Sentences with phrase «spatial illusion»

We will learn abstract principles that organize composition, depict spatial illusion and describe form while developing a shared language for critiques.

Among the works, # 66 (1975) is most subject to the gravitationally induced material melt, creating a complex spatial illusion of ground and mark overlapping, merging and doubling — their roles no longer particularly distinct.

«The [Butterfly] paintings themselves are hard - edged spatial illusions in rich gradations of colour that appear to expand and contract... Grotjahn actually riffs from the whole range of abstraction: Malevich, Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt, Frank Stella, Brice Marden et al... Grotjahn is actively encoding references including pop psychedelic associations.»

Working with spatial illusions and color relationships and innovatively spraying translucent oil paint, Ferris develops almost labyrinthine works.

In these works, Dubuffet carefully uses a range of scales to create spatial illusion.

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It is primarily the ease with which Poons negotiates between spatial illusion and surface tension that links him to younger painters.

Albers's Interlinear N 32 bl (1962) exemplifies his use of mechanical means to create a complex spatial illusion by engraving an impersonal, functional line within a field of hand - rolled jet black ink.

Artists throughout the ages have been intrigued by perceptual illusions, devising visual tricks to manipulate the perception of space, incorporating spatial illusion as an aspect of their art.

Ellen Priestʼs jazz - based abstractions balance directly on the border between painting and sculpture — vibrantly colored spatial illusions when reading from a distance and 3 - D relief constructions of layered, collaged paper when seen up close.

Following in the tradition of Jackson Pollock, whose drip paintings finally broke the bond between painter and canvas, and Frank Stella's Black Paintings which discarded the need for spatial illusion, Judd makes the next, unassailable step of taking art into a new dimension — a dimension in which it could finally achieve the full potential of creativity.

«He was the only one who employed hard - edge composition to yield spatial illusion,» says gallery owner Brian Gross of Valledor, who's considered a hard - edge painting pioneer.

The works make spatial illusion feel like a living, shifting thing, sometimes reptilian but also spongy, like layered clouds.

Solving his first problem — banishing spatial illusion from painting — has resulted in a career spent wandering in what might be called the wilderness of real space.

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«So Pasmore, in spite of his abortive pursuit of pure abstraction, joined the ranks of the British semi abstract painters, Lanyon, Hilton, Scott, Hodgkin, and others, who can not commit to a full hearted abstraction, but in their irresolution on the question offer succour to all those who hold on to that naturalistic spatial illusion, or hints of such, that keeps their work linked to the old English traditions of poeticised landscape reference»

Another more pictorially oriented phase followed, culminating in the late 19th century work of artists like Aubrey Beardsley (1872 - 98) who applied the direct black - white contrast to planes, while in the 20th century the French masters Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954) and Picasso reduced the object to a mere line without any depth or other spatial illusion.

The sculptural connection comes through when Ms. Truitt engineers subtle spatial illusions.

The focus in these works is on the act of taking the flat, rectangular depictions of landmass and territory (which maps are intended to be), and reconfiguring them into mineral - like geometric constructions in which folds, facets and overlays construct spatial illusions along with a sense of depth and interiority within the flatness of the map.

Through this Ocean Park series, which numbers more than 100 paintings, Diebenkorn established a dialogue between airy spatial illusion and flat surface, between spontaneity and control, between inside and outside, between rational order and evocative mood in order to represent abstractly what he called the «tension beneath the calm.»

«Grotjahn's abstractions are, in relation to traditional pictorial modes, a matter of having your cake and eating it too, of experiencing vertiginous spatial illusions only to be brought back to the level ground of modernist flatness - only then to have the picture plane once again yield to the probing eye,» curator Robert Storr wrote in LA Push - Pull / Po - Mo - Stop - Go.

«Opening the Box: Spatial Illusions inside the Picture» Sunday 1 - 5 pm, October 6, 13, 20, 27 Instructor: Juliana Netschert $ 240 4 sessions at The National Gallery of Art / both wings, each session focuses on either a specific artist or period in western painting.

