Sentences with phrase «pictorial surfaces so»

In contrast to the traditional verticality of the renaissance picture plane, which is dependent on head - to - toe correspondence with the viewer, with his combines Rauschenberg introduced the «flat - bed» plane and in doing so completely reoriented the pictorial surface so that it was no longer representative of a world space, but an analogue of operational processes.

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What is at stake in this work is not so much representing a figure and giving it flesh, but the staging of an image's life — as if the image was taking revenge upon the portrait and pushing its way to the surface of the canvas, with the help of curtains and shadows, pictorial marks and brushwork.

Strong shadows and the representation of a particular time and place suggest the distinctly American scene so memorialized by Hopper, while attention to flattened surface planes and a rectilinear pictorial structure reveals Diebenkorn's underlying tendency toward abstraction.