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.
Opening
the pictorial space as an inclusive realm, Anderson invites the viewer to bring their own cultural experiences and memories to the canvas, thus creating a visual tension where viewer and artist are connected in their contextualisation of the imagery presented to us.
The digitally simulated monochromatic abstraction and hyper - reflective liquid forms occupy the virtual
pictorial space as a triptych, emerging and concealing the shifting human figures within.
While living and working for decades in various cultural contexts s such as Guyana, Canada, and the United States, Lyght creates a wide range of works that analyze the structural properties of painting and reanimate
pictorial space as an open system.
So what if I must set aside Mark Rothko's love of Giotto and his belief in
pictorial space as akin to Renaissance architecture?
Not exact matches
Indeed,
as early
as Origen in the third century it was being pointed out that we must not think of the Ascension
as a movement in
space; and in fact Luke seems to have translated into mythical form, i.e. a
pictorial narrative, the universal belief of the early Church that Jesus has ascended to the throne of God, not in a physical manner but in the sense that he has been exalted to Lordship over all the world.
While each adjustment is undertaken to orchestrate and tighten the relation of each
pictorial unit to every other
pictorial unit, to secure formally the integrity of each painting
as a whole, the overall effect of the process is also to enliven the
space, to acknowledge its flatness while simultaneously allowing it visually to twist and warp and bend, to project and recede, to be positive and negative — and thus to explore and personalize what's become natural to
pictorial space since Cezanne and Cubism radicalized it more than a century ago.
Painting in what is now considered a signature style characterized by flattened planes of color, shallow
pictorial space, and lean, reductive but acutely descriptive lines, Katz sought to convey the appearance of things
as they are both felt and perceived in the «present tense,» the now.
Lisa Sigal brings architecture and painting into dialogue by creating a series of physically inaccessible rooms that can only be viewed
as pictorial spaces.
«Among the wildly disparate features of today's art - world landscape, two modes of
pictorial thought with venerable lineages have recently re-emerged: materials - oriented abstract painting, and a linear approach to the investigation of the third dimension that may conveniently be referred to
as «drawing in
space.»
His kaleidoscopic compositions of overlapping grids and patterns create complex
pictorial spaces, and his use of transparent pigments allows the viewer to see,
as the artist has said, «all the events that went into the making of the painting.»
The encounter between geographies, disciplines and histories at the core of Meppayil's work prompts what Benjamin H.D. Buchloh identifies
as «a latent desire to leave behind the parameters of
pictorial space and its supporting surfaces, reaching for an ultimate sublation of the painterly rectangle in a numinous architectural
space.»
At the same time, her almost decorative technique of making human and animal figures components of formal composition, through the arrangement, or insertion, of color fields within the
pictorial space, credits Kudo
as an aspiring successor of the modernist formal painting championed by Matisse»
As the artist has stated, «I began, and still do begin, with a love for color and unrelenting interest in the intersection of a
pictorial way of looking, (or thinking), with the physical matter of the body and the materiality of things in
space.»
The artist's flawlessly rendered surfaces; use of stark lighting and awkward compression of
pictorial space heightens the detachment of his subjects from lived experience and,
as some writers have acknowledged, offers a reading of his work
as a form of abstraction.
In 1974, in reference to a New York gallery show by Judy Rifka, Jeremy Gilbert - Rolfe wrote that the artist addressed «the question most crucial to painting in general at the present time: the question
as to how far the — currently compromised — abstract «depth» of
pictorial space can be newly considered — retrieved — through attention to the material basis of the conventions on which that experience of «depth» relies.»
Sculptural
as well
as pictorial, each diptych is mounted to a support that projects the picture plane forward off the wall towards the viewer, hovering in
space.
Combining three - dimensional elements within a two - dimensional
pictorial space to create visually and conceptually loaded images, Muniz creates work that fosters a shift in visual perception
as well
as cultural preconceptions.
Working in both real and
pictorial space simultaneously, the artist emphasizes the instability of what we know
as reality and the potentiality in what lies beyond the limits of conditioned sight and thought.
For the catalog, Jeffrey Weiss describes the addition in formal terms,
as «a complex play of color and value in
pictorial space.»
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.
John Weightman
as Francis Bacon: Full Face and in Profile, Oxford 1983, pl.101 (col.) H. Platschek, «Francis Bacon: Alle Kunst ist Instinkt», Art: Das Kunstmagazin, no. 10, Oct. 1984, p. 34 (col.) Wieland Schmied, Francis Bacon: Vier Studien zu einem Porträt, Berlin 1985, p. 127, pl.170 Friedhelm Mennekes, «Francis Bacon: Distanzierung vom Augenschein - Transformation des Mythischen», Kunst und Kirche, no. 1, 1986, p. 36 Michel Leiris, Francis Bacon, London 1988, pl.94 (col.) Wieland Schmied, Francis Bacon: Commitment and Conflict, Munich and New York 1996, [p. 131], pl.38 (col.) Into a typically restricted
pictorial space Bacon brought together the four protagonists listed in the painting's title: Three Figures and Portrait.
In my view this response is prompted by the way in which you present and transform the body
as such:
as an erotic, a geometrical, an architectural entity in a
pictorial space.
«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.
In these paintings, images are often cropped and lack a specific point of spatial reference, such
as a horizon line, thus inviting a contemplative experience and generating the feeling of immersion in Katz's open - ended
pictorial space.
