Sentences with phrase «american modernist traditions»

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In his oeuvre, he combines the traditions of European modernist painting with influences from American postwar art.

Known for his handcrafted sculptural installations of crochet, tulle, spices and stones, Neto's renowned art - making practice draws from a wide variety of sources, from Modernist traditions of biomorphic abstraction, through Arte Povera and American Minimalism, to the legacies of Brazilian neo concrete, conceptual and Tropilcália movements.

Pippin, who took up painting after losing the use of his right arm (he was shot in the shoulder during active service in the First World War) trod a line between modernist and folk art traditions: «The painting will serve as a bridge within the broader American collection to reveal complex and often - overlooked relationships between styles and practices», M. Melissa Wolfe, the museum's curator of American art, explained.

But this conjunction of American experience and Parisian modernism is itself the tradition that has so often produced the best American modernist art in this century.

Mr. Adkins's work — cerebral yet viscerally evocative, unabashedly Modernist yet demonstrably rooted in African traditions — has been exhibited at museums and galleries worldwide, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

The work is somewhat genre - defying too, subverting the tradition of American macho - modernist concrete by invoking a form of theatrical accumulation and bricolage.

Mr. Adkins's work - cerebral yet viscerally evocative, unabashedly Modernist yet demonstrably rooted in African traditions - has been exhibited at museums and galleries worldwide, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of our time, Mike Kelley (1954 - 2012) produced a body of deeply innovative work mining American popular culture and both modernist and alternative traditions — which he set in relation to relentless self and social examinations, both dark and delirious.

The occasional shifts in orientation from vertical to horizontal, the strong contrasts, and the shades of blue and green allude to the natural world and the tradition of landscape in American Modernist painting.

Her work is characterised with reference to the lineage of modernist abstraction and in particular Latin American antecedents, non-representational concrete painting, thus establishing cross-cultural dialogue within this international tradition.

These include his relationship with education, his links with modernist architecture, his view of the tradition of painting and of American literature, and his approach to the vernacular, popular culture, youthful initiatory rites and styles of musical subcultures.

Serra struck me, romantically addicted as I was to the art of Jackson Pollock, as the continuer of American art's best traditions, the champion of seriousness and a modernist hero.

Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, Winslow Homer, Richard Diebenkorn, Stuart Davis and Clifford Still have become masters in their art, and are well - known all over the world, as great American painters of the modernist tradition.

Sullivan Goss announces a salon of major American paintings in the Romantic, Luminist, Impressionist, and Modernist traditions.

Her work, on paper and canvas, is in the tradition of American modernist abstraction.

Her work engaged a range of art movements, including surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, the Northern California modernist tradition represented by Adams and White, as well as the broader American landscape tradition embodied in the photographs of Harry Callahan and Ralph Eugene Meatyard.