With these paintings, I am finding ways to make the painting sculptural, to introduce space, but I don't want to do
that with illusionistic depth.
After nearly a decade spent refining his work in jute and canvas, Manish began experimenting
with illusionistic murals, photography, and sculpture.
These abstract canvases are then overlaid
with illusionistic motifs taken from, among other images, Baroque painting, Hollywood studio advertisements, televised war coverage, and political propaganda.
Frank Stella's approach to abstraction evolved from his minimalist geometric works in the early 1960s to gestural «narrative abstraction,» of which this print is an example,
with illusionistic references to forms and shapes of the world.
Stubbs has talked in terms of the visuality of the computer screen
with its illusionistic stacking and overlaying of windows that requires no materiality, save that of light.
Since the dawn of civilization, artists have been experimenting
with illusionistic devices meant to trick the eye.
Real space interacts
with illusionistic space in Conversation, If and Yellow Light, all of which are built of two or more panels of varying reliefs.
The haunting spaces of the observatory in Jaipur and of the pavilions at Fatehpur Sikri led to renewed experiment
with illusionistic representation of architectonic volumes.
Not exact matches
I wasn't satisfied
with a painted
illusionistic texture and so I carefully extruded thin thread - like lines of oil paint out of a little plastic bag to re-create the three - dimensional terry cloth texture that I desired.
The solo exhibition will also showcase
illusionistic drawings made
with dry pastel and sculptures made of compressed jute, newspaper and old clothes — works that Nai is increasingly earning renown for.
The Los Angeles based artist will continue to explore ideas of space and motion
with these works and is applying new media technology to create the
illusionistic environments.
Thus,
with no formal training in sculpture, but an interest in exploring the
illusionistic potentials of three - dimensional space, Simpson began making constructed forms, both wall based and freestanding, from corrugated cardboard, some titled Corrugated Drawings (1978 — 1980).
Faust is widely known for his abstract paintings and sculptures that employ color to convey emotion and meaning, often
with the use of
illusionistic effects.
«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.
What changed for Thiebaud in his landscapes of the 1990s and 2000s was the incorporation of Diebenkorn's sense for structure,
with angled rays acting as both abstract lines of force and
illusionistic lines of sight.
Perceptually deceitful, or even
illusionistic, solid material travels back and forth between sheer obscurity and physical presence: as
with Kasten's photographic work, the scale and materiality are interchangeable and thus become co-dependent.
Between Spaces will include film, installation, photography, and sculpture that address themes of nostalgia, a preoccupation
with materiality, and the creation of
illusionistic and psychological shifts in space.
They are painted in a trompe l'oeil manner
with the picture plane serving literally as a flat surface and these
illusionistic images are cross referenced
with their physically real counterparts strung throughout the gallery.
Patterns and gestures are visually at odds
with grids and conical
illusionistic shading.
These renderings are then executed in acrylic paint and overlaid
with enlarged drawings painted
with a vinyl paint that alternately reinforces the
illusionistic space of the painting and calls to attention the physical reality of the paintings» two - dimensional linen support.
He began building his works so that they would project off the wall, combining
illusionistic painted space
with real space.
With the help of 3D glasses provided by the gallery, one can also see the surface magically piercing into the print creating an
illusionistic view of a crater.
She teases the viewer
with the promise of
illusionistic painterly space and then she catapults her canvas into the void, forcing it to exist in real time, building little fortresses, and firing cannons in its general direction.
A pioneer in painting, Murray's distinctively shaped canvases break
with the art - historical tradition of
illusionistic space in two - dimensions.
Maine's use of carefully chosen pre-existing materials deployed in the «real» space found just in front of the supporting wall sculpturally counters the
illusionistic tendencies of painting while clearly echoing painterly concerns
with color and structural relationships.
In other pieces in the show, everyday objects such as books are transformed by applying to them the geometry of paper ornaments and minimalist sculpture (Minimal Bibliography), and photographed window fences
with geometric designs are isolated from their functional environment by cutting the prints and flattening the
illusionistic space of the photograph, thus relating those specific daily life situations
with the idealistic language of modernist geometric abstraction (Popular Geometry).
In approaching The Arcades Project (Harvard University Press) for the first time in earnest I explored Benjamin's use of «phantasmagoria,» traced it back through letters
with Adorno, to Marx, to the 17th - century
illusionistic «theatre of phantasmagoria,» and developed an essay about illusions created on social media for a journal tasked
with addressing the rise of authoritarian populism around the globe.
The juxtaposition of disparate images
with graphic renderings in an ambiguous,
illusionistic space in Burns to Breathe (Got ta Have a Better Attitude)(2014, 40 x 38.5 inches) recalls the «inscapes» of Surrealist painter Roberto Sebastián Matta, who combined unexpected imagery
with unconventional painting techniques to create fantastic landscapes intended as landscapes of the mind.
