Sentences with phrase «western painting traditions»

Characterized by its emphasis on the monochrome, its refined approach to materiality and its philosophical interest in the relationship between the artist's consciousness and the act of making, Dansaekwha borrowed materials, techniques and motifs from both Eastern and Western painting traditions.

Thomas's bodies begin as substrata, canvases to a libidinal urge reminiscent of depictions of the Other in early photography and pornography (and, in turn, historical photographs» mimicry of Western painting traditions).

Whatever You Want features a black female protagonist in a pose referencing the portrayal of white female nudes in the Western painting tradition.

Phokela copies Old Masters, such as Rubens, Breughel or Jordaens changing in the process gender or racial attributes in order to question the stereotypes of Western painting tradition.

Widely regarded as the last great pure painter of the Western painting tradition, Willem de Kooning towered over the late 20th century as only Pablo Picasso dominated its first half.

The 25 monumental paintings on view challenge a Western painting tradition that historically erases or misrepresents people of color, offering narratives centered on Black experiences and perspectives.

This exhibition, Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas, will be bringing together for the first time three leading American artists from three different generations whose work challenges a Western painting tradition that historically erases or misrepresents people of color..

His large - scale figurative paintings are equally as grand, ornate, and rich in symbolism as traditional portraiture; however, Wiley subverts the canon by depicting male protagonists of African descent, a demographic that has been virtually omitted from the Western painting tradition throughout the centuries.

Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas brings together three generations of contemporary American artists, whose work challenges a Western painting tradition that underrepresents people of color.

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The library's collection focuses on 4th - 20th Western traditions and includes info about paintings, prints, sculptures, illuminated manuscripts and drawings.

Mugar writes: «There is an analogy here to Stella and his relationship to the long optical tradition of western painting.

Located in Trafalgar Square, London, The National Gallery houses the national collection of paintings in the Western European tradition from the 13th to the 19th centuries.

In this new series of paintings, he draws on Indian and Western European traditions to create a hybrid visual language with which to relate intimate tales of sensual and spiritual encounter.

SATTERWHITE: I had roadblock with painting because of the Western tradition.

As a result, the full - flung poetic beauty of these recent paintings shows that the artist is continuing to advance upon her achievements, deftly alluding to both Western and Chinese sources without succumbing to either tradition.

As he told the MoMA curator William Rubin in 1969: «My main interest has been to make what is popularly called decorative painting» — decorative being the ultimate insult in western modernism, though no bad thing in other traditions — «truly viable in unequivocal abstract terms».

But because traditional Chinese painting has long been poised between figuration and abstraction, many 20th - century Chinese artists have hesitated to embrace this Western tradition.

His gargantuan semi-abstract paintings of fruit and flowers are credited with merging process art with the still life tradition of Western painting.

The bindi becomes a language or code we begin to read through works that elicit formal connections with abstract expressionism, op art, and geometric abstraction from Western painting and the tantric and neo-tantric traditions of India.

Qin Feng's dynamic brush and ink paintings represent a sophisticated amalgamation of Eastern and Western artistic traditions, philosophy and representation.

S.D. Everybody, I think I'm very much aware of the tradition of western painting and my place in it.

Marked a conflict with the art of painting and especially the expressive tradition, revolted against all Western Art, which was dominated by the School of Vision.

For centuries, Western art traditions have been centred on creating tangible and physical objects such as paintings, architecture and sculpture.

Af Klint is now finally credited with making the first non-objective painting in the Western fine - art tradition, and it is both her grand imagination and sense of purpose, and the idea of how histories are and can be constantly re-written, that has informed and inspired McElheny's new works.

More importantly — and more in Mr. Kim's» case than with many other artists overtly wrestling with multiple traditions — Mr. Kim's success lies in his assimilation of both eastern and western traditions, his acknowledgement of being influenced by and unavoidably immersed in several cultures, and his ability to forge his experience into successful paintings which are singularly his own.

