Sentences with phrase «surface of the picture»

In Nude (Study), Sad Young Man on a Train his transitory though acute interest in Cubism is manifested in the subdued palette, emphasis on the flat surface of the picture plane, and in the subordination of representational fidelity to the demands of the abstract composition.»

When you look at it, the flat surface of the picture seems to heave and ripple before your eyes.

Like Halvorson's earlier works, these are also poised on the boundary between illusionistic, depicted space and the material surface of the picture plane.

On the topmost layer Degen has built up the paint into a web - like pattern, linking the entire surface of the picture together.

Colored planes of splattered and solid resin were painted under the actual surfaces of the pictures, that depicted deep space often inspired by Renaissance perspective.

The whipped, lathery surfaces of her pictures suggest the thickly applied paint of such other English painters as Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach; in Oulton's work, though, the swirls of color are built up, not from gobs of paint heaped on heavily, but from distinct,

The Cubist style emphasized the flat, two - dimensional surface of the picture plane, rejecting the traditional techniques of perspective, foreshortening, modeling, and chiaroscuro and refuting time - honoured theories of art as the imitation of nature.

Krauss describes late modernist painting as obsessed with «the originary surface of the picture frame.»

An exploration of the artist's approach to the painted surface of the picture plane from early modernist works influenced by Cubism through the age of Abstract Expressionism.

As the work vacillates between obscurity and specificity, it also plays with the depth and surface of the picture plane.

Taylor's «B» is angled to remind us that it has been applied on the flat surface of the picture, not on the door in illusionistic space; the white drips on the floor could be in the room itself, or a result of his vigorous work on the canvas.

Vera Iliatova, Richard Baker and Larry Rivers» large - scale still life works are full frontal on the surface of the picture plane with landscape pushed to the background.

I often say I would be swiping this color, or I'm swiping the placement of these colors on the surface of my picture.»

He extended his scale, worked unstretched on the floor and the wall and began using his spray guns and air compressors to vary the surfaces of his pictures.

Impastoed patches of oil paint hover over the surfaces of the pictures; «under,» too — Owens enjoys trading in now - you - see - it - now - you - don't perceptual games.

The Fleischer Studios of the 1920s and»30s created a flat world with rhythms that travel on the surface of the picture plane.

«When I work I move back and forth between the creation of illusionistic space and a fully non-representational relationship with the process, the surface of the picture, and even the formal considerations relating to its shape,» says Ms Adams.

It's as if Trosch has lifted such a mat onto the surface of his picture plane, embedding the chichi silhouettes of Western collectors into the fabric of an exotic, luxury item.

«Around this time, Laura really started pushing herself further in a lot of ways in terms of how to build a surface of the picture,» Rothkopf said.

The surfaces of her pictures are built from layers of acrylic paint, charcoal and coloured pencil in vintage, jewel - like colours: mahogany and maroon, peach and lime, ice - blue and old rose.

This looser linear arrangement is combined with two motifs, focused in the upper and lower zones, which are then more subtly repeated, in different colors, over the surface of the picture.

It was at that point that he started using nature as a precise referent, no matter how faintly the surface of a picture alluded to natural images.Shortly after that stage, the allusiveness faded and the subject matter became increasingly explicit.

The series begins with a portrayal of a young androgynous girl which formally pays homage to Manet's strong black outlining of figures, drawing attention both to the surface of the picture plane and the paint.

The work employs a diverse lexicon of art historical references, but takes particular influence from notions developed during the Rococo period concerning the motivating effect that sinuous form exerts upon the beholder's gaze, leading it around the surface of the picture as if following a dancer.

In works such as The Dreamer, Ridgway cuts hundreds of tiny pieces from the paper to have their hanging shapes open the surface of the picture plane and cast shadows over the composition.

It was localised into blandness, it sat on the surface of the picture and it worked as icing on the cake of form: «Look what a pretty patch I am.»

One of Minimalism's main chroniclers, the art historian (and Greenberg protegé) Michael Fried, explained the movement's conceptual concerns in his seminal 1967 essay «Art and Objecthood» by saying that its practitioners saw painting as «an art on the verge of exhaustion, one in which the range of acceptable solutions to a basic problem — how to organize the surface of the picture — is severely restricted....

Over the course of her distinguished career, Davis has painted abstractions, which adhere to the surface of the picture plane.

It was at that point that he started using nature as a precise referent, no matter how faintly the surface of a picture alluded to natural images.

In the latest installment of the Everchanging Appearance series, the artist has randomly stacked and overlapped the materials to cause the images to dissolve each other, causing the objects that were once still faintly recognizable in their «reflections» to completely disappear beneath the surface of the picture.

The other big deal was the idea of the integrity of the surface of the picture - that you should not violate the picture plane.

together underneath the surface of the picture plane.

The content of the works hover between abstraction and representation, depicting film titles that appear as if they are fading into obscurity while the names of the stars seemingly float to the surface of the picture plane.

The imagery appears to extend or recede from the surface of the picture plane through the artist's carefully developed variations on colour theory and architectural elements with influences of Op art and Mathematical perspectives.

Her first L.A. solo show, at Honor Fraser in 2008, leaned mostly toward flash — big canvases, a blaring neon palette, heaps of stylishly graffiti - inflected activity buzzing across the surface of the picture plane — complicated by glimpses of what looked to be a soundly developing painterly intelligence.

Beginning in the 1950s, while continuing to construct multi-layered canvases filled with small, irregular shapes and thin, fluid lines, Brooks transformed the surface of his pictures.

Trying to sum up the artist's appeal, writers have tended to resort to formulations like «giving life to the surface of the pictures», or «knowing how to compose a true painting».

The eye is led, lulled, tricked, surprised - and delighted - as it travels over the surface of each picture.

Another technique he picked up from the Paris School was collage, the art of affixing bits of paper and other objects to the surface of the picture.

Due to numerous pastose, not too colorful layers, the surface of the picture receives a relief structure, leading to a plasticity of the pictures nearly resembling a sculpture.

The idea of being able to spread color out along the surface of the picture without having it create an illusion - this was very appealing to us.»

There is a wonderful impression of moving air and deep distance that holds this delicious tension with certain asserted edges that bring us back to the surface of the picture - plane.

Is the texture part to stamp out where the surface of the picture is, do you think?