Sentences with phrase «sensuous painterly surfaces»

Postmodernism deprived painting of originality and first - hand experience at the same time that Greenberg's disembodied abstraction, addressed to eyesight alone, collided with the desire on the part of some artists to retain the wholeness of the aesthetic experience made available by the old masters in their fusion of the haptic quality of sensuous painterly surfaces with the optical melding of colour and light.

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Instead, his art is at once graphic and painterly, decorative yet deep, sensuous and — in the vast expanses of untouched surface — austere.