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Newly mainstream (thanks largely to astute exhibitions at her Miami Institute of the in - depth Ella Fontanals - Cisneros collection, to generous loans and funding by former sister - in - law Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, and to the full commitment of the Perez Art Museum of Miami), Latin American artists such as Carmen Herrera and Julio Le Parc showed here front and centre, taking their rightful place in the western canon alongside Diego Rivera, Gabriel Orozco, Frida Kahlo and Wifredo Lam.

Modern artists rejected the Western canon in favour of tribal art, writes Simon Wilson, as he takes in shows in Vienna and Berlin.

His years - long mantra, that in order to push the Western canon of art history in a more diverse and representational...

The Western canon in art and literature is problematic because it ranks culture, or decides what's important and what isn't.

A wealth of postwar artists who worked at the margins of Euro - America, beyond the Western canon, are being rediscovered maiw now receiving their own...

Abandoning these Western values based in individualism and hierarchy, Gaines further described how his epiphany occurred when he turned away from the Western canon as a young man and began to investigate Muslim and Buddhist traditions of artistic practice, in which individual expression and emotional affect were secondary to systematic, mathematically derived formal investigations.

In this male - dominated Western canon, the accomplishments of women artists were often overshadowed by their male colleagues and undervalued.

OTHER ARTISTS REACHED FURTHER BACK into the Western canon.

Previous years have taught us that our collectors want to make fresh discoveries, often of artists working outside the western canon, and our London First and Emerge sections in particular will be the perfect place to unearth new talent.

The delay, the show's curators state in the superb exhibition catalog, «gave Marshall time to bring his project of infiltrating the Western canon of art, and its handmaiden the museum, with images of black people to a nearly complete state that includes almost all of painting's major categories: portraiture, history painting, genre scenes, landscapes, fetes galantes, and abstraction.»

At the same time they examined the position accorded the female nude in the western canon, and tried to establish why men and women were (and are) represented so differently.

The once ignored, artististic impulses of non-white artists in the Western canon have been given increasing credit for their contributions in shaping high and popular culture.

Let her evanescent canvases wash over you and you'll understand that this is an artist who has thought an awful lot about painting, imbuing her work with references to the history of the figure in the Western canon and enlivening her often - female protagonists with a riveting aura of self - awareness.

Makhacheva's film addresses the precarious future of art housed in war - torn areas, and the omission of Dagestani and other non-Western art from the Western canon.

Curated by Theresa Papanikolas, the exhibition offers a critical examination of mid-20th-century American abstraction and its East Asian influences, including East Asian and Pacific Islander practitioners that are often left out of the established Western canon.

This volume also publishes Stuart Hall's keynote address to the Tate Gallery's «Museums of Modern Art and the End of History» conference, in which he proposes the history of modernity and modernism to be a series of «cultural translations», rather than being firmly enshrined in the Western canon.

This exhibition serves as a continuation of the artist's 2015 solo exhibition at the Dallas Contemporary, in which Varejão looked to art history — both Native American as well as within the Western canon — for inspiration, producing a tableau that reinterprets the Eurocentric perspective of the New World.

Critically examining the Western canon through its most archetypal forms, he reworks the historic tableau, landscape, genre painting and portraiture, but also the muralist tradition and the comic book.

Thomas, born in 1971, is known for lush rhinestone - encrusted paintings that combine references to iconic artworks from the Western canon and 1970s» pop culture.

«The autonomy of kitsch comes from the disobedience of the Western canon, especially in areas like Latin America where it matters a damn.»

While producing within the «Western canon», they question the very mechanisms that construct this canon and ask for alternative realities and modernities.

However, their practice does not explicitly reveal itself as non-Western, yet they might function inside the Western canon.

In 1975 Birch moved to New York and began to develop the characteristic style for which he is most known; a breaking down of formal training to create deceptively simple flat narrative surfaces that draw as much from «primitive» and folk styles as from the Western canon.

At the same time, the cave retained a place for a Murakami-esque enshrinement of the object: it memorialized Lipomi's early works that themselves appropriate artworks from the 20th century Western canon.

