For me, the legacy of the Pictures Generation is a desire to disrupt
the surface illusion of reality and to access another dimension.
Not exact matches
It further looks at Leonardo's example and how he developed this linear perspective but then continues with the development
of chair - scuro (light to dark shading) and their oil paint blending to continue developing the
illusion of reality on a flat
surface in their Still life paintings.
Here's Patrick Heron's take on it: But the secret
of good painting —
of whatever age or school, I am tempted to say — lies in the adjustment
of an inescapable dualism: on the one hand there is the
illusion, indeed the sensation,
of depth; and on the other there is the physical
reality of the flat picture -
surface.
All the works are optically dynamic and by their play between
reality of paint,
illusion in the eye and
reality of idea in the mind, force attention both to the
surface and to the idea.
Offering a counter-vision to a computer - generated dependence,
Surface Tension partakes in a growing dialogue about digital aesthetics,
reality versus
illusion, and hands - on approaches to the paradigm
of digital art as we currently understand it.