Sentences with phrase «modernist traditions of»

Best known for his assemblage sculptures made from stuffed children's toys, often set upon the «stage» of a homemade Afghan rug, Kelley draws upon the Modernist traditions of the found object and collage in his colourful, irreverent sculptures.

In «Brainwaves and Archetypes, The Sculpture of Strong - Cuevas,» Donald Kuspit posits Stong - Cuevas» sculptures as «cosmically open and epic in scale or hermetically enclosed and intimate in scale, whether constructions or cast in bronze, whether involving single or multiple heads, fuse the modernist traditions of primitivist expression and pure abstraction, confirming their originality by reconciling the opposites.

Known for his handcrafted sculptural installations of crochet, tulle, spices and stones, Neto's renowned art - making practice draws from a wide variety of sources, from Modernist traditions of biomorphic abstraction, through Arte Povera and American Minimalism, to the legacies of Brazilian neo concrete, conceptual and Tropilcália movements.

In both the «Gray Paintings (Loxodonta)» and the «Organ Pipes», the materiality of the objects open up to suggest a vast scope of cultural production — the elemental tin transformed into the majestic pipe organ, an achievement of pre-industrial design on par with horology; the «Gray Paintings (Loxodonta)» echoing the stone surface of prehistoric cave paintings and also the modernist tradition of the monochrome.

Copied by a young Giorgio de Chirico, and claimed ironically perhaps, by Marcel Duchamp as his favorite painter, Böcklin is part of a well - worn, if less traveled, «other» modernist tradition of which Lüpertz is definitely part.

His work makes references to the late modernist tradition of the New York abstract expressionists, yet stand out as the products of a contemporary struggle, pointing at the grey blocks of paint covering up graffitied walls of Istanbul, metaphorically paralleling the country's everlasting attempt of covering up creative progress of free direction.

«4 Stylistically, Pettibon's fluid quoting and intuitive collaging of images, phrases, and themes places him squarely in the Modernist tradition of Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Kurt Schwitters, and Robert Rauschenberg.

Incorporating many of the ideas set forth in his paintings and drawings, his prints form an extraordinary compendium of a career spent investigating the modernist tradition of the power of color and contemporary abstraction.

Atria's work connects with the modernist tradition of geometric abstraction, but with the express intent to relate it to specific visual situations encountered in the world.

The Fort Wayne Museum, IN, exhibition and catalog of over 50 of her paintings clearly demonstrates that Thomas's work is firmly rooted in the modernist tradition of abstractionAwith emphasis on vibrant colors generating geometric forms set in dynamic compositions.

In the classic Modernist tradition of collage he cuts up found images, favouring that most despised of formats the VHS cassette which he buys, ten for a pound in charity shops, integrating them with his own video footage.

An abstract painter who has been an active member of the New York art scene since the early 1980s, James Walsh follows in the modernist tradition of Pollock in using art to reveal its own properties.

The first floor is dedicated to Gabriel Orozco's new stone sculptures that stand in the modernist tradition of European sculpture such as Hans Arp, Constantin Brancusi, and Barbara Hepworth and at the same time express the engagement with indigenous cultures.

7 20257 Hamburg, Germany Rupert Eder pursues the Modernist tradition of reductive and non-referential painting — an art form that focuses on the essence of its medium.

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McCourt's own public statements, and the initial critical reception of the book, seemed to place it firmly within the tradition of Irish modernist anti-Catholicism.

Flat, blank facades on buildings conceived as commodities — or just oddities — rather than works of civic art; flat modernist pictorial abstractions; the flattening of cultural history into pseudo-history packaged as what Henry dismissed as «applied sociology» — all spoke to him of something far more ominous, the abasement of man and the crude negation of his proper relationship to nature as embodied in the great tradition.

The nonreligious or antireligious social analysis assumed by Indian «modernists» at least since Nehru failed to recognize the continuing power of ancient traditions and faiths.

Second, we subdivided the three largest traditions (white evangelicals, mainliners, and Catholics) into «modernist» and «traditionalist» categories, using combinations of beliefs, behaviors, and belonging peculiar to each tradition.

The modernist / traditionalist distinction was not applied to some religious traditions because of the small number of respondents (Jews) and to others because the division revealed no political differences (black Protestants).

This enabled Europeans to justify imperial expansion in both religious and secular terms: for Christians, European imperialism saved souls, and for modernists, it brought progress into a world of backwardness and tradition.2

Rubinstein writes: «Chia, Cucchi, Clemente, Mariani, Baselitz, Lüpertz, Middendorf, Fetting, Penck, Kiefer, Schnabel... these and other artists are engaged not (as is frequently claimed by critics who find mirrored in this art their own frustration with the radical art of the present) in the recovery and reinvestment of tradition, but rather in declaring its bankruptcy — specifically, the bankruptcy of the modernist tradition.

New York's older modernist tradition resounds in uncertain repetition with a much more contemporary set of concerns.

In his oeuvre, he combines the traditions of European modernist painting with influences from American postwar art.

