After Matisse we very quickly reached a point
where flatness became the litmus test for purity in painting.
The left - hand side of the Galaxy Ace just houses the volume up and down button,
where the flatness of the screen is clearly on show and in a way that once again mimics the iPhone 4's with its very level retina screen — only with much less of a premium cost attached.
The left - hand side of the Galaxy Ace just houses the volume up and down button,
where the flatness of the screen is clearly on show and in a way that once again mimics the iPhone 4's with its very level retina screen — only
Not exact matches
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flatness can be your enemy, and that's
where contour comes in.
Those
where fun, until you got tired of plain
flatness.
The earlier paintings have an appropriately stylised and naïf Kitchen Sink / Ashcan school look
where even the whites of the eyes have a dull, sallow - coloured
flatness to them.
In this case, low - key violets and greens along the edges set up an expectation of deep space in the center, exactly
where an incandescent swath of yellow — by far the warm ¬ est, most saturated area — thrusts to the surface, asserting color, light and
flatness as dominant concerns.
Like in Medieval tapestries,
where there is tension between the pictorial depth and the
flatness of the woven surfaces, my paintings hover in a similar duality.
Here, she brings these paintings full circle to Purchase College,
where the grand scale and the
flatness of the buildings highlight the architectural legacy of the college, designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes within a rural landscape in the early 1960s and «70s.
Without a visual anchor, viewers can only drift within the spaces in which grid and cross intermingle, uncomfortably caught between two - and three - dimensional spaces
where boundaries between pictorial depth and surface
flatness begin to get fuzzy.
Proving the painting's
flatness with frontal shapes or solid stripes must have seemed superfluous or monotonous to him; he wanted movement; he wanted your eyes to dance and skitter across the painting,
where the ground might be mottled or solid,
where the shifts of color and surface pull you closer,
where the space between the planes and vibrate or smolder,
where color intensities vary considerably.
Though that's likely to seem like a boring formal conceit to some, in an age
where we look at flat screens all day long, it's unsurprising that artists are trying to understand the depths of
flatness.
Reflecting on multi-dimensional scapes
where notions of analog and digital are merged to an extent
where new realities are presented; the exhibition eliminates the juxtapositional gaps of context between abstraction and representation, fact and fiction, volume and
flatness.
Shama Khanna is a curator, educator and writer based in London
where she curates «
Flatness», a multi-format research and commissioning project.