Derived from photographs, these, too, are made with unassumingly capable craft, and they toy cleverly with the tension between illusory depth and painterly flatness.
Working toward the centers of raw plywood panels, he layers grisaille glazes over loose, swirling pencil lines, creating murky depths, serpentine biomorphic forms and tension between illusory dream space and the raw immediacy of paint and wood (Johnson).
This sets up a persuasive tension between the illusory and the material.
It's a philosophically catchy play on the Modernist tension between material fact and illusory fiction in painting.
After all, the tension between the physical and the illusory is what makes painting so enduringly compelling.
Satiny surfaces textured all over by the slight ridges left by removed masking tape bring us back to the material surface, affirming the old Modernist tension between the physical and the illusory.
America's mistakes in Iraq and the pitch of Muslim-Israeli tensions have given it a largely illusory sense of power.On Iraq, the most obvious "crucible", Mr Nasr is not encouraging.
This creates tension between the architecture of the room and the illusory space of the film.
Without honest exchange, and an acknowledgement of the differential power at work in seeking to resolve tensions in perspective, the notion of 'equitable partnership' was seen as illusory.
But I argue that the apparent tension between a democratic justification of the right to free speech and hate speech regulation is illusory.
Op art painters devised complex and paradoxical optical spaces through the illusory manipulation of such simple repetitive forms as parallel lines, checkerboard patterns, and concentric circles or by creating chromatic tension from the juxtaposition of complementary (chromatically opposite) colours of equal intensity.
