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.
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.
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.
Not exact matches
You can view the 3 - D content through traditional red - and - cyan glasses if you like, but
Spatial View also makes autostereoscopic lenticular lenses that fit over the iPhone screen to create the
illusion of depth without the kooky spectacles.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute scientists at The Salk Institute have discovered a new class
of optical
illusion that they have studied in detail to show that humans use both the timing and
spatial...
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.
Craig Kalpakjian Many
of Craig Kalpakjian's works present
spatial conundrums,
illusions of three dimensions which confuse inside and outside, artifice and reality.
J.T. Thompson's
Illusion at Triangle Gallery by Joyell Nevins For painter J.T. Thompson, his latest exhibition at the Burnell R. Roberts Triangle Gallery, «
Illusion of Spatial Extent into the Labyrinth,» is a chance to come back to the place where it all began.
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.
He went through his black and white phase, and came out the other side in the late 1970s making paintings and prints
of utter clarity, but which reintroduced colour, built up paint in low relief and explored once more the
illusion of three dimensions, suggesting volume and
spatial depth in what could look a little like a late - century and cheerier abstract take on Giorgio de Chirico's bleak city centres in lovely, hard colours.
In these works, Dubuffet carefully uses a range
of scales to create
spatial illusion.
Some
of the works relate through their textual sources, optical and
spatial illusion, recursive imagery, and graphic experimentation.
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.
Polke's painted «lens» generates a variety
of distortions, mutations and
spatial illusions when seen from different viewpoints.
Transforming a communal space, creating an
illusion of depth, and erasing
spatial borders, Lin alters our perception
of volume by producing an effect
of infinitude.
This formal tension between colour and form results in an ambiguous field
of spatial depth and
illusion, as seen in Sin Título (Untitled), 1955.
Visiting Robert Ruello's third solo exhibition at Inman Gallery, I was reminded
of the term «abstract illusionism,» which critic Barbara Rose coined in the late 1960s to describe painters using trompe - l'oeuil devices to create
spatial and other pictorial
illusions in non-representational painting.
Both works demonstrate Moon's practice
of making crossing lines suggest surface and
spatial illusion, despite the flatness
of the colour.
With these works — razor - sharp depictions
of abstract, brushily painted, sculptural tableaux, for the most part — not only does one struggle to identify the medium, but the compositions traffic in shadowy
illusion and
spatial ambiguity, making it hard at times to know exactly what is being portrayed.
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.
Krebs, too, works with gradations
of light and dark hues in
spatial relationships, often using combinations
of rectangles, squares, and ellipses methodically plotted out in works that border on optical
illusion.
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.
Composed
of basic but indefinable shapes and marks, his works often invoke
spatial and figural
illusions, though they remain elusive
of any descriptive narrative.
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.
Through subtle changes
of color and intensity, his hard - edge band style produces soft edge light vibration and
illusions of spatial expansion.
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.
«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»
What I'm trying to say is that the «triggers» (good word)
of the space
illusion are only going to work because they are associated with a particular type
of spatial sensation in the real world, so that the illusory space that is evoked is actually tied to that particular
spatial sensation, making the pictorial space at least in this sense figurative.
The installation enhanced the atmosphere through the use
of light and shadow and the incorporation
of spatial illusion.
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.
A combination
of different materials aims to present an intricate architectural space and
spatial illusion that extends the narrative beyond the boundary
of the boxes.
The title
of the present work For Picabia perhaps references Stella's «preoccupation with wiping out Cubism, whose vestigial
illusions of luminous, layered spaces he hoped to replace with another, fresher kind
of spatial construction» (Robert Rosenblum quoted in L. Rubin, Frank Stella Paintings 1958 to 1965: A Catalogue Raisonne, New York, 1986, p. 11).
An early rudimentary form was Cubism, specifically analytical Cubism - which rejected linear perspective and the
illusion of spatial depth in a painting, in order to focus on its 2 - D aspects.
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.
Cautiously placed furniture pieces, ornate clocks, pre-romantic statuettes, and an elegantly patterned rug flesh out the detailed set, while three wall murals feed into the
illusion of spatial depth.
The title
of the present work For Picabia perhaps references Stella's «preoccupation with wiping out Cubism, who's vestigial
illusions of luminous, layered spaces he hoped to replace with another, fresher kind
of spatial construction» (Robert Rosenblum quoted in L. Rubin, Frank Stella Paintings 1958 to 1965: A Catalogue Raisonne, New York, 1986, p. 11).
Make no mistake, should the
spatial illusions Fiona Rae creates appear at times to reference Pollock and de Kooning, and her disparate and apparently random marks bring Kandinsky to mind, her work fizzes and buzzes with the frenetic energy and fast - paced lifestyle
of the 21st century — her chosen subject matter.
His paintings are
illusions that afford us a better understanding
of spatial questions and reduce the dissatisfaction we feel when confronted with a new pictorial language.
«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.»
«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.
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.
And I agree with the suggestion that a large part
of the job
of painting is to resolve its
spatial illusions with its two - dimensionality.
One
of the most compelling charms
of painting for painters is this duality
of spatial illusion and gross materiality.»
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.
The presence
of higher
spatial resolution information in the regional models, beyond what can be accomplished by interpolation
of the global model output to a finer grid mesh, is only an
illusion of added skill.
However, type 4 downscaling, while providing the
illusion of higher skill because
of the high
spatial resolution climate fields, has never shown skill at prediction beyond what is already there in the parent global model.
The mechanics
of the models produce regional scale results, but, until the multi-decadal regional predictions
of changes in climate statistics can be shown to be skilful, the added
spatial resolution provides an erroneous
illusion of skill.