I've been to Yuskavageland — an improbable zone at the intersection of
the European painting tradition, religious iconography, porn, and, I'll argue, performance art.
Drawing from the lushness of nineteenth - century
European painting traditions and imbuing them with local specificity, ethereal qualities, and distinctly Iranian elements, these paintings reinvigorate representational art while simultaneously ushering beauty back into contemporary painting.
Not exact matches
El Greco's
paintings of Toledo became models for a new
European tradition in landscapes.
Namitjira is one the most widely known and loved Aboriginal artists who
painted landscapes in the
European tradition.
Using a condensed and dramatic form mixing elements of comic book art, Californian underground, and murals with the great
European tradition, the large scale religious implementations of the Baroque in particular, Danø works range from the traditional
painting to reliefs and singular objects.
In his oeuvre, he combines the
traditions of
European modernist
painting with influences from American postwar art.
Her
paintings are influenced by
European and American art
traditions and tensions, and she reconciles them with her own pictorial voice, albeit one that gives a shout out to artists including Henri Matisse, David Hockney, Albert Oehlen, and Dana Schutz, to name a few.
Located in Trafalgar Square, London, The National Gallery houses the national collection of
paintings in the Western
European tradition from the 13th to the 19th centuries.
It is Thiebaud knowledge and appreciation for the
traditions of
European painting from Chardin to Morandi that are the basis for his ideas and efforts.
In this new series of
paintings, he draws on Indian and Western
European traditions to create a hybrid visual language with which to relate intimate tales of sensual and spiritual encounter.
According to the museum, her
paintings «embrace many of the conventions of historical
European portraiture, but expand on that
tradition by engaging fictional subjects who often serve as protagonists of the artist's short stories as well.»
Yiadom - Boakye's lush oil
paintings embrace many of the conventions of historical
European portraiture, but expand on that
tradition by engaging fictional subjects who often serve as protagonists of the artist's short stories as well.
Yiadom - Boakye is one of the most renowned painters of her generation, her lush oil
paintings embracing many of the conventions of historical
European portraiture but expanding on that
tradition by featuring purely fictional subjects.
It's easiest to say that Karen Kilimnik is a painter — it's what she's best known for by far, through canvases that blithely mix celebrity icons (Paris Hilton, most famously) with the
tradition of classic
European painting — but that only scratches the surface of her talents.
Inspired in part by a trip with Larry Rivers in 1950 to Paris, where she was especially impressed by the work of Vuillard and Bonnard, she immersed herself in the
tradition of 19th - century
European painting.
The work is part of Varejão's ongoing explorations into the
traditions of azulejos, hand -
painted tiles in Brazil that trace back to when the Portuguese imported Baroque tiles, which were inspired by the cobalt - blue ceramics that
Europeans encountered in China.
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.
Fusing the
traditions of
European painting with the distinct character of American abstraction, Scully's great achievement is the reinvigoration of abstract
painting with the metaphorical, the philosophical, and the sublime combined with the earthy tangibility of
paint.
I see myself as essentially a figurative painter in the
European tradition, attempting to maintain my craft at the highest level, using
paint to explore issues of truth, meaning and value.
As its
European father, the American Impressionism saw different artists gathering and following in its footsteps regarding the depiction of the everyday modern life and the
tradition of the en plain air, started with Monet's landscape
paintings.
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.
Rarely do these commissions make any kind of larger statement about American art, but last fall, when Barack Obama selected Kehinde Wiley — a figurative painter who deploys the techniques, poses and patterns of the grand
tradition of Baroque
European paintings to portray contemporary black and brown men he finds on the street — to
paint his official portrait for the Smithsonian, it at least reflected the Obamas» well - developed connections to the world of culture.
Though there is a long
tradition of geometric abstraction abroad that dates back to Russian Constructivism (Kasimir Malevich) and Dutch Neoplasticism (Piet Mondrian), the
European artists were concerned with a balanced relationship of parts within a whole, whereas Reinhardt, Newman and Rothko stressed the unity of the
painting over all other surface incidents.
The works harken back to photographic and filmic
traditions as disparate as B - movie science fiction, tourist photography, popular postcards, as well as Chinese and
European traditional landscape
painting.
