Sentences with phrase «european classical traditions»

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.

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It's certainly a bold move for a director who comes from a tradition of more classical, dramatic European filmmaking.

Drawing on the classical tradition of bourgeois European painting, Yiadom - Boayke inverts this staid style by placing dark - skinned subjects on her canvases, though her loose, blurred brushstrokes negate any traces of racial distinction.

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.