Sentences with phrase «european painterly tradition»

Related to her memorable installation presently at the New Museum, it shows an imaginary black dancer in a blue leotard in a bold pose reminiscent of Sargent's Madame X (1883 — 84), and equally boldly painted — few artists have more strongly claimed and reconfigured European painterly traditions than she.

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In the aftermath of the Mexican revolution, the country's artists forged a new painterly vocabulary, which fused European modernism with local folkloric traditions, and became a global phenomenon.

While the formal still lifes may conjure associations with Audubon and are occasionally mistaken for watercolors or drawings, the consequence of motion is a startling and surprising range of subtle colors, suggesting painterly strategies that refer to a long tradition of European still life painting.

There, she developed a highly personal painterly style - synthesizing an Abstract Expressionist tendency with the traditions of high European painting.