Her work stems from her long study of art history and classical genres of portraiture, landscape, and still life. (byhenzel.com)
With very different motivations, paintings were produced that sought to examine the painting tradition, the post-war avant - gardes and the artists» own immediate present to equal degrees: masterfully executed «Bad Painting» encountered classical genre painting or staged dilettantism. (staedelmuseum.de)
But one of the most refreshing aspects of The Last Stand, despite its foreign inflection, is its acceptance of both western and action - film conventions on their own terms, refusing to regard itself as operating outside of or superior to the genre; it aspires instead to simply be a great example of classical genre filmmaking, a modest but nevertheless admirable goal. (slantmagazine.com)