Not exact matches
Designed to represent the
traditional form of Japanese ink painting Hitsuzendo < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitsuzendo >, which translates as «the way of the brush,» this Zen -
inspired art is consistent throughout the design, starting with the name Nobu.
Dubuffet (1901 — 1985) eschewed
traditional notions of beauty in
art in favor of what he perceived as more authentic
forms of expression,
inspired by graffiti, children's drawings, and the creations of psychiatric patients.
They disrupt the
traditional art historical notion of the female
form as a site of natural, transcendent beauty and instead
inspire a Freudian fear, as hulking totems of base desire.
The three - screen piece is
inspired by the operas Madame Mao started to commission in the mid-1960s during China's Cultural Revolution, which are themselves an interesting mash - up of
traditional Eurocentric
art forms and communist aesthetics.