The paintings, some as large as eight by 10 feet, depict figures and objects life size at
the picture plane so one feels they can be entered and engaged directly.
Never laboured, objects and figures are spread across
the picture plane so that they are imbued with an almost weightless quality.
Not exact matches
Im sitting on my
plane waiting for the lightning in Long Island to stop striking near JFK
so that we can take off and desperately wishing that I could upload
pictures from an iPhone or an iPad to my blog, which alas I can't do.
What's up everyone find me on FB ABIGAIL BETH GRAHAM?!? I'm Abby!i just had my son jace on july 3erdt it was un
planed and most defiantly not the way i wanted to get pragnet
so in that case the dad is not going to be in the
picture at the moment.
As restraint yields immense emotion in the story,
so too does simplicity and silence accrue a devastating power on the aural and visual
planes (the latter courtesy Haneke's inspired and exceedingly proficient D.P., Darius Khondji, who's also been responsible for the look of such diverse other
pictures as Panic Room, several The Immigrants, and Haneke's own U.S. remake of Funny Games).
So, go grab a cup of whatever it is you drink, and then come back and peruse the pretty
pictures of
planes and jets in the gallery below.
We never sit next to each other on the
plane,
so I'll be behind him, or across the aisle, and when I see him over there, taking
pictures secretly, I know exactly what he's doing.
But a
picture of people in the subway from The New York Times lacked the necessary depth to show subjects in the fore and back of the frame,
so all the figures appeared to be on the same
plane.
My friend and I left the lounge a bit early
so we could get better
pictures of the
plane,
so we didn't hear any boarding announcement that might have been made in the lounge.
PT: Your smaller gouache works don't form space
so much as revel around the
picture plane, engaging in lyrical, taxonomic pleasure.
I mean as much as it creates greater ambiguity, it also reveals both a sense of history of the layering of the paint while, at the same time, anchoring the whole image
so that it doesn't float in the
picture plane.
He departs from the straight - ahead views for that butterfly in profile,
so that the black and yellow of its wings can hold the
picture plane as well.
Having energized and freed the wall - hung painting
so that it dispatched electric fans and stuffed birds into the gallery's airspace, Rauschenberg now flipped the
picture plane to become a horizontal, flatbed platform for sculptural invention and gleaning.
By brilliantly asserting the action of his paintings out in front of the
picture plane (the final frontier after painting had been
so thoroughly explored in terms of depth and then flatness), Resnick pioneered and then painted himself out of the
picture.
Step into the room, estimate the space that the painting takes up in the room and sit in front of it,
so it is only you and the
picture plane.
The spare, realistic rendering employs a limited palate of flesh tones, browns and khakis and a flattened
picture plane to
so clearly evoke this woman's rugged and hardworking existence.
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.
He showed his dissatisfaction with the impenetrability of the
picture plane — impenetrable in
so far as he could not pierce it by perspective or modeling — by worrying the surfaces of his
pictures, by working in a variety of materials and mixing his m and by mediums, and by returning incessantly to watercolor, where he could exploit the curl of the moisture - laden paper for the unevenness he wanted.
In doing
so, he negates both the original intent and artificial creation of desire at the core of most constructed
picture planes we encounter on a daily basis.
Hinman, for one, is alive and well, and
so is abstract painting like his that takes major liberties with the
picture plane — or, for that matter, the medium.
What most struck me about paintings such as Untitled (Red Butterfly)(2002) and others was how Grotjahn had commandeered Newman's totemic and cabbalistic «zips» - those declarative vertical stripes judiciously deployed to rend and reconcile oppositional forces on the
picture plane Old Testament - style - and
so handily retro - fitted them with the lollipop palette of Kenneth Noland, the geometrically compartmentalized painterliness of Alfred Jensen and the segmented cartwheeling compositions of early 1960s Frank Stella.
Indeed, the points of non-abutment and the chinks in the mortar,
so to speak, at the critical places in the paintings where light seeps through from a
plane behind the
picture plane.
Unlike the increasingly popular,
so - called transitive painting, which points to networks of production or distribution outside the
picture plane, the artists in Vivid are committed to life within the stretcher.»
Though the film is purposefully
so overexposed that the
picture plane becomes void of depth, Jonas nonetheless makes space legible through sound — opening and closing the windows in her loft, walking around the room whistling a tune, the sound of dogs barking in the street, whispering or recreating sounds of a foghorn by blowing through the cones behind the camera.
I'm always trying to activate the space between the object that's really about this flat surface on the wall and the space between it and the viewer,
so that the viewer is engaged perceptually through the movement of the strokes, the opticality, and in following my body's movement across the
picture plane like a kind of mimesis.
So although Riley was arguably 12 - 13 years behind Vasarely, and 40 years behind the Dutch graphic Op artist M.C. Escher (1898 - 1972), she appeared to be the new pioneer of an entirely new method of pictorial representation, which revolutionized the power of the
picture plane.
The skipping, jewel - like glances of vivid translucent color
so musically applied to the
picture plane meanwhile provide a sense of hopeful providence and even joy, but it remains to that living mutable white ground that is
so utterly freeing inside Manalo's unarticulated imagery to provide us with an ultimate prospective.
And then I saw your graphic work and I didn't need to ask at all because all of the graphic work was, still is,
so exciting, full of energy where you seemed to understand the
picture plane and what you could do with it.
In fact the opportunity for play extends beyond the
picture plane as the artist goes
so far as to paint tacks along the stretcher side and even the stretcher bars on the verso of the works further pushing the boundaries of painting and sculpture.
So, I might imagine that the figure is being poured into her container, that the ground surrounding her is some denser stuff, holding her in place (like a mold), or that the painting itself is a slice of air and everything in it is just slightly shifting, like condensation, or everything is skin, pushing against the membrane of the
picture plane.
What I am after is a dynamic spatial relationship between figure and ground, or sometimes to charge the
picture plane with impacted energy
so as to make it an undeniable, absolutely compelling image.