Sentences with phrase «shallow picture plane»

By placing these clumps of bodies touching other bodies and fabric in such a shallow picture plane, Tharp begins to engage the viewer's sense of touch.

Isberg prefers a very shallow picture plane and sometimes it simply does not exist in these paintings.

His paintings, with their saturated colors, repeating patterns and shallow picture planes, offer a unique and timeless vision of the American South.

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I like the picture because it was difficult to take — the wasp was moving very fast and the focal plane was very shallow — and because it captures three trophic levels in one.»

Malone writes: «Each image is built of a dominant color, yet within each color there are subtle variations that maintain a shallow atmospheric depth — not enough to sink the color into a distracting illusion, but more than enough to activate its magically ambiguous relationship to the picture plane.

Their shallow depth thrusts the picture plane against one's face, like Johns's targets and Stella's fearful symmetry.

His ectoplasmic figures strain like savage forces of nature against shallow fields of intense color and strict armatures that bind them to the picture plane.

The Grisaille method of underpainting is an excellent example of this historic push and pull movement of paint through space as in this technique, the white highlights of a painting are built up in layers to a kind of shallow, bas - relief topography across the picture plane.

Each image is built of a dominant color, yet within each color there are subtle variations that maintain a shallow atmospheric depth — not enough to sink the color into a distracting illusion, but more than enough to activate its magically ambiguous relationship to the picture plane.