Not exact matches
He draws on the interaction between
illusion and picture
plane of 60s Op art,
as well
as a Warholian fascination with celebrity culture.
The words sit on the picture
plane, creating a play between the painting
as a flat surface and
as a window opening onto the
illusion of deep space.
In a corridor his long, dark threads outline rectangles, with the same
illusion of solid
planes as at Dia: Beacon.
[13] We see here a number of themes that Greenberg would later emphasize
as crucial for modernist painting — simplicity, flatness, the denial of
illusion and the importance of the picture
plane.
The shaped paintings on view in this exhibition create
illusions of space and depth, where
planes may be perceived
as simultaneously receding or projecting, allowing the viewer to journey both around and through the work.
Since 2007, Tadasky has reintroduced optical effects by infusing his atmospheric circles with brightly colored drips of paint that activate the surface and create a three - dimensional
illusion as though the circles bulge out of the picture
plane.
As a variety of technical devices were employed by early modernist painters to intimate extension beyond the space defined by the picture
plane, and by later artists to reveal and acknowledge the two - dimensional surface of
illusion, the artists in this exhibition have utilized devices which indicate a contemporary view of time and space and the work of art.