Trained in traditional Japanese art, Murakami saw similarities between the flat composition of Japanese painting and the simplified aesthetics of anime (Japanese animation) and manga (Japanese comics).
On my studio visit where I shot Wray's film in a quiet neighborhood in Pasadena, California, Wray educated me on Raimond Staprans architecture of flat composition, J.C. Leyendecker's role during the Golden Age of American Illustration and Richard Bunkall's brooding urban landscapes.
In the 1960's Hines responded to Color Field painting with simple, flat compositions of circles, horseshoe shapes and flat planes in subtly harmonized hues.
Twenty-four workspanninging two decades and arrayed here like sentries, portray Cézanne's mistress turned wife, Hortense in radically flat compositions.
In the 1960s, after moving to New York, he began cutting holes in his canvases and inserting wooden constructions into the otherwise flat compositions — making him one of a group of artists who were blurring the boundary between painting and sculpture.
Murakami coined the term himself, but it actually derives from the practice of Edo period painter, Jakuchu Ito, who made completely flat compositions of large groups of animals.
The result was Plus Minus, a score which provides some basic musical material, and then much more elaborate instructions for turning that material into a finished piece – a sort of flat-pack composition.
It's a place where the graffiti might read "René Magritte Was Here (de Chirico, Too)," but Billout's concerns are his own: his drawings (or are they paintings? or both?) often employ tricks of scale and perspective, along with large expanses of deceptively flat color, compositions that resolve in witty visual jokes while tapping deeper currents of unease.
The flat, bilateral compositions thwart that natural urge.
The perspective system that we know and love lost its dominance over visual art over the early centuries of Christian culture, giving way to hierarchical space and flat, attenuated compositions.
The Nomarski microscopy showed that the surface of specially prepared layers was flat and the composition of layers, measured by Fourier transform infrared microscopy, was homogenous.