The compositionally dense works play with the social and current realities of today, with an interest in ornamentation and surface, and draw on the legacy of history as told through the Western canon of painting and the applied arts.

A number of cast bronze sculptures that appropriate objects from outside of the Western canon will also be on view, including Gamelan Figures, Naga Effigy, and Little Dancer (all from 2017); as well as Monochromes after Van Gogh Sunflowers: 1 - 12 (2015) in which the artist makes use of pixelation to produce a series of monochromatic panels where the individual colors are derived from Van Gogh's iconic paintings.

Almost all the figures were black, which certainly is a reminder that the Western canon erased the presence and significance of people of color.

Critics have brought out the missing history of art by blacks, women, and other outsiders to the Western canon.

Rising from intern to associate curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Naim J. Keith has succeeded in her mission to secure a place for contemporary art of the African Diaspora within the Western canon.

Drawing on a broad spectrum of Indian painting traditions and popular arts, as well as the western canon, NS Harsha creates quietly philosophical, luminous works that reflect on geopolitical order and our ever - more technologically mediated relationship with the world.

Today, most painters who keep the practice current benefit from either appealing to mass media — as is the case with Kenny Scharf — or to reimagining the Western canon through alternative cultural narratives — as was the case with Basquiat.

Maintaining gestural painting's relevance in contemporary culture while also rooting its chief sources of inspiration from within the Western canon is a Herculean task, particularly as the very practice of painting as a discipline continues to erode within the art market, art schools, and public art institutions like museums.

Lüpertz's stubborn attachment to the classical narratives of the Western canon in the teeth of cultural trends that have little use for it is cause for admiration.

Daniela Comani will present 16 pieces from her New Publications series — appropriated book cover images from the Western Canon with their titular gender assignments reversed.

The Western canon is chewed up and spat out, transformed.

Together with curators, librarians, and archivists, she works on broadening the scope of museum's collections, exhibitions and education programs beyond the western canon as a part of MoMA's research initiative C - MAP (Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives in a Global Age).

2 From the beginning of her career in the early 1990s, she has busily mined the Western canon, from the kinetic nudes and tumbling skies of the Italian Renaissance to the teeming beaches of Reginald Marsh and Picasso's eroticized women.

How strange it can seem to us that chilly, theocratic Philip II of Spain should have been responsible for commissioning some of the most erotically charged paintings in the western canon.

Quisqueya Henriquez explores the history of art itself, looking back along the past century of artistic production where she pieces together familiar references from along, and beyond, the Western canon.

Take a moment to think about art history, the traditional landscape, religious and patron portraiture, the still life, and the Odalisque; these elements all comprise the Western canon of art.

Unlike Wiley's earlier portraits wherein sitters» poses correspond to artworks from the Western canon, the

At its essence, the whole corpus of Nicola Samorì's work is a profound meditation on time and the fragility of existence: His earliest works appeared to be paintings of X-rays of individuals as if seen in a morgue — e.g. Der Neid, 2005; other works were constructed as if assembled from archeological remnants — e.g. Siliqua, 2007; and more recently, Samorì has turned his attention to re-examining famous artworks from the Western canon, notably the paintings of Spanish seventeenth century master Jusepe Ribera.

It is high time for Tarsila, as she is affectionately known in Brazil, to claim her rightful place in the fast - evolving western canon.

Kerry James Marshall's exuberant works depict black figures in everyday situations, in order to subvert stereotypes and challenge the predominately white Western canon.

Lubaina Himid's career as an artist, curator and scholar has been central to rethinking the Western canon of art history and museological practices over the past 30 years.

In the painting Moderne Kunst, 1968, Polke lampooned an entire subset of western canon: art history.

We enlisted Andrea Rose to curate the booth, and to highlight Kossoff's talent for transforming some of the most singular images in the Western canon in his own style.

His years - long mantra, that in order to push the Western canon of art history in a more diverse and representational direction images of black people and the black experience should hang in museums alongside the so - called «masters,» dovetailed with a promising moment for a select group of African American modern and contemporary artists.

Marshall has long said that he paints unapologetically black figures using black paint in order to push the Western canon of art history in a more diverse and representational direction.