Pollock, Krasner, de Kooning, and others obliterated the very distinction between painting and drawing — or among the flatness and symmetry of canvas,
the shallow space of its painted surface, and ideal, infinite space of vision and representation.
Space figured in Cubism's reconstruction of vision, Surrealism's space of dreams, Clement Greenberg's demand for flatness,
the shallow space of paint itself, the viewer's space in Minimalism, or the pretentious gallery spaces of installation art now.
Not exact matches
Painting in what is now considered a signature style characterized by flattened planes
of color,
shallow pictorial
space, and lean, reductive but acutely descriptive lines, Katz sought to convey the appearance
of things as they are both felt and perceived in the «present tense,» the now.
The forms she
paints inhabit a
shallow, cubist - like
space, if I have the chronology correct many
of the later works are larger in size.
Eakins also kept trying to fit portraits into the
shallower space of modern landscape
painting.
Some pieces also include incised and / or
painted suggestions
of shadowy architectural
spaces (arches, hallways,
shallow niches) in which the balls are placed.
Constantly evolving her method
of application, Lonegan's current
paintings are a marked shift from her previous series, The Mark on the Wall (2012) and the White Page Paintings (2011), which leaned toward dispersing gestures in blank, shall
paintings are a marked shift from her previous series, The Mark on the Wall (2012) and the White Page
Paintings (2011), which leaned toward dispersing gestures in blank, shall
Paintings (2011), which leaned toward dispersing gestures in blank,
shallow space.
These
paintings might also encourage us to speculate how Stella's attraction to the use
of shallow pictorial
space and bright fluorescent pigments helped him to approach his goal, the absolute beauty
of the Netherlandish masterpiece.»
These linear
paintings were attempts to combine the rigour
of Braque's
shallow space with Bonnard's tapestry - like «all - overness», to use Heron's inelegant but accurate phrase.
An illusion
of deep
space and an aggressively
shallow surface can co-exist and even abut one another within the same
painting.
The work was one
of nine
shallow relief
paintings on wood that punctuated the walls
of the sizable main gallery and a smaller annex
space.
As with some
of her
paintings, McIntosh worked in a
shallow pictorial
space, decisively arranging and re-arranging forms over the colored sheets.
Crepúsculo (Twilight), 1955, with its extremely
shallow pictorial
space and totemic, geometric symbols, is typical
of his
paintings from this period.
Park's
paintings evolved from a use
of shallow cubist
space, often in black and white, to the rhythmic lines and vibrant color
of her later work.
Gueorguieva first started experimenting with cutting and collaging the surfaces
of her
paintings in order to explore the
shallow yet real
space produced by the cut and the glued edge.
Many
of the new
paintings leave large sections
of unpainted panel visible, creating a
shallower space for her whimsical figures to inhabit.
His
paintings depict
shallow pictorial
space because
of the ambiguity
of brushstroke.
The surfaces are hard, flint - like, with the array
of colored dots creating a palpable sense
of space — not the
shallow Cubist
space of Abstract Expressionism or the aerial
space that defines Color Field
painting — but a gravelly surface riddled with innumerable pits and ridges that's at once dazzling and forbidding.
Katz's monumental landscape
paintings are executed in what is now considered a signature style characterized by flattened planes
of color,
shallow pictorial
space, and lean, reductive but acutely descriptive lines.
In «Cold Mountain 6,» for example, he
painted a network
of black lines, then «corrected» it by blotting out some details with white or adding new ones in black or blue, all
of which complicated the
shallow space behind the black tangle.
These drips and strokes do seem to be, as the title promises, nothing but
painting, and so thematise and picture the medium itself, stripped
of any descriptive function, in the same
shallow space.
A small
painting carves a face out
of an oval Tiepolo sky with the faintest suggestion
of a profile, while a large
painting of crisp, mirrored heads produces a
shallow space like a frieze.
A seemingly disorderly pile
of box - like coloured shapes, flatly rendered in a
shallow pictorial
space, are featured against a
painted grey ground.
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.
Over the next few years he strove to achieve the compositional order, nonimitative colour, and
shallow picture
space characteristic
of the new European
painting.
And whilst I applaud the sense
of her wanting to make her
painting more abstract, and lose the semi-figuration that is part
of the Hofmann / de Kooning «package» she starts from, it comes back to the ever - present dilemma in abstract
painting: deep and dramatic
space is (often) ambiguously figurative;
shallow space and surface is (often) flat and disappointing.