Sentences with phrase «for symbolists»

For Romantics, form was where you search for art's essence; For Symbolists and Impressionists, it was its superior power to convey artist intention; For Abstract Expressionists, it was the raison d'être — for meaning in art, one should look no further than the form.

Organicists and symbolists do have in common a focus upon internal community, but for symbolists the task is a search among existing cultural data to discover the matrix of the community already existing, while organicists advocate a social process that develops a future community not now realized.

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This material suggests that Mukunda has an affinity for surreal and symbolist imagery — earlier we see the boys piled on the bed to watch Blue Velvet together — and make one wish that The Wolfpack had the temerity to unhitch itself from its literal - minded approach.

A picture that arrived concurrently with Clive Barker's «The Hellbound Heart» (the source material for Hellraiser), it's useful as a means by which Lovecraft's and Barker's fiction can be paired against one another as complementary halves of a symbolist, grue - soaked whole.

«Crazy one - legged captain goes a» whaling» doesn't sound like a concept that would hold its weight for the entire length of a dense symbolist tome.

For the month of June, artists in Gallery Underground were challenged to paint in the style of Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt.

Living for most of his life in France, Willumsen developed a powerfully personal style regarded alternately as symbolist or kitsch, which did not favor him at the time but seems mainstream in the 21st century.

She is an American symbolist who is sometimes mistaken for a realist.

He pursued an individual artistic approach and is remembered most for his large - scale symbolist paintings reflecting Victorian sensibilities and Hall of Fame portraits, capturing his distinguished contemporaries in Victorian society.

Best known for his merits as a symbolist in the 1890s, his late works have long been regarded as commonplace, self - ironic, and kitschy in his homeland, whereas his entire oeuvre has remained largely unknown to an international public.

McKinniss forges a symbolist vocabulary for contemporary figurative painting; he culls his source material primarily from online image searching, an intuitive process by which he reveals the relational network of his own media - saturated consciousness.

If painting in watercolour really is irredeemably minor, then how to account for the haunting visions of William Blake, the proto - modernist landscapes of JS Cotman, key symbolist work by Edward Burne - Jones, Paul Nash's hellish war paintings, Edward Burra's grotesqueries, not forgetting some of Tracey Emin's more affecting pieces?

Rendered in minimalist subdued tones, Star (for Patti Smith) honors the musician and writer whose musical and poetic output drew on the influences of The Velvet Underground and The Doors, along with French symbolist and Beat strains of introspective and sensual poetry.

Rejecting the non-objective materiality of abstraction, the Symbolists focused on dreams, visions, moods, spiritulaity, and feelings, mining landscape imagery for its infinite metaphorical possibilities.

Arnold Bocklin (1827 - 1901) Swiss symbolist painter best - known for this masterpiece.

Norval owns works by leading postwar artists, notably symbolist painter Alexis Preller and sculptor Edoardo Villa, and paid a princely sum for Bruce Campbell Smith's collection of mainly black artists active between the 1920s and 2005.

Ferdinand Hodler (1853 - 1918) Swiss symbolist, early expressionist; noted for The Night.

D'Arcy, Paul Noted for his unique symbolist painting.

Active in Britain as a portraitist, landscape artist, symbolist, and member of the Aesthetic movement, he is best known for his «arrangements», «harmonies» and «nocturnes».

It reveals what Lowry learned from the strange symbolist townscapes of his French born teacher Adolphe Valette and demonstrate important parallels with the painters of modern life Vincent van Gogh, Camille Pissarro, Georges Seurat and Maurice Utrillo, drawing upon these artists's continuous search for ways to depict the unlovely facts of the city's edges and the landscape made by industrialisation.