Sentences with phrase «toward flatness»

Greenberg argued that the evolution of painting was one of historical determinacy — that ever since the Renaissance, pictures moved toward flatness, and the painted line moved away from representation.

The simple idea that art moves toward flatness and abstraction leads, for Rose, into Minimalism, and «ABC Art» is often considered the first landmark essay on Minimalist art.

Not exact matches

After years of Clement Greenberg - decreed movements toward resolute flatness and «purity,» an impurification of abstract painting was underway.

These developments, Greenberg argued, freed color and pictorial flatness and non-depictive space for a sort of self - display toward which he believed modern painting had long striven.

And it certainly wasn't geared toward a lyrical exploration of flatness, as it was for Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis or Kenneth Noland.

Thus began a change in painting philosophy, moving away from the style of flatness for which Stella was known, toward new explorations of space and depth — a transformation that would be integral to the painter's evolution.

From Greenberg's perspective, the history of Western art in the 20th century could be seen as an almost positivistic march — from Paul Cézanne's experiments with flatness and colour at the beginning of the century through the Abstract Expressionists» gestural canvases — toward abstract art.