Sentences with phrase «eastern calligraphy»

Mehretu layers a range of influences and art historical references as well, from the dynamism espoused by the Futurists, to the scale and physicality of Abstract Expressionism, to the divergent markmaking of Albrecht Dürer, Eastern calligraphy, and graffiti.

Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976) American painter noted for abstract works fusing Pollock with eastern calligraphy.

These marks often appear an amalgam of Eastern calligraphy and Western graffiti.

Originally curated by Jeffrey Deitch in 1984 and mounted at Heller's former uptown space, this revived group exhibition tracks the connections between seemingly disparate traditions of graffiti, Modernism, and Middle - Eastern calligraphy.

Middle Eastern calligraphy on display at a New York City art gallery is being touted as a vehicle for dialogue between Middle East and the West.

Not exact matches

It has become common to applaud Jinchi for successfully synthesizing certain Eastern and Western traditions, namely Islamic calligraphy and Abstract Expressionism.

Influenced by Western modernism, the artists address Eastern culture, philosophy and tradition on subjects like ch» i (energy flow), ink calligraphy, huxi (breathing, or to breathe), and traditional window frames.

Drawing upon Rembrandt's The Slaughtered Ox (1638) and Francis Bacon's meat paintings, Huan juxtaposes human and animal flesh alongside Chinese calligraphy, thus bringing together eastern and western traditions.

She spent six weeks studying Chinese calligraphy with Wang Dong Ling and Chinese landscape painting with Professor Yang at the Zhejiang Art Academy in Haungzhou, an experience which has inspired the unification of Eastern and Western ideologies in her abstract paintings.

Liu's art practice sits at the interface of Eastern and Western traditions of art, referencing a variety of styles, from Abstract Expressionism to Chinese calligraphy.

Finlay's poetic work with its focus on the language and beauty of the letter is particularly relevant to our region, where the tradition of calligraphy and the rich history of the written word are integral to Middle Eastern artistic canons.

The works are rife with clichéd symbols, such as Arabic calligraphy, fragments of ceramic artifacts, images of camels and political cartoons, in an attempt to create work that will meet Western expectations for a brand of contemporary Middle Eastern art much in the same way that smiling Mao and Panda paintings became the brand for post-Cultural Revolutionary art in China in the 1980's.

Across 121 inches, Reborn Sounds of Childhood Dreams III (2015) shows El Salahi at his best, expertly fusing a modernist visual language, African and Middle Eastern symbology, and the sinuous simplicity of calligraphy.

Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976), known as the «Sage of Seattle,» was greatly influenced by Asian calligraphy and Eastern religions, converting to the Baha'i faith, which stresses the equality and unity of mankind.

With more than 45 paintings, drawings, and sculptures, the exhibition examines the ways in which Eastern traditions from Chinese and Japanese calligraphy to Zen Buddhism helped advance Abstract Expressionism's aesthetic agenda — its understated lyricism, its compositional balance, its subtle awareness of place — regardless of the artist.

Although there are other contemporary painters whose work displays an affinity with Eastern thought, especially Chinese and Japanese poetry and calligraphy, in Bill Jensen's paintings the dark vein of the American romantic tradition, which runs deep in his sensibility, has always threatened to break out.

The Inaugural Exhibition of this gallery of Middle Eastern art is devoted to a painter who seamlessly fuses Iranian traditions of miniatures and calligraphy with the dynamic strokes and textured surfaces of western abstraction.

Romare Bearden, often referred to as the nation's foremost collagist, was a prolific and innovative artist whose work referenced a variety of artistic heritages — from Mexican muralists and cubist modernism to abstract expressionism, Chinese calligraphy and Eastern philosophy, and African art — and contained many cultural references: music (especially jazz), southern and urban culture, African and Greek art, family, religion, and politics.