Facets such as weight, varying grades of color, glossy surfaces, and spatial illusion combine to create the paradox of movement interspersed with negative and positive space.

Grotjahn has become widely recognized for his «butterfly» paintings, which experiment with one - point perspective, a technique developed in the Renaissance to create an illusion of depth, but which Grotjahn sets slightly askew to create paintings that combine elements of geometric abstraction and shifting spatial illusion.

Though Novros is not a sculptor, but a colorist concerned with the object nature and spatial illusion of painting, he looks beyond the single rectangular form.

By 1968 he was teaching at the University of Massachusetts and had become increasingly interested in making paintings which manifested an energetic presence and spatial illusion in front of the picture plane.

This month discover how Frank Stella experiments with color, shape, and size to create artworks that play with spatial illusion.

Polke's painted «lens» generates a variety of distortions, mutations and spatial illusions when seen from different viewpoints.

He wished to explore, as the French artist had done earlier, the evocative possibilities to be found in the combination of indoor and outdoor space, in the tension between spatial illusion and surface flatness, and in the relation of figures to abstract form.

Some were trying out unusual materials and techniques — cotton balls, fake jewels, pigmented wax, spray guns, squeegees — either to make painting more perversely objectlike or to reopen the spatial illusions shut down by the Judd - Stella - Greenberg juggernaut.

Whatever the spatial illusion they engender, his works have the classical, painterly flatness achieved by exact attention to edges and colour, to be seen for example in «Seated Nude» (1919).

They are open and fluid, at once adhering to spatial illusion and falling back to material presence.

More than many of White's contemporaries, the artist enjoys the spatial illusion of paint, creating areas of color that read completely flat while other passages extrude and recede, impressions often complicated by the introduction of objects and her recent experiments with text.

It shares something with Marden's curves, but it avoids Marden's density and spatial illusion.

Kline's work never lost its intensity, even when color became the key factor of his compositions and his bold lines grew more ragged, creating effects almost of chiaroscuro and spatial illusion.

The painterly effects that interest him suggest energy that flows, the expansion and compression of form, the diversion of a line, the spatial illusions of colour.

Some of the works relate through their textual sources, optical and spatial illusion, recursive imagery, and graphic experimentation.

You see a booth and through it another and through it another, each booth showing works that have their own, often contrasting, spatial illusions.

Both works demonstrate Moon's practice of making crossing lines suggest surface and spatial illusion, despite the flatness of the colour.

While both T12239 and T12243 demonstrate the artist's practice of using crossing lines to suggest surface and spatial illusion, the spatial complexity of T12239 rests on the manner in which the grid has been fragmented into an array of square details that abut one another.

In the process, he realizes his visual manipulations in a variety of ways: he creates computer images, photographs or silkscreens through to whole room - filling installations which represent still lifes, spatial illusions and visions of the future.

Austrian artist Peter Kogler is interested in spatial illusion, projections, brains, ants and creating projections of graphic environments that give the illusion of changing a fixed environment to generate an emotional response from the viewer.

Moreover, the spatial illusion in these seven paintings was a deliberate reaction to the strict flatness of so much current work.

Curry's Cosmic Bricoleur delivers what the title proposes, a chevron - shaped composition of psychedelic signs, graffiti tags, and spatial illusions that encompasses anything, everything and nothing.

Although Krushenick's work from the 1960s is defiantly non-objective, it is rife with spatial illusions and their contradictions that burst off the canvas.»

Even among the growing number of painters inspired by a mingling of spatial illusion and surface event, Saulnier reveals an acute sense of impunity in his work.

Lisa Norris Gallery presents a new exhibition, a solo show by artist Gwenyth Fugard, Spatial Illusions that will open on 23rd April and will run until the end of May.

The installation enhanced the atmosphere through the use of light and shadow and the incorporation of spatial illusion.