Sentences with phrase «classical art forms»

The works express strong contrasting elements, such as the fusion of Western cultural elements with integration of classical and modern art, layered with references from Chinese classical art forms and details.

Fans of classical art forms won't be disappointed, however.

Hear how he, David Hockney and 6 other painters work with the classical art form.

Not exact matches

It constitutes a radical challenge to classical and humanistic axioms with regard to beauty and art, not in the form of an apologetic diatribe but rather of a masterly study in comparative literature.

The history of ancient Greek coinage can be divided (along with most other Greek art forms) into four periods, the Archaic, the Classical, the Hellenistic

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And I was pointing out that popular art forms come and go — classical music was once pop (Franz Liszt elicited reactions akin to those to the Beatles), and that the literary forms of today might one day be less important.

But this article on the closure of New York City's last classical sheet music store is a great reminder that books aren't the only paper - based art form changing with new technologies.

After meeting en route to the opening of «Red Eye: Artists From the Rubell Family Collection,» the two discovered other common interests, including popular music (the Beatles, the Smiths, Led Zeppelin) and the most classical inspiration in all of Western art — the human form.

His art derived inspiration from music (jazz and classical) and nature (seasonal change, plant forms, the sea).

It's in the abstract rhythms of form, whether in the visual arts or classical music, where we experience the pure, universal structure and pulse of art.

Both classical symphonies and abstract expressionist painting are abstract art forms, and I have experienced the connection between them intensely since my twenties.

Yet, this simplicity does not hide any nostalgia for the classical arts but originates from an urge to remain in close contact with the material and expresses a longing to personnally give form to an idea or a sensual experience.

Unable to find further classical art training, he learned of the newly formed New York Academy of Art in the summer of that year created by Andy Warhol and Stuart Pivart training, he learned of the newly formed New York Academy of Art in the summer of that year created by Andy Warhol and Stuart PivArt in the summer of that year created by Andy Warhol and Stuart Pivar.

Sculpture student Anthony Limauro (B.F.A. Fine Arts» 15) referenced classical forms in the contemporary table that he created as part of his senior thesis project.

The installation forms part of The Classical Now, a major exhibition exploring the ways in which Graeco - Roman art has sparked the modern imagination.

This large - scale bronze playfully casts the classical female figure, reimagined in Giorgio de Chirico's surreal paintings, as if she is made of crudely carved polystyrene, further debunking the fetishized art historical form.

Tapestry is the art form of grand houses: depicting classical myths, historical and religious scenes and epic battles.

As ARTINFO «s Benjamin Sutton commented after attending opening night, «the resulting brain (and eye) candy forms a wildly varied but consistently nourishing whole that manages to integrate contemporary ballet, classical and modern (and postmodern) music, visual and performing art wonderfully.»

What's most surprising about the recent return of classical portraiture is realizing how utterly absent it was from the art world for so many years, to such an extent that Andy Warhol — one of the people ostensibly responsible for killing the form — helped found the New York Academy of Art in 1982 in order to salvage the kind of technical fine arts training (most notably figure drawing) that seemed at the time in danger of becoming extinart world for so many years, to such an extent that Andy Warhol — one of the people ostensibly responsible for killing the form — helped found the New York Academy of Art in 1982 in order to salvage the kind of technical fine arts training (most notably figure drawing) that seemed at the time in danger of becoming extinArt in 1982 in order to salvage the kind of technical fine arts training (most notably figure drawing) that seemed at the time in danger of becoming extinct.

Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition exemplifies the artist's rapport with the elongated and elaborate forms of Mannerist art, namely the study of the human body, highlighting the underlying classicism evident in the clarity and potency of all Mapplethorpe's subjects as well as their explosive energy.

Since the late 1960s, Adrian Piper has forged a unique artistic practice that infused classical Minimal sculptural form with explicit political content and introduced issues of race, gender and identity politics into the vocabulary of Conceptual art.

Brooklyn Ballet brings a contemporary vision to the treasured art form of ballet, with repertory and programs that revitalize and re-imagine the classical form.

Known for his imaginative depictions of Chinese and Japanese folklore, culture and history, especially Kabuki — a classical Japanese art form of dramatic dance and song, Yoshitoshi presented the intensity and height of action in his woodblock prints.

Exploring the very nature of painting, both as a form of a visual language and a vehicle of mere expression, Howard Hodgkin rejected any classical and modern art canons.

Its mission is to engage new audiences and show that classical music is a living, breathing art form.

His art derived inspiration from music (jazz and classical) and nature (seasonal changes, plant forms, and the sea).

Having worked with the finest period pieces of furniture from the Regency to Art Deco has given me an eye for proportion and classical form, so important in designing objects with integrity and stature, even though often not having any direct visual connection.

The show will examine his understanding of form and light in the composition of formal portraits, still lifes and figurative works that celebrate the sensual quality of nature and the human body.The works relate strongly to the museum's permanent collection of fine art that includes portraits from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Dutch old master still lifes and studies of the nude and human figure, a staple of western art dating back to the classical forms of Greek sculpture.

