Sentences with phrase «european tradition of painting»

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.

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El Greco's paintings of Toledo became models for a new European tradition in landscapes.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.»

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.

The Americans had broken away from the European and especially French tradition of modern painting, or, in the period language, «the tasteful cookery of oil pigment, the direct backing of the Old Masters and all precedence of rules», as Hess wrote in his obituary of Kline.50 As is recorded in one of the news reports of the acrimonious exchange between Fautrier and Kline at the Venice Biennale of 1960, when Fautrier pronounced an insult to the effect of «U.S. Go Home!»

Best known as a painter of monumental works in oil, Sean Scully (b. 1945) has garnered international acclaim as one of the most prominent painters in the abstract tradition, fusing the conventions of European painting with the distinct character of American abstraction.

Her figurative paintings are drawn from her own fictitious set of characters and allude to traditions of European portraiture.

Lynette Yiadom - Boakye «s figurative paintings are drawn from her own fictitious set of characters and allude to traditions of European portraiture.

Kathy Halbreich, director of Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, writes about the range of influences he absorbed: «From his early drawings rooted in a European Surrealist tradition to his monumental abstract canvases, Motherwell's visual language synthesizes a veritable history of modern painting, reflecting ties to Picasso's early collages, Matisse's color - rich paintings, and the development of American Abstract Expressionism in which he played such a pivotal role».

The second section of the exhibition, «To Learn is To Create,» showcases earlier works made between 1945 and 1954, a period in which Zao tapped diverse visual traditions and methods, ranging from European painters such as Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, and Paul Klee, to ancient Chinese bronze inscriptions, rubbings from Han - dynasty tomb decorations, and Tang - and Song - dynasty landscape paintings.

He has been credited with founding the tradition of European landscape painting.