Sentences with phrase «seeming flatness»

Yet, even that artist's seeming flatness is enlivened, in «Painting with Statue of Liberty,» by «great brush control and other effects.

They're small to medium - sized, but charged with energy and humor, reflecting the artist's interest in interchangeability «between painting and sculpture, front and back, an object and its surroundings... moments of seeming flatness... negative space, the pieces» irregular shapes... to create a disoriented object.»

Not exact matches

The polls may be playing down the importance of these waverers, but the undecideds I spoke to seem to be drifting in one direction in spite of the flatness of the «No» campaign.

What Wilson has done for 20 years — works of elegant color, flatness and right angles — may seem, at first, the offspring of other art born out of geometry since the mid-20th century.

I was trying to make something new, and flatness seemed the way to go.

MWR: Opticality seems to be a bad word in post-modernist circles, because it harkens back to the Greenbergian supremacy of flatness in painting.

The image begins as a flat pattern, mimicking wallpaper, then contorts through space as it spreads over the wall, seeming to bend and move against the wall's flatness.

Proving the painting's flatness with frontal shapes or solid stripes must have seemed superfluous or monotonous to him; he wanted movement; he wanted your eyes to dance and skitter across the painting, where the ground might be mottled or solid, where the shifts of color and surface pull you closer, where the space between the planes and vibrate or smolder, where color intensities vary considerably.

This method results in fields of transparent color that seem to float in space, with the weave of the canvas establishing the flatness of the image.

DC Your paintings are resolutely flat, And yet that flatness which unifies the work seems to be at odds with the kind of fragmentary dynamic space collage allows.

Though that's likely to seem like a boring formal conceit to some, in an age where we look at flat screens all day long, it's unsurprising that artists are trying to understand the depths of flatness.

But full - on flatness could be a misreading of how we actually interact with screens: looking at emails all day might seem like a very flat life, but when you're roaming the halls of a video game, you can become fully immersed.

The central figures are energized by the flat exterior, which compresses the female characters to seem kinetic in the still format and explosive in their enveloping flatness.

What counted in a Morris Louis painting, for example, was the way the colours stained the canvas, confirming its flatness while seeming to levitate above it.

The extreme flatness of the painting created a powerful impact, and color pulses seemed to radiate from the canvas.

The use of unprimed plywood surfaces, bisected by bold swaths of color creates a dynamic interplay between depth and flatness, inviting the viewer to step into the frame only to then block the seeming point of entry.

Blocton paints grid - based abstractions, but her treatment of the surface seems expressly designed to send Clement Greenberg, the preeminent postwar critical voice and iron - fisted arbiter of formalism and flatness, howling into the night.

Mick Peter solo exhibition Director Mary Doyle gives an introduction talk about artist Mick Peter's work, who transforms imagery derived from fiction, illustration and graphic design into playful installations, resembling quick hand drawn sketches which seem to have been cut from the flatness of the paper and dragged into three - dimensional space.