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Western art historical references, while highlighting shifting notions of gender and class within the context of the struggle between modernity and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.