Kerry James Marshall's major monographic retrospective presents a broad range of pictorial traditions to counter stereotypical representations of black people in society and reassert the black figure within the canon of Western painting.

Drawing upon Rembrandt's The Slaughtered Ox (1638) and Francis Bacon's meat paintings, Huan juxtaposes human and animal flesh alongside Chinese calligraphy, thus bringing together eastern and western traditions.

Motifs from Western and Eastern pictorial traditions are regularly referenced in his works, and we often find visual references to Medieval and Renaissance paintings.

Turning Western tradition on its head by splattering and dripping paint onto canvases laid flat on the studio floor, Pollock's artwork favoured process over subject matter.

You said some really interesting things about the marble paintings, about Greece and how you are working in a sort of rediscovery of that Western tradition.

GATES OF THE LORD: THE TRADITION OF KRISHNA PAINTING About 70 objects relating to pichwais, paintings portraying a distinct form of the Hindu god Krishna, and which originated in Western India, are on view.

The wide array of sources that underlie her large - scale forms include Biblical and mythological narratives, Arab oral traditions, Gothic architecture, Western painting, Islamic ornamentation, and scientific advances in physics and astronomy.

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.

Amir H. Fallah's paintings combine the portraits of Western tradition with decorative elements of Iranian and Islamic art.

«Matino... paints within the western abstract tradition, using color and the physical act of painting with a spirituality akin to the aesthetics of Eastern civilization.»

Now he was finding his way to synthesis of Eastern and Western traditions, a development with parallels in the austerely gestural paintings of fellow Abstract Expressionists Franz Kline and Robert Motherwell.

In this regard, it seemed important to show a work emblematic of the artist's oeuvre in painting, which is the privileged medium of Western tradition.

While the work brings to mind monochromatic painting and the symbolic meaning of yellow in the western tradition — light, warmth, and luxury — it also questions our conventional understanding of art because it is a work that can be executed by anyone, anywhere.

In MacConnel's well documented trip to Western and sub-Saharan Africa in 1989, he speaks of how he went «in search of Picasso's ghost;» meaning he researched the African tribal masks and traditions that Picasso incorporated in his own tribal art and cubist paintings like Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

Drawing on a broad spectrum of Indian painting traditions, miniature painting, popular art and western art, he creates works that reflect on the modern world.

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.

In the 1970s, Bayrle's painting coexisted with music by groups like Kraftwerk and Can, who through focused sonic repetition referred to the structures of the postmodern world (highways, computers) while resisting western music traditions.

The continuing tradition of monochrome (one colour) painting in western art began in the early 20th century.

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

Equally, Neel was unflinching in her depiction of the female body, often in states of awkwardness and unease, as seen in the painting Childbirth, 1939, and assured of her own freedom as an artist, challenging a Western tradition that regarded a woman's proper place in the arts as sitter or muse.

The patterning that composes each image is sourced from both Eastern and Western aesthetic traditions: Paleolithic and Neo-Paleolithic fetish objects, West African ceremonial masks, Greek Icon painting, Italian and Northern Renaissance altarpieces, Jewish ceremonial textiles such as Tallit and Torah arks, Islamic prayer rugs, alchemical diagrams and geometric references to mathematical equations.

Yangyang Pan's paintings, far more layered than those of the past, are a true fusion of Eastern and Western traditions.

A link between Eastern and Western sensibilities, her works are successful for the subtle way she changes ab - ex tradition, and is emblematic of painting in the 21st century.

One of the most significant Indian artists of his generation, Harsha draws on a broad spectrum of Indian artistic and figurative painting traditions and popular arts as well as the western art canon.

For his second solo show COME OUT 2 SHOW THEM at Lichtundfire in the Lower East Side, New York - based artist Christopher Stout created a series of abstract minimalist paintings informed by the traditions of Western Reductivistism and the Japanese philosophy of wabi - sabi.