«Current Locations» also speaks to these artists» affinity with creating a sense of place (or places): painter Barbara Marks creates voluminous
pictorial & interior
spaces with her deeply saturated color palette; Elise Church paints intimate environments based on her travels in
space in time; Colombian artist, Esperanza Cortés incorporates natural resources and folklore motifs from her homeland
as a means of exploring personal identity; Kyle Vu - Dunn sculpts warped «natural» environments to harbor the self; and Viviane Rombaldi Seppey blends world maps (with emphasis on places she's lived) with morbid imagery from traditional medical textbooks.
Joyce Yu - Jean Lee:
As a cross-cultural Chinese American, I think culturally rooted notions of
pictorial space can reveal deeper philosophies, world views, or biases of specific cultures.
Stäglich's abstract works are based on her examination of colour painting
as well
as her interest in the expansion of the
pictorial space into the real
space.
(«Hopper bets everything on composition, which, in his work, is almost
as tautly considered
as in a Mondrian,» Schjeldahl wrote in his 2007 review, in which he also advised viewers to sketch Hopper's paintings in order to better grasp them: «Just get the main shapes, including those of empty
space, and how they nest together in the
pictorial rectangle.»)
Much like her paintings in the past two iterations of NDA, the artist's new series of geometric abstraction becomes even more architectural
as she continues her study of visually defining «place», giving the viewer a sense of being able to walk into and inhabit the
pictorial «
space».
As such, Kline's white carries nominal pictorial heft; it certainly doesn't carry as color or spac
As such, Kline's white carries nominal
pictorial heft; it certainly doesn't carry
as color or spac
as color or
space.
Expressive, gestural fields of colors, juxtaposed within the
pictorial space are signature Stamos compositions that seem to speak the same language
as another famous abstractionist of the time, Clyfford Still, albeit in a calmer tone.
Such sequences made it possible to elaborate on ideas such
as the division of the
pictorial space, e.g. the rectangle of the sheet of paper.
Filtered through his photographs, Mesoamerican architecture showed Albers the accordion - like nature of
pictorial space: it could be rendered
as volumetric, flat and something in between at the same time.
As with some of her paintings, McIntosh worked in a shallow
pictorial space, decisively arranging and re-arranging forms over the colored sheets.
«I am trying to create something that embodies or dramatizes the kind of psychic
space that exaggerates certain ideas and experiences,» Casebere says, describing his
pictorial method, a strategy in which the models exemplify what might be characterized
as the architectural unconscious of a given spatial system.
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.
As viewers approach these mind - bending pieces of art from a distance, Provosty tricks them into discovering that pictorial space in the work is not as flat as it appeared from a distance, despite the apparent reductivism of her monochromatic palett
As viewers approach these mind - bending pieces of art from a distance, Provosty tricks them into discovering that
pictorial space in the work is not
as flat as it appeared from a distance, despite the apparent reductivism of her monochromatic palett
as flat
as it appeared from a distance, despite the apparent reductivism of her monochromatic palett
as it appeared from a distance, despite the apparent reductivism of her monochromatic palette.
In addition to the abstract paintings, another prominent series of works features Styrofoam canvases, imprinted with footprints
as if upon snow, transforming
pictorial space into traversable ground.
As early as the 1980s, after his wacky «Exotic Bird» series, 1976 — 80, Stella started using digital rendering technology to achieve polarization in pictorial spac
As early
as the 1980s, after his wacky «Exotic Bird» series, 1976 — 80, Stella started using digital rendering technology to achieve polarization in pictorial spac
as the 1980s, after his wacky «Exotic Bird» series, 1976 — 80, Stella started using digital rendering technology to achieve polarization in
pictorial space.
In some ways, Kasseböhmer's entire oeuvre can be understood
as an attempt to save the
pictorial space of painting and bring it intact — with all its rich knowledge base, technical interplays and entire depth of meaning — into the present day.
As such, they possess a haunted air, as if existing solely to inhabit the border that separates real and pictorial space.&raqu
As such, they possess a haunted air,
as if existing solely to inhabit the border that separates real and pictorial space.&raqu
as if existing solely to inhabit the border that separates real and
pictorial space.»
In the works of Ilene Segalove, the
space is defiantly personal: the figure of the artist herself is portrayed
as a comic feminist protagonist who seems perpetually unable to assimilate to various
pictorial or archival standards.
As I work, I follow detours and choose contingencies within a syntax of stripes, planes, paint drips, abrasions, and stains, and trompe l'oeil supports that act like small prosthetics within the
pictorial space.
By this time, Vigas had created such signature early pictures
as Composición IV (Composition IV, oil on cardboard, 1944), with its melding of abstract forms, layered Cubist
pictorial space and a palette recalling that of Old Master canvases.
These observations became translated through the construction of three - dimensional spatial paintings
as pictorial compositions that reconfigure the
space and its architecture, using specific physical things.
From a reservoir of largely vintage ephemera, Letscher creates a dense
pictorial space in which words, images, colors and shapes tell a story about the world we imagined for ourselves
as children and the often - painful real world we experience
as adults.
In 1965,
as he moved more towards abstraction, he wrote:» All that interests me,» Richter is quoted in the catalogue
as stating, «is the gray areas, the passages and tonal sequences, the
pictorial spaces, overlaps and interlockings.
Paul Corio posts the second part of painter George Hofmann's theory of a «new kind of
pictorial space beginning to crystallize in painting which he refers to as «Fractured Space.»&r
space beginning to crystallize in painting which he refers to
as «Fractured
Space.»&r
Space.»»
The strangest feeling,
as I remember it, was to locate the white shapes locked safely into the colour grid, but to see them also
as free and ready to enter our
space, our world... The conundrum of these masterpieces is that they are decorative without being designs,
pictorial without being paintings, heart - stopping in their directness, their economy, their inventiveness.»