh Reames's gently trompe l'oeil canvases at Johannes Vogt ($ 9,500) swiped right on all of it, presenting isolated elements of gestural abstraction floating with symbolic icons — cigarettes — in a vacuous
empty pictorial space.
There were artists tinkering with abstraction when I was in my final year at Gray's, but for me it was a vehicle to challenge
traditional pictorial space so I could release the figures from this prison.
The last decade or so of Roberts's paintings reveals more intense colour, more
open pictorial space, less enclosed or silhouetted forms, and more intense handling of the materials.
The artist's new, innovative style experimented with form detaching line from colour, and redefined the ways in
which pictorial space is described.
Another technical aspect of the wall reliefs is the way that Sloan thinks through her compositions in three dimensions, drawing on her design experience in the service of
constructed pictorial spaces.
Demonstrating the confidence and control of a seasoned painter, Scott's most recent studio offering reveals a freer, more
expansive pictorial space and use of white.
In each of the Hercules pictures, the heroic figure comprises monochromatic planes that appear to be emerging out of an actively
fracturing pictorial space.
The Revolt of the Sage is an example of what the artist would call a «metaphysical interior», and yet its
crowded pictorial space overflows with...
The Revolt of the Sage is an example of what the artist would call a «metaphysical interior», and yet its crowded
pictorial space overflows with ephemeral things: frames, measuring devices and biscuits.
Yun visited New York in 1974, where he encountered the work of American postwar artists including Mark Rothko, which led him to further explore ways to
divide pictorial space.
On first glance, many of his paintings look like
pictorial space populated by shapes resembling Sol LeWitt sculptures — that is, if LeWitt had coated his objects in eraser pink, mauve, and forest green, and then sanded his crisp, geometric corners into softer, more biomorphic elbow joints.
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