Sentences with phrase «western landscape traditions»

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Meanwhile, it lets in enough light to recall Western or Chinese landscape traditions.

Working in parallel to Western pictorial traditions of landscape, Clare uses precise combination artist - made and collected sculptural objects, photographic images, event and documentation as vehicles to re-access, re-experience, re-stage, identify, imagine.

As the premier showcase for Western contemporary art, the Ann Korologos Gallery proudly offers a wide array of Western artists working in a variety of techniques and representing diverse artistic traditions: Bold Post-Expressionist still lifes by Angus Wilson, delicate realism in the style of Chardin by Sarah Lamb, Plein Air landscapes by Dan Young, cutting - edge Macro Photography by Gayle Waterman and meticulous linocut prints by Sherrie York.

In terms of subject, not style, Doig's work can be positioned within two traditions - that of Western landscape painting with heroic, moody representations of nature; and Impressionism with depictions of daily life, scenes previously thought irrelevant or inconsequential but which serve as the true basis for human interaction.

Pollock's impression of vast herds thundering over the western plains electrifies Mural, separating it from a European tradition of landscape painting.

Taking on the artistic traditions of Western nineteenth century painting, Monkman's appropriations of «New World» painting are meticulous recreations of large - scale, sublime landscapes.

Introduced in the Middle East by colonial occupiers in the mid-19th century, photography was, at first, dominated by Western practitioners who focused primarily on antiquities, regional landscape, and exotic traditions.

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.

Chen's installations are poetical landscapes, unusual material alliances, hybrids that open up passages and new connecting paths between Far Eastern traditions and Western avant - garde movements.

Here you will find landscapes with their roots in both western and eastern artistic traditions; as well as photography and contemporary art.

In contrast to the horizontal compositions that define the landscape tradition in Western art, Newman's work reflects the upright posture of the human body.

Her subdued colors and frequent changes in perspective, with their suggested landscape elements and gestures reminiscent of calligraphy, create a balance between Western and East Asian painting traditions without one outweighing the other.

In Untitled (1958), Chu Teh - Chun conflates the Chinese landscape painting tradition with the free spirit of Art Informel and Western abstraction; while in Bangkok III (2013), Andreas Gursky depicts the Chao Phraya as a dark, reflective flow, conjuring a lineage of painterly depictions of water, from the cascading riverbanks of Song dynasty landscape paintings to Claude Monet's Nymphéas.

Portrait, landscape and still life defined painting in the Western tradition for hundreds of years before the upsurge of abstraction early in the 20th century.