Flatness (art) - Wikipedia
WEBThe term flatness can be used to describe much of the popular American art work of the 1950s and 1960s. The art of this period had a basic yet colorful design that held a degree of two dimensional form.
Medium Specificity & Flatness - Terms and Concepts | TheArtStory
WEBJan 21, 2020 · Flatness, or what Greenberg described as the "literal two-dimensionality" of the canvas was considered the defining element of medium specificity in painting. As he noted, "flatness alone was unique and exclusive to pictorial art... the only condition painting shared with no other art."
Flatness (art) - The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
WEBThe term flatness can be used to describe much of the popular American art work of the 1950s and 1960s. The art of this period had a basic yet colorful design that held a degree of two dimensional form.
Delimitation of Flatness in Paintings in: Art & Perception Volume …
WEBMay 19, 2018 · This essay is a double exemplification: the first is a visual one based on Goodman’s theory of symbols showing that art can exemplify the delimitation of the flatness. I illustrate this claim with five achromatic paintings contrasting the materiality of the canvas with its visual elements.
ON FRONTALITY - Artforum
WEBIn the light of the frontality of Newman’s paintings, the color cannot be felt simultaneously as spatial and as present on or in the surface. One either sees the flatness of the surface, or the transparency of the color. The color cannot inform or …
WEBIt was the stressing of the ineluctable flatness of the surface that remained, however, more fundamental than anything else to the processes by which pictorial art criticized and defined itself under Modernism. For flatness alone was unique and exclusive to pictorial art.
Medium Specificity & Flatness In Art: Delving Into The Unique …
WEBMedium specificity and flatness in art: emphasize the unique qualities and limitations of each artistic medium and push boundaries.
THE BODY LANGUAGE OF PICTURES - Artforum
WEBFar from reflecting a simplistic preference for the literal over the ideal, flatness is the stigma of art’s special language. The work’s physical surface is a deliberately neutral ground that does not assign a viewpoint so much as make the viewer aware of …
Notes on Surface: toward a genealogy of flatness | Art History
WEBDec 24, 2003 · Firstly, a powerful link is noted in Greenbergian modernism between optical flatness and psychological depth. Secondly, a preoccupation with the appropriation and reframing of stereotypes is identified in more recent art.
Flatness - Artsy
WEBClement Greenberg famously identified flatness as the defining characteristic of modern art; the progress towards non-objective abstraction—from Courbet through Mondrian—was, for Greenberg, the predominant story of modernism.