Word: spatial
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Though Diebenkorn would continue to meditate on other works by Matisse (and Mondrian, and Cezanne, and Bonnard, and so on through a wide classical-modernist pantheon) for the rest of his working life, this particular Matisse, with its simultaneous inside-outside view, thrilled and inspired him: "I noticed its spatial amplitude; one saw a marvelous hollow or room yet the surface is right there...right up front...
...different dot screens. The most captivating moments are the points where the screens overlap, intersect or dissolve into one another. Here Lichtenstein again demonstrates his masterful visual economy, using the exact same dots to signify mist, mountain or perhaps both at the same time. This ambiguity leads to a spatial confusion and mystery as convincing and sophisticated as any of the real Song Dynasty paintings hanging in the galleries upstairs...
...extremely large scale of Lichtenstein's paintings furthers this effect. Their expansive area inscribes the viewer in a spatial relationship that mirrors the tiny scale of the figures in the Chinese paintings' infinite landscapes. Just as the miniature men are almost lost within the Song paintings, we are literally dwarfed by the immense scale of Lichtenstein's work and can never really hold the entire image in our visual field. Only by backing up as far as the gallery allows can we get a good look at the whole composition, but Lichtenstein jokes that we can never really possess nature...
Phyllis Rosser, author of a 1989 book titled The SAT Gender Gap, said girls tend to perform better on algebra and computation questions while boys score higher on spatial reasoning and word problems...
...them in the back row. Yet as his retrospective proves, he has consistently engaged, and sometimes foreseen, the same theoretical issues and artistic strategies of his better-known international counterparts. His installations of room corners, whose walls and base boards seem to seep into the floors, play with spatial perception in a way similar to the work of German artist Blinky Palermo. Mysteriously prescient, his stamped "Insertion" slogans even anticipate Jenny Holzer's "Truisms," which would begin to appear on envelopes and T-shirts nearly 10 years after Meireles' last Coke bottle was recycled. Finally, the ICA's excellent show...