Sentences with phrase «pictorial space of the canvas»

Wilmerding explores unconventional use of signatures in paintings, focusing on American artists who have placed their signature within the pictorial space of the canvas.

Playing with pictorial space of the canvas — often closing in on her subject — Otto - Knapp creates a visual language that oscillates between the abstract and the figurative, reflecting the movement she captures in paint.

Not exact matches

A showcase for her extensive arsenal of techniques and ideas, her ambitious large - scale canvases create patchworks out of different manners of mark - making and toy inventively with questions of frame dynamics and figure / ground illusions, often within a remarkably shallow pictorial space.

«Unenclosed by the usual rectangle,» writes Carter Ratcliff in his essay on Kelly's curved canvases, «Kelly's monochromes do not establish an impermeable barrier between pictorial space and the space of the gallery.

«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.

Here, Braque lightens his ground layers, brightens his palette with washes of pure color, increases the size of his canvas, and creates a complex pictorial space that shows multiple, simultaneous viewpoints.

Now, there are a lot of stretched canvases on the wall, taking up vertical pictorial space, like paintings.

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.

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.

In Vance's canvases, the background no longer surrounds the object, but breaks through it — by opening and closing these spaces in the pictorial plane the artist is able to create the illusion of a three - dimensional space.

Like trenches running through the artist's formulated landscape, the repeated series of horizontal and vertical demarcations of pictorial space convey Bradford's methodical physicality, their edges projecting outwards from the canvas ground, conferring a striking three - dimensionality to the surface.»

In his quest to transcend the idea of easel painting, the pictorial space is enlarged across expanded canvas fields, on which calligraphic signs reach maximum intensity through minimum resources, reflecting the artist's attempt to reach a square one of painting through simplicity and emptiness.

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.

In an effort to both accept and reject the formal, Elizabeth began to modify the actual shape of her canvases moving away from traditional pictorial space of a rectangle or square.

In other canvases, floating geometrical shapes dip underneath and hover over pictorial objects, making space both collapse and expand — and in the process drawing attention to the physical mechanics of sight.

Included are nine medium - sized paintings — in oil on canvas or linen, from the last five years — that attest to Ayhens's command of her pictorial means: elastic or distorted space, a distinctive palette, and a willingness to allow realism to dissolve into pure abstraction.