It includes native - born artists who drew in the
European landscape
tradition to reflect on their own culture, as exemplified by José María Velasco's
paintings of Mexico, which not only embrace the
European Enlightenment sensibility, but also a growing sense of national identity.
One of Bearden's «hierographic
paintings,» it is more analytical — and less concerned with religious faith than with trying to work through the
European art - historical
tradition while homing in on a distinctly modern style.
There, she developed a highly personal painterly style - synthesizing an Abstract Expressionist tendency with the
traditions of high
European painting.
The installation at the Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College presents works that convey to what extent the
European tradition of landscape
painting underwent changes in the process of being applied to represent Latin American landscapes.
Reinhardt's and Rothko's ideas about form and color challenged and reconsidered
European artistic
traditions and philosophies, giving rise to a unique American sensibility in art in general, and particularly in
painting.
Luc Tuymans is one of today's most widely admired painters, a continuation of the great
tradition of Northern
European painting and an enduring influence on younger and emerging artists.
Many relate his work to a Northern
European Romantic
painting tradition.
The work is in the
tradition of combining scientific accuracy to create art that is both arresting and botanically correct, many trained in the
European tradition of botanical
paintings, according to the curator.
And unlike Johannesburg, which dived headlong into abstract expressionism, the
tradition of abstract
painting here has always shown a strong
European influence.
Wiley's large
paintings place contemporary black men into the rich
tradition of
European royal portraiture.
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.
Pollock's impression of vast herds thundering over the western plains electrifies Mural, separating it from a
European tradition of landscape
painting.
Two of the Louvre's
paintings, Chardin's La Tabagie and Abraham Mignon's Fleurs dans une carafe de cristal placée sur un piédestal en pierre avec libellule provide examples of the
European still life
tradition.
In Untitled, which depicts a jewel - encrusted knife thrust into a stony surface, George Condo seamlessly melds the
traditions of old
European painting with a strong American Pop - art influence.
Evertz, who moved from Berlin to NYC at the age of 19, sees her work as bridging two opposing aesthetic
traditions: a philosophical Northern
European and a pragmatic American approach to
painting.
To highlight the connection — and a contemporary leap — of Close's work vis - à - vis the Dutch
tradition of portraiture, the exhibition also includes a tapestry (arguably, the first digitized medium in history and of Northern
European origin) and a smaller
painted self - portrait on loan.
A Modern Master
paints a truly cosmopolitan portrait of Chase, who bounced among, and borrowed from, a host of
European artistic
traditions.
«Visitors to Bouquets: French Still - Life
Painting from Chardin to Matisse will appreciate not only the sheer visual splendor of the works on display, but also the discovery of a clear artistic dialogue among artists of different generations working in the floral still - life
tradition,» said Heather MacDonald, the DMA's Lillian and James H. Clark Associate Curator of
European Art, who is the exhibition co-curator.
Yiadom - Boakye, a London native of Ghanaian descent, looks to the historical
European tradition of portraiture but
paints largely fictional characters.
Where an early generation of artists had portrayed the romantic lure of the American Southwest during the nineteenth - century using
European Academic
painting traditions to represent the environment and inhabitants of the region as exotic, Modern artists took a very different approach.
Michael Craig - Martin, one of the leading representatives of an art in which American and
European traditions intermingle, has used
painting, drawing, space, and light to create an overall work of art for his first solo show in Austria.
Green Seascape ($ 2,000 - $ 4,000) by Richard Dempsey is richly
painted in swirling impasto and three landscapes by Anthony Watkins display serene landscapes in the
European tradition.
«American Landscapes: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum,» features landscape
paintings that trace the «evolution of American art from its roots in an emerging national landscape
tradition to the liberating influences of
European modernism» — the progression from the 19th - century Hudson River School to the present.
Hess had championed the American abstract expressionists as the heirs to
European abstraction, which, as Hess argued in his 1951 book on the movement titled Abstract
Painting: Background and American Phase, had formerly been centred in Paris and had recently relocated to New York: «New York becomes Paris for the art of its time, and also takes over Paris»
tradition.»
In the specific context of abstract expressionism, a breakthrough entailed a move away from figuration towards abstraction and, most particularly, from the
European tradition of
painting towards a unique personal style.
For example, the Abstract Expressionists broke
European tradition in the 1940s with their use of materials and process - using house
paints and house
painting brushes, and pouring, flinging, and dripping
paint.