Sentences with phrase «traditional illusionism»

In this way my paintings integrate traditional illusionism and contemporary formalism: they are convincing representations of actual objects as well as abstract arrangements of light, shape, and color.

Not exact matches

The works are rendered in a dynamic style that at once denies and promotes traditional painterly illusionism, thus reflecting the creative visions at stake during this watershed moment.

By refusing to adopt the «old values» of traditional art and asserting the flatness and objectivity of the canvas he was not rejecting completely the energetic brushstrokes of Abstract Expressionism, as is often suggested, but insisting on the development of the overall surface without relying on the illusionism that comes from the visual brushstrokes or the sense of depth that the inclusion of color might imply.

The contemporary abstract artists are of an almost religious temper in their sense of dedication, and will themselves into a highly conscious pictorial celibacy in defiance of traditional, nineteenth - century illusionism.

For over three decades, Jacqueline Humphries has reacted to predictions of painting's obsolescence, employing both traditional and contemporary methods to position the medium's historical binaries — such as authenticity and simulation, handmade and mechanical, and literalism and illusionism — in tight and competing proximity, suspending them from resolution.