Entitled Versus, the new exhibition from the Spanish duo features paintings, drawings, and sculptures that form a cohesive body of work showcasing their signature combination of classical art and elements of graffiti culture.

The grand special exhibition on occasion of the inauguration of the enlarged Kunstmuseum Basel will map the medium's extraordinarily dynamic evolution: the classical idea and form of sculpture grows more flexible and abstract as some artists integrate the trivial stuff of everyday life into their art or blur its spatial and conceptual boundaries, even as others return to the figurative tradition in an effort to set the genre on a new solid foundation.

These arts patrons were among the founders of the MCA, and when the museum began collecting in the mid-1970s, they donated major works by those we now consider «classical» Surrealists, forming an early and continuing collection strength.

The transformation of materiality lies at the foundation of Swallow's practice, with specific reference to Modernism, Native American folk art and classical form.

With reference points ranging from Sudanese cliff dwellings and Native American amphitheaters to classical Greek forms to the mobile structures of nomadic and seafaring groups, Rudofsky's stated goal was to «break down our narrow concepts of the art of building by introducing the unfamiliar world of nonpedigreed architecture» — a notable early instance of non-Eurocentric thinking in the American art establishment.

Thus, we might discern, just below the surface, the faint echo of the classical sculptures that once inspired the pioneers of modernism, the fluid linearity of early Chinese art, or the angular forms of ancient Egyptian funerary sculptures.

Her abstract paintings on canvas and paper employ gestural mark - making and colors that are influenced by the palette and forms of the Chilean landscape, the country's pre-historic rock art, and its classical music.

This form of landscape art was governed by classical concepts, and typically featured classical ruins, and pastoral figures in classical dress.

These paintings from 1962 and 1963 radiate a symmetrical serenity in their velvety colors, classical forms that speak to the art of ancient Greece and Egypt, and their interlocking patterns that evoke Moorish tile decorations.

French street artist Nadège Dauvergne is about to take her wonderful creations, formed from a hybrid of classical painting and street art, to Le Cabinet d'Amateur in Paris.

A part of the fabled Vollard Suite — a group of 100 prints the artist created for the Paris art dealer in Ambroise Vollard in the 1930s that mingle the artist's erotic preoccupations and newfound obsession with classical forms — this piece functions as one of Picasso's many self - portraits - by - proxy, in which he imagines himself in the guise of a (usually priapic) artist from a different era, such as Degas or Raphael, often dallying with a model.

Nu class stands for New Urban Classical music an art form dedicated to exploring the spiritual and artistic depths of sound and structure forged into live performances in primarily contemporary popular music venues.

In an amusing twist, another art / sex mixing was on view, on the form of Jeff Koons's kitschy marble Bourgeois Bust - Jeff and Ilona (1991), the faux - classical portrait of the artist embracing his ex-porn star wife.

Prince plays out — even satirises — the way the female nude is mapped and multiplied in art, from classical sculpture to Renaissance Venuses to the distorted and reconfigured forms of Cubism and Expressionism, as well as in other sources such as pornography and medical text books.

The spiral can be seen as a schematic image of evolution, a symbol for growth or destruction, or a classical form for the orbit of the moon; it is both an expanding force (as a nebula) and a contracting one (like a whirlpool); it is fairly complex and yet is an essential motif of all ornamental art.

According to James Putnam, the exhibition curator: «Their [the group's] art is characterized by a sophisticated provocation juxtaposing incompatible subjects like archetypes and classical forms with contemporary cultural icons.

After primitive forms of cave painting, figurine sculptures and other types of ancient art, there occured the golden era of Greek art and other schools of Classical Antiquity.

They have been cast, like Burton and Taylor, in a variety of showy roles: as painters interested in reviving aspects of the art form in its most staid and classical modes; as Marxist or Marcuseian critics of commodity culture and its discontents; as leering champions of youth movements and counter-culture stylings; as strict, detached, ironic appropriationists; and, finally, as sincere and romantic poets attendant on the tragedy of age's advancing degenerations of the body and of the melancholy states of nostalgia associated primarily with the waning of youthful beauty.

If therefore the student in our laws hath formed both his sentiments and style, by perusal and imitation of the purest classical writers, among whom the historians and orators will best deserve his regard; if he can reason with precision, and separate argument from fallacy, by the clear simple rules of pure unsophisticated logic; if he can fix his attention, and steadily pursue truth through any the most intricate deduction, by the use of mathematical demonstrations; if he has enlarged his conceptions of nature and art, by a view of the several branches of genuine, experimental, philosophy; if he has impressed on his mind the sound maxims of the law of nature, the best and most authentic foundation of human laws; if, lastly, he has contemplated those maxims reduced to a practical system in the laws of imperial Rome; if he has done this, or any part of it, (though all may be easily done under as able instructors as ever graced any feats of learning) a student thus qualified may enter upon the study of the law with incredible advantage and reputation.

A pair of 1940s art moderne table lamps, the classical modern forms crafted of lacquered wood and nickel.