The large scale of modern art, including the American Color Field painters, was a major break with the historical convention of easel painting. The scale of these works allows the viewer to actually “walk into” the painting since the edges disappear from the viewer’s line of vision. This dramatically challenges naturalistic perspective. The spatial experience [...]
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Painting Big – Modern Art and the Large Scale Canvas
February 21st, 2010 
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Tags: Art Canvas, Canvas Art, Chevron, Chevrons, Different Shapes, Easel, Geometric Forms, Helen Frankenthaler, Interplay, Jackson Pollack, Kenneth Noland, Large Scale, Line Of Vision, Major Break, Modern Art, Negative Spaces, Painters, Rectangles And Squares, S Line, Spatial Experience 
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