Sentences with phrase «western art historical tradition»

Chris Ofili's intricately constructed works, combining beadlike dots of paint, collaged images from popular media, and elephant dung, create a unique iconography that marries African artistic and ritual practices with Western art historical traditions and contemporary hip - hop culture.

Not exact matches

Other series by Zeng have combined art - historical traditions, often resulting in a kind of abstraction that marries Western and non-Western styles.

Fred Tomaselli (New York, NY) draws upon art historical sources and Eastern and Western decorative traditions to create works that explode with mesmerizing patterns through the layering of resin, pharmaceuticals, and organic materials.

Drawing upon art historical sources and Eastern and Western decorative traditions, Fred Tomaselli's works explode in mesmerizing patterns that appear to grow organically across his compositions.

Therefore, the artist's works are, on the one hand, evocative of the Western art historical canon, while on the other, they upend engrained traditions as they vividly investigate the grey area between so - called «objective» history and subjective memory.

Nara integrates elements of his Western education with historical traditions in Japanese art, crafting a distinct aesthetic and process.

Her imagery merges traditional nonfigurative Turkish art with Western art historical references, while highlighting shifting notions of gender and class within the context of the struggle between modernity and tradition.

By engaging with the traditions of painterly practice but normalising the almost exclusive presentation of black people within her work, Yiadom - Boakye's formal investigations of composition, structure and palette also raise questions of identity, visibility and representation, pointing to the dearth of such depictions in the Western art - historical canon.