Not exact matches
The birch assemblages function both
as pictures and sculptures, always insisting on their dual
spatial presence and painterly
illusion.
Material
illusions are just
as important to these paintings
as the
spatial ones.
This formal tension between colour and form results in an ambiguous field of
spatial depth and
illusion,
as seen in Sin Título (Untitled), 1955.
Art
as disturber Art
as teacher Art
as entertainer beautiful images bringing out
spatial illusion very interesting
Sometimes, we think we've identified a reference or come to terms with particularly complex
spatial inventions,
as in the Babylon series, in which compressed columnar forms with unstable perspectival
illusions suggest tall buildings.
As is typical for paintings from this period, the present work is characterized by the colliding of flatness with the
illusion of
spatial depth: while the folds in the tablecloth, modulation of the oranges and the cast shadows articulate Hockney's eye for veracity and imply three - dimensionality, the broad, simplified brushstrokes with which the gladiolus and the green backdrop are rendered essentially flatten the composition.
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.
The qualities and intentions attributed to Denny's paintings, of an interactive dialogue between the observer's perception of quotidian architectural space within which they meet the painting and the
spatial illusions created by the paintings themselves — are actually qualities Denny had imbibed from Barnett Newman, in his paintings and his professed intentions (amongst other qualities)-- and so, to denigrate Newman's (and Rothko's)
as subjective, «private» visions is completely unwarranted, but it chimes with Bunker's wish to portray «publicly engaged» art
as somehow an advance on «high modernist» subjectivity.