Sentences with phrase «chinese landscape traditions»

Meanwhile, it lets in enough light to recall Western or Chinese landscape traditions.

The level of detail in these prints is mesmerising, and recalls the painstaking Chinese landscape tradition, yet Kantanen's technique is equally suggestive of painters such as Twombly, Innes, or Alex Katz — the pure strokes of colour creating a dream - like world where nothing is fixed.

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This is the assertion that, as the catalogue essay by Dominique de Villepin observes, these «involuntary heirs of two traditions of landscape painting» found a way while living in exile — de Kooning the Dutchman in New York, Zao the Chinese in Paris — to soar free of the constraints of «stifling tradition.»»

The source for his practice is the millennial - old tradition of Chinese landscape painting, using scrolls as his format and ink and paper as his medium.

This work can be interpreted in the simplest, most direct manner — as a stereotyped image of China's food culture and painting traditions, but at the same time, its multiple references to various Chinese social and historical backgrounds make interpretation much more difficult: the use of objects to express morality in Chinese landscaping, satirical poetry mocking ostentatious refinement, and the imitation of handwritten menus to capture a scene of civil life... Viewers unfamiliar with the specific context can easily find themselves lost in the smokescreen of mysterious Oriental poetic calligraphy and bonsai art.

He may use scrolls and work in ink in the millennial - old tradition of Chinese landscape painting, bu...

The works harken back to photographic and filmic traditions as disparate as B - movie science fiction, tourist photography, popular postcards, as well as Chinese and European traditional landscape painting.

With roots in traditions of Chinese landscape painting, my monumentally sized paintings and installations evolve a fantastic, abstract vision of the natural world.

From holiday - themed plastic tablecloths to dried paint shreds and found objects, Hoffman takes inspiration from Chinese landscape and Hudson River School painting, as well as the Philippine weaving and Jewish folk traditions of her ancestors.

After this quick overview of Chinese landscape painting, can we safely say that this art form is truly the most representative art form of Chinese tradition?

The second section of the exhibition, «To Learn is To Create,» showcases earlier works made between 1945 and 1954, a period in which Zao tapped diverse visual traditions and methods, ranging from European painters such as Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, and Paul Klee, to ancient Chinese bronze inscriptions, rubbings from Han - dynasty tomb decorations, and Tang - and Song - dynasty landscape paintings.

★ Metropolitan Museum of Art: «Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China» (through April 6) This museum's first survey of recent Chinese art uses the lens of the culture's ancient brush and ink tradition so basic to its landscape painting and calligraphy.

The sculptures in Blind Portraits resemble Chinese «scholar's rocks,» an artifact of the ancient literati tradition of projecting one's sentiments onto the natural landscape.

«For more than a decade, Yun - Fei has chronicled the harsh reality of the dispossessed in today's China employing the tradition of Chinese landscape painting,» says Tracy L. Adler, director of the Wellin Museum of Art and curator of the exhibition.

They reflect an interest in nineteenth century romantic painting, in abstract expressionism, in Chinese landscape painting, and in the Chinese tradition of so - called «flung ink painting.»

In Untitled (1958), Chu Teh - Chun conflates the Chinese landscape painting tradition with the free spirit of Art Informel and Western abstraction; while in Bangkok III (2013), Andreas Gursky depicts the Chao Phraya as a dark, reflective flow, conjuring a lineage of painterly depictions of water, from the cascading riverbanks of Song dynasty landscape paintings to Claude Monet's Nymphéas.

Cao's art bridges into visual arts with the use of popular culture and shifts through different subcultures and phenomenon to create the surreal landscapes that she is most known for — actors incased in Burberry behaving like dogs reenact a hysteric day in the office, ordinary people dancing to hip - hop on the street, people dressed in Chinese shopping bags and a stage production incorporating Guangzhou's street youths are just a few examples of using the city's everyday life to analyze and render the current social situation where traditions and new influences are constantly in conflict.

★ Metropolitan Museum of Art: «Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China» (closes on Sunday) This museum's first survey of recent Chinese art uses the lens of the culture's ancient brush and ink tradition so basic to its landscape painting and calligraphy.

The use of ink and wash clearly reveals his solid grounding in the centuries - old tradition of Chinese ink landscape painting.