By warping the edges, corners and straight lines of
the traditional flat canvas, these three dimensional works become perceptually disorientating when viewed.
Not exact matches
In his paintings Moffett extends the
traditional two - dimensional frame in a number of ways, including converting the ordinariness of the
flat plane into highly textured reliefs, making paintings that are opened up and turned inside out, or presenting intricate illuminations through the use of video projections on the
canvas.
Deriving from a
traditional practice, Wang produces his Coffin paintings by working with his
canvas resting
flat on the studio floor, systematically applying layers of acrylic paint in alternating colors — at times monochromatic, at times colorful — resulting in a densely stratified surface.
Compound
Flat 50, 52, 59, and 58 (subtitled Pink Dropout) are based on stacked double rectangles, suggesting open sash windows — or, again, stretcher bars — divested of their glass or
canvas, with swaths of fabric (actually pigmented epoxy) inserted into the mechanisms, holding them in place, or together; the window idea is borrowed, of course, from
traditional painting.
From 1970 onward, he developed several series in which he expanded the uniform picture plane, not only visually but also physically, by departing from the
traditional flat format of the
canvas.
The back of the cotton / bubble mold is
flat like a
traditional canvas, while the front is undulated and shaped by the impression of the bubbles.
Did you start with more
traditional painting:
flat canvases on the wall?