The much larger Double Horizon (2014) shows Britton's continued fascination
with combining painterly abstraction and
illusionistic imagery.
If we adopt the screen then as the emblem of the contemporary optic, we presumably regard contemporary painting as somehow marking a return to a quasi-classical conception of its task as one of
illusionistic affect... The intelligence lies in suggesting that materiality can persist as a key affective dimension of painting only if its terms are re-written... Recent paintings, like Michael Stubbs's work towards a diminished materiality, resulting in something more akin to the continuous surface associated
with the varnished skin of an Old Master painting than to the opaque porosity of a Hofmann or Still.
Painting
with airbrushed acrylic on nylon mesh or Mylar has the effect of layering
illusionistic space on top of the painting's actual, material space.
To the Brooklyn - based artist James Esber, «Paintings are unique objects
with a strong physical presence that are also in some way
illusionistic.»
In New York, the smaller Parisian formats were quickly associated
with fussy
illusionistic spaces, and in an eagerness not to miss the train of Greenberg's seductive theories, too many American painters fell for his Kantian logic of progress in art and the eventual critical endgame of the death of painting that followed.
Bridget Riley (b. 1931) is one of the foremost exponents of Op Art, a style that plays
with human perception to produce optically
illusionistic works of art.
From the nineties to his death, Golub's work shifted toward the
illusionistic,
with forms semi-visible, and appropriated graphic styles from ancient carvings, medieval manuscripts, and contemporary graffiti.
In «Chromatic Geometries,» her seventh solo exhibition at Arden Gallery, Mattera has decisively moved away from the layered, atmospheric approach of earlier «Silk Road» and «Vicolo» series to explore,
with her customary virtuosity, the possibilities of figure - ground relationships and the
illusionistic space conjured by dividing the square into two horizontal rectangles.
Ferguson's paintings are comprised of built - up troweled layers of plaster
with uneven surfaces, repeated patterns and
illusionistic depth that suggest something representational yet actually derived from geometric variations created on her computer.
In my current paintings, I have reintroduced the idea of
illusionistic space in a way that stays true to the abstract forms that I have been experimenting
with for the past 5 years.
Through painting, Maygarden's unique works possess an abstract
illusionistic quality, confounding the viewer
with a seemingly computer - generated aesthetic.
While Lawrence employed photography and
illusionistic devices in his constructions, Gauthier incorporates photographic enlargements of installations in her mixed - media works, combining these images
with encaustic and graphite on wood.
(It is worth noting that in 1967, around the same time that Plimack Mangold started doing the floor paintings, Al Held began working on his
illusionistic black - and - white paintings, which have often been credited
with, as Robert Storr recently put it in his catalogue essay, «muscl [ing] painting back into three dimensions without betraying its character as painting or his own long - standing commitment to the primacy of gesture.»
Throughout his long career, Stella has used color, surface texture, and space to create dichotomies in his work, adeptly playing
with real space as opposed to
illusionistic space.
So the show begins in 1967 — an explosive moment of optimism and excitement —
with huge
illusionistic, brightly colored, even day - glo paintings, and from there follows the different directions that experimental abstraction painting took in expanding the definition of painting in the post-Greenbergian era.
These repeated interpretations contain a sense of intimacy
with her subjects, and this familiarity has allowed her to move beyond the detail - oriented and
illusionistic aspects of her earlier subjects (such as floors, corners and rulers).
The hugely influential Latvian - born artist, Vija Celmins, stunned the art world in the 1970s
with her beautiful and
illusionistic paintings of nature in tonal gradations of gray.
The juxtaposition of painterly effects (rounded forms and
illusionistic volumes)
with more graphic elements (flat, opaque backgrounds and sharp edges) strongly reinforces this message.
Minimalist art eliminated figurative images and
illusionistic pictorial space and replaced them
with a single image, often composed of smaller segments organized in a grid pattern.
Working like the Roman god, Vulcan, forging calderas and caverns
with deep, rock - like chasms of paint, Berg's
illusionistic space offers no horizon, only an ever - changing, tumultuous world where time and space are uncertain.
Ever since his softly overpainted Views of Corsica series of 1968 - 69, the artist has revisited and reprised its possibilities, creating black - and - white townscapes based on newspaper picture and amateur photographs, mountain and park scenes
with heavy impasto,
illusionistic seascapes in subtly gradated tones and paintings worked
with abstract overpainting.
This has sort of changed the perspective direction of a lot of post-analog painting, because whereas before, figurative painting functioned as a «window,» a recessive space
with the illusion of depth, now there is a push towards
illusionistic projection and forward movement.