Sentences with phrase «push painterly concerns»

In each work, the artist employs formal dualities from the art historical canon — namely, narration versus abstraction, color versus line, flat versus recessive space, and painting versus drawing — not as a means to a conceptual end, but rather as a method to push these painterly concerns to their extremes.

Sillman's work employs formal dualities, such as color versus line or flat versus recessive space, as a way to push painterly concerns to their extremes.