Sentences with phrase «rejecting illusionistic space»

As New York painters were progressively rejecting illusionistic space and moving toward a more literal space and bigger formats — which would logically lead a few years later to Donald Judd's rejection of painting in favor of sculptural space — the concept of le tableau continued to provide a conceptual framework to painters within the French idiom that would allow painting to evolve without losing the basic elements of its identity.