Sentences with phrase «european classical art»

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The Renaissance was triggered by a new interest in the ancient classical texts and a desire to learn how they could be applied to the arts and sciences - the result was a rebirth of European culture as a whole.

Other strengths in the collection include European medieval art, European and American paintings, Outsider art, classical antiquities, African art and ancient American art.

Colonized by Portugal (and other empires including France and the Netherlands) during 1500 to 1822, the production of art (in the Western perspective) in Brazil was always in dialogue with European classical traditions.

Trained in East Germany in the classical art of realist painting, Richter's images have the quiet stillness of European masterworks, taking in genres such as the still life, landscape and portraiture, but of contemporary subjects that are often rendered like a slightly out of focus photograph.

Curated by Simonetta Fraquelli, an independent curator and specialist in early twentieth - century European art, the exhibition explores Pablo Picasso's work between 1912 and 1924, prior to, during, and after the tumultuous years of the First World War, when the artist began exploring both cubist and classical modes in his art.

She began playing cultural catch - up, devouring not only modern and contemporary art (including Joseph Beuys and Frank Stella) but also centuries» worth of classical European paintings and sculptures that she'd missed at home.

Museum of Western and Oriental Art, Kiev Also known as the Bogdan and Varvara Khanenko Museum of Art, and formerly ranked the third most important museum in the Soviet Union after the Hermitage in St Petersburg and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, the museum's permanent collection (begun 1919) includes Egyptian and Classical antiquities, Byzantine art and icons, Italian Maiolica pottery, Meissen porcelain, Persian Ceramics and Bronze sculpture, Chinese paintings and Chinese pottery, as well as European paintings, sculptures, and etchinArt, Kiev Also known as the Bogdan and Varvara Khanenko Museum of Art, and formerly ranked the third most important museum in the Soviet Union after the Hermitage in St Petersburg and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, the museum's permanent collection (begun 1919) includes Egyptian and Classical antiquities, Byzantine art and icons, Italian Maiolica pottery, Meissen porcelain, Persian Ceramics and Bronze sculpture, Chinese paintings and Chinese pottery, as well as European paintings, sculptures, and etchinArt, and formerly ranked the third most important museum in the Soviet Union after the Hermitage in St Petersburg and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, the museum's permanent collection (begun 1919) includes Egyptian and Classical antiquities, Byzantine art and icons, Italian Maiolica pottery, Meissen porcelain, Persian Ceramics and Bronze sculpture, Chinese paintings and Chinese pottery, as well as European paintings, sculptures, and etchinart and icons, Italian Maiolica pottery, Meissen porcelain, Persian Ceramics and Bronze sculpture, Chinese paintings and Chinese pottery, as well as European paintings, sculptures, and etchings.

Each work has been molded from classical Roman busts used for educational purposes and readily available at art stores in Shanghai, China; these works attempt to represent the proliferation of European artistic influences in China under colonialism, similarly found in his native South Africa.

About 130 works ranging from classical Modernism and the post-war avant - garde via European Zero and Minimalism to international contemporary art are being presented.

Guest curator, Awam Ampka links contemporary art with classical and popular representations of African bodies in European art.

As the fair continues into the rest of the week, gallerists will continue to push for strong sales, hoping that the high - spectacle works and more classical canvases continue to appeal to collectors even after a full week of art fairs on European soil.

The stark Irish scenery with its accompanying sense of tragedy, derived from the days of The Great Famine, found later expression in O'Donoghue's art, as did the knowledge and experience he gained from his father Daniel, who introduced his son to many of the great European cultural traditions derived from Classical Greek art, the Renaissance and later eras.

The next several hours I spent examining his art, and what I found was rather curious: the lenses that proved most helpful in understanding the paintings were those that at first glance seemed the least important, namely my own experiences as a European expat, my history as a lover of all thing classical music, and my scholarly expertise in a number of nonwestern art traditions.

Even more important than his classical training from 1946 until 1948 at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston were the six years he spent immediately afterwards in Paris, where he met European luminaries such as Jean Arp, Constantin Brancusi and Joan Miró, as well as the fellow Americans John Cage, Merce Cunningham and Alexander Calder.

The unheroic nature of modern dress was seen as a major obstacle in the depiction of contemporary scenes, and the Scottish gentleman - artist and art dealer Gavin Hamilton preferred classical scenes as well as painting some based on his Eastern travels, where his European figures by - passed the problem by wearing Arab dress.

A more complex and nuanced understanding of the United States by Europeans would require a stronger presence of classical American art in Europe.

About 130 works ranging from Classical Modernism and the post-war avant - garde via European Zero and Minimalism to international contemporary art are being presented.

From 1948 through 1954 he lived in Paris, where he was influenced by both classical art history and European modernists including Pablo Picasso and Paul Cézanne.