Spatial ambiguity refers to a situation where there is confusion or uncertainty about the location or arrangement of something in space. It means that it is not clear or can be interpreted in different ways due to its position or surroundings.
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In Color Pieces, pioneering video artist Nan Hoover created
spatial ambiguities through a muted colour spectrum and subtle play of shadows and lights that are as much a test or rehearsal as a final piece of work.
In Color Pieces, video artist Nan Hoover has
created spatial ambiguities through a muted colour spectrum and subtle play of shadows and lights that are as much a test or rehearsal as a final piece of work.
Coloured shapes (geometric with Sutton and biomorphic with Arp) in wood, appear to have organised themselves into a coherent arrangement, with
subtle spatial ambiguities (e.g. the bright blue square in Sutton's Tight Tumble Tern recedes slightly in relation to the grey, yet is clearly in front of the grey physically) and referential associations.
As they move through the gallery, visitors will experience this
new spatial ambiguity and find themselves manipulating or being manipulated by the multitude of bubbles, spheres, and malleable environments.
In this early stage, Pape explored the degree to which she could
introduce spatial ambiguity into the notion of painting by making elements of the work three - dimensional and experimenting with either hanging the work flat on the wall or setting it off against it in such a way that it appeared as a hybrid between painting and sculpture.
Bright color juxtapositions on interlocking squares, rectangles and triangles create an effect of shifting light and shadow, in turn
producing spatial ambiguity.
Thomas has established an organic yet sophisticated system of surface dynamics combined with highly
nuanced spatial ambiguities and lush color harmonies within his work that evoke a sense of transient, almost atmospheric, compositional structure.
Panes of glass and then mirrors were substituted for parts of the painted design and this exploration of
spatial ambiguity eventually evolved into sculptural constructions made of wood and glass.
Although it is a very long time since I read Harold Osborne, I feel sure that one of his arguments was that quality in painting is largely to do with
exploiting spatial ambiguity.
Across this simple, geometric digital print, Tess Jaray repeats an arrow - like motif to disorient the viewer and
suggest spatial ambiguities.
Many years later Mandel acknowledged the surrealist elements of
spatial ambiguity and discord in her photographs that expressed the devastation she still felt after the war and the Holocaust.
In 1931, he began to use a camera and to make photographs that reveal the influence of both Cubism and Surrealism — bold, flat planes, collage - like compositions, and
spatial ambiguity — as well express an affinity for society's outcasts and the back alleys where they lived and worked.
Translated from the ancient Greek, kaleidoscope means «observe the beautiful form» and the definition fits with the show, which is an examination of pattern, color and
spatial ambiguity.
Note: The auction record for a painting is nearly 1 800 000 USD (in 2011) The auction record for a lithograph is nearly 8 000 USD (in 2009) By the late 1950s Vieira da Silva was internationally known for her dense and complex compositions, influenced by the art of Paul Cézanne and the fragmented forms,
spatial ambiguities, and restricted palette of cubism and abstract art.
These small panels, many of which were never shown in the artist's lifetime and continue to be under - exhibited, are astonishing in their jewel - like hues, painterly execution, and
spatial ambiguity.
By the late 1950s she was internationally known for her dense and complex compositions, influenced by the art of Paul Cézanne and the fragmented forms,
spatial ambiguities, and restricted palette of cubism and abstract art.
Glass and then mirrors were substituted for parts of these when he began to explore
the spatial ambiguity that would eventually lead to the glass cube and standing glass panel sculptures, which were to establish his national and international reputation.
[3] By the late 1950s she was internationally known for her dense and complex compositions, influenced by the art of Paul Cézanne and the fragmented forms,
spatial ambiguities, and restricted palette of cubism and abstract art.
Caught in
this spatial ambiguity, his starkly silent, yet intensely present characters stare longingly — a mute communication from which a distinct visual and psychological intimacy emerges.
It looks conceptual, even though the idea is more embedded as a form of
spatial ambiguity than in what it is as a concept from, shall we say, Mesopotamia or ancient Hittite culture.
this spatial ambiguity of japanese gardens and its illusionary affects are exaggerated by coffin's projection.
It's interesting to observe how this range of abstractionist conventions and styles is adapted to
the spatial ambiguities of her window and doorway subjects.