The author focuses on American artists who have not simply signed their works on a corner of the canvas but have intentionally placed their signatures within the
pictorial space of the painting.
There is a well - worn narrative of twentieth century painting that goes like this: From Cezanne to Picasso to Pollock, the
illusionistic space of painting flattened more and more until the picture plane and the surface created by the paint itself became the primary subject matter, eliminating images altogether in favor of abstraction.
The artist skillfully extends the pictorial
space of the painting beyond the confines of a «canvas,» beyond the gallery wall and out into the space of the viewer in an effort to capture the feeling of being surrounded.
Filling the compressed
spaces of his paintings with figures, plants, and household objects, Wood reimagines the world as a variegated collage of overlapping patterns, flatly rendered.
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.
Upon close inspection one can observe that a number of fragments from the etchings and litho prints have migrated to the
flatter space of the paintings.
Through her delicate treatment of every scene, Dumas destabilizes preconceived notions about what, in fact, is being pictured — exploring the tension between the photographic documentation of reality and the constructed
imaginary space of painting.
The rigorous geometry of these grids, which seem to float above the surface of the canvas like a membrane, demarcates the limit between the
inner space of the painting and its surroundings, the place of the spectator.
The large - scale works included in Against the Wall are primarily based on media imagery documenting Israel and Palestine, exploring the tension between the photographic documentation of reality and the
constructed space of painting.
If film has the capacity to capture its subject in an instant and painting, by its nature, requires time for its production, the
decelerated space of painting becomes an expanded arena for enquiry.
This gives each painting two sources of space: the illusionistic
space of the painted image and the space behind the painting that can be seen through the mesh.
An African American who grew up in south - central Los Angeles, the artist's richly textured collages merge his fascination of the
personal space of painting with the sprawling, continually changing street facades of the city and the particular political and racial tensions that still exist there.
The non-linear appreciation of time afforded to us through the
liminal space of painting allows Nolan to reinterpret historical facts, half - truths and lies, presenting them to the viewer simultaneously.
Large in concept and scale, each painting offers lavish twists and turns of narrative that draw us into the
visual space of the painting, much as a movie pulls us into the imagined world of the filmmaker.
He develops his theory of Spatialism, which promotes the abolition of the
illusory space of painting and its replacement by real...
The grey, blue, green, yellow, violet, black, red, orange, and pink have different values of saturation, brightness and purity, and are deployed alongside each other in ways that disrupt the
planar space of these paintings.
The effect is powerful; it heightens the evocation of lived experience (moving bodies and shifting angles being the hallmarks of embodied perception) and draws us into the
mysterious space of the paintings.
Her techniques have included the use of electric light, ceramic tiles, and glass microspheres, with which she creates simple geometric configurations that give structure to the luminescent
internal space of her paintings.
I got a similar experience with Anne's recent paintings where the
whole space of the painting seemed to recede almost infinitely, without losing contact with the surface.
Painted gestures conjure fragments of light streaming through trees, reflections in water, or a flickering mirage, inviting viewers to enter into the
illusionistic space of the painting.
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.
The «paintings» of Kimo Minton and Deedra Ludwig explore texture, line, medium, modernism and spirituality... and originate everywhere outside of the
flat space of painting.
The large - scale works included in Against the Wall are primarily based on media imagery and newspaper clippings documenting the conflict between Israel and Palestine, exploring the tension between the photographic documentation of reality and the constructed,
imaginary space of painting.
He is increasingly preoccupied with the
inner space of painting, his exploration of which creates a dynamic tension with his passion for outer space.
Again, a single figure occupies
the space of the painting.
«I wanted people to identify the trope of Africa with this structure and color and see the patterns of one world and another world pushing into
the space of the painting,» Odita says.
He used to talk about dark - light design and moving through
the space of the painting.
Yellow or pink backgrounds relate to expressionism, but they also transfer human substance to
the space of a painting, and it never, ever left.
Machina is a 3D animation portraying the compressed time and
space of a painting.
He jokes that
the space of each painting is reminiscent of a very early video game, from a generation of game play where Zelda and the first Final Fantasy were deemed seminal.
ABF: How do you reconcile the studio, home, and exhibition environments in your painting's space and / or
the space of painting more generally?
He is forward in
the space of the painting and backlit.
Ursula von Rydingsvard's sculptures travel to Yorkshire, Matthew Ritchie expands
the space of painting and drawing, Shahzia Sikander tackles maritime trade and imperial control, and more in this week's roundup.
In both Nijinsky (1950) and Ninth Street (1951), Kline opens up
the space of the paintings by allowing his line a flexibility that his later work is without.
The aim of Ritchie's overall project is to expand
the space of painting and drawing into six collaborative disciplines: architecture, city planning, video, performance, theater, and music — all while still retaining properties unique to painting and drawing.
Ettinger will give a lecture as well as a master class related to the topics of: «Subreal Borderlinking in
the Space of Painting»