Sentences with phrase «european modernist tradition»

Abstract Expressionism owed a great deal to the European Modernist tradition.

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This enabled Europeans to justify imperial expansion in both religious and secular terms: for Christians, European imperialism saved souls, and for modernists, it brought progress into a world of backwardness and tradition.2

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

Unlike the Modernists of the 1950s and»60s, many of whom were trained in a European artistic tradition that relied on cultural appropriation, White's repetitive geometric and mask - like forms are the result of his absorption and processing of images in his world outside the academy.

Concerned with the resolution of opposing elements — materially, formally and culturally — Dhanjal's work draws heavily on his experience of Indian aesthetic traditions, blending them with the influence of European and specifically British modernist sculpture.

The first floor is dedicated to Gabriel Orozco's new stone sculptures that stand in the modernist tradition of European sculpture such as Hans Arp, Constantin Brancusi, and Barbara Hepworth and at the same time express the engagement with indigenous cultures.

It was there she was inspired to incorporate non-Western craft traditions inter her European modernist designs.