Sentences with phrase «rectangular picture plane»
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More ubiquitous are small rectangular blocks of solid color, often containing modestly sized but altogether exquisite gestural marks, that seem both to sit on the picture plane and cut an aperture into it.
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As Tiffany Bell notes, the square or rectangular configuration of the lights also allowed Flavin to refer to the picture plane of painting and the idea of perspective, and thus to inscribe his work within long - established art - historical categories.
Two gloved hands hold a rectangular panel, a double of the picture plane: the painting becomes the artist's stand - in (representation as lacuna).
He shows his range in these later works gleefully inventing and exploiting new spaces in the picture plane: 1951's Every Atom Glows: Electrons in Luminous Vibration is a delicate black - and - white oil painting, while his Alabama II, 1969, is a strong protest work — a rectangular field of red in which a triangular wedge evoking bodies marching or a megaphone's amplified language emerges in glossier red on the painting's surface.