Pictorial – Page 2

The photograph gives constant

The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism. Dennis Oppenheim

My paintings are loosely based on meta narratives. The pictures float in and out of pictorial genres. Still life’s become personified, portraits become events, and landscapes become constructions. I embrace the area between which the subject is composed and decomposing, formed and formless, inanimate and alive. Dana Schutz

The art in photography

The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before they are purely pictorial… The photograph has to tell a story if it is to work as art. Clement Greenberg

The dissolution of the

The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and answer something profound in contemporary sensibility. Clement Greenberg

…for those whose favorite

…for those whose favorite season is autumn with its days of cloudless sky, of spacious and clear, far-flung panoramas – those who view nature with detachment, for whom nature’s appeal is primarily pictorial, classicists as opposed to romanticists, perhaps. On such a day, one is usually excited, physically exhilarated, mentally stimulated. Only not much is … Read more

Cinema is the culmination

Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct. Camille Paglia

If modern design moved

If modern design moved the stage picture away from the specific, tangible, illusionistic world of Romanticism and Realism into a generalized, theatrical, and poetic realm in which the pictorial image functioned as an extension of the playwright’s themes and structures (a metanarrative), then postmodern design is a dissonant reminder that no single point of view … Read more

There is a cultural

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media. Alva Myrdal

The way I would

The way I would describe a pictorial is that it is a picture that makes everybody say ‘Aaaaah,’ with five vowels when they see it. It is something you would like to hang on the wall. The french word ‘photogenique’ defines it better than anything in English. It is a picture which must have quality, … Read more

The photograph is not

The photograph is not only a pictorial report; it is also a psychological report. It represents the feelings and point of view of the intelligence behind the camera. Alexey Brodovitch