Essential to Montgomery's work is the tradition of modernist Concrete Poetry, where the visual elements of words are as important in conveying the intended effect as the conventional elements of the poem, such as meaning of words, rhythm, rhyme, etc..

The finished artwork questions the position of personal and social memory, in relation to the tradition of socialist, modernist architecture.

Some of the most interesting living artists («living» as opposed to «contemporary» here; Memling's dead, but he's still the competition) channel traditions and currents that, while not altogether outside of the modernist purview, are nonetheless — how to put it?

The exhibition title is a play on two simultaneous traditions: the modernist charge to flatten illusionistic space and the «flat top» hair cut popularized during the Def Jam era of hip hop.

Repeating a 1970s - era tradition of feminist exhibition - making — one that is as entangled in debate as the long modernist tradition and its claims, critiques, and counterclaims about the studio — «Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 — 2016» assembles thirty - four artists who were in each case selected for their work, but were also selected for being artists who are women.

Rebecca Warren's composition of striding high - heeled legs without a torso is raised on plinths, commenting on the traditions of modernist bronze sculpture (as yet untitled (Croccioni bronze), 2009).

Autobiographical in the modernist and realist painting tradition, his paintings depict his own personal effects that include biker paraphernalia such as jackets, boots, helmets and gloves, alongside his packets of cigarettes and books.

Scully is a great artist because, constructing a great variety of two and three - dimensional works from a narrowly restricted choice of forms and media, he shows, in opposition to almost all other contemporary painters and sculptors and, also, to most art writers, that there is life, still, in this now seemingly distant modernist tradition.

The forms that come from the Mesoamerican tradition encounter the Modernist Geometric Abstraction through the eyes of a visiting ex-Bauhaus professor.

Lambri's carefully composed and thought - out works evoke art - historical traditions of minimalism and abstract painting, and therefore, her images often display Modernist ideals of framing, abstraction, and transcendence.

The likes of Bob Dylan, Serge Gainsbourg and the Rolling Stones combined popular musical traditions with Modernist verse, adopting literary devices derived from James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, James Thurber, T. S. Eliot, Guillaume Apollinaire, Allen Ginsberg, and others.

Her work is a mixture of abstract and figurative in the Modernist tradition, with influence from African and Mexican art traditions.

An example of how Modernist art can be both revolutionary and yet be related to past tradition, is the music of the composer Arnold Schoenberg.

And what do those modernist ideas in the first place amount to but a surprise reanimation, through abstraction and dissociation, of visual traditions?

«7 While the challenge of classicism may be to fit feeling into pre-existing forms, Hodgkin, as a Modernist working in the classical tradition, goes one step further.

Farmer is best known for his work with collage and his references to the genre's modernist traditions, such as those produced by Dada artists at the beginning of the 20th century.

Local artist, Tammi Campbell's practice engages with the traditions of Modernist and Minimalist painting.

Pippin, who took up painting after losing the use of his right arm (he was shot in the shoulder during active service in the First World War) trod a line between modernist and folk art traditions: «The painting will serve as a bridge within the broader American collection to reveal complex and often - overlooked relationships between styles and practices», M. Melissa Wolfe, the museum's curator of American art, explained.

By not painting from life, Doig and most mid-career painters of the late 20th and 21st century have, it seems to me, a fundamentally different relationship with modernist painterly tradition from the generation above them — Freud, Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, even David Hockney.

Brooklyn - based artist Arthur Simms (b. 1961) fuses modernist assemblage with folk traditions of African and Afro - Atlantic object - making in his near - abstract sculptures.

Parallel to this great modernist tradition there is also an explicitly Brazilian conceptual art that was less dogmatic and structuralist than its counterparts in Europe and North America, but more open, more poetic and more politically engaged, as we can see in the works of Cildo Meireles.

«Carroll Dunham's recent paintings are a dark comment on the tradition of the idyll, which goes back a long way in painting, and includes such modernist highpoints as Paul Gauguin's The Seed of the Areoi (1892) and Henri Matisse's Luxe, Calme et Volupte (1904) and Joy of Life (1906).»

In parallel with this great modernist tradition is also an explicit Brazilian conceptual art that was less dogmatic and structuralist than their counterparts in Europe and North America, but more open, more poetic, more politically engaged, as we can see in the works of Cildo Meireles and Vik Muniz.

Unlike the black - and - white formats of the ink portraits of the 1960s, the large paintings revisit traditions of modernist painting such as the checkerboard works of Piet Mondrian and the Alphabet paintings of Jasper Johns while depicting everyday speech in a variety of color palettes.

They see this as the Modernist Mainstream, a continuous, self - aware, «tradition of the new», which began with Pollock and has been unfolding over the last 60 years.

But this conjunction of American experience and Parisian modernism is itself the tradition that has so often produced the best American modernist art in this century.

That would all be fine if they were used to add something, but it reads like a formal exercise, toying with abstraction in a long tradition of early Modernists or folk painters.