Sentences with phrase «western tradition of abstraction»

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

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.

Judges also noted that, «with its demonstrable connection to country, the quietly mesmerising work could also be interpreted through the Western tradition of minimalist abstraction».

After experimenting with Western abstraction, Park began to explore a more introspective methodology that had its origins in Taoist and Buddhist philosophy and also in the Korean tradition of calligraphy.

And this should happen at the end of the 20th century because today, abstract artists are not pioneers anymore: abstraction belongs to one Western tradition.

But there's no disagreement that the invention of Western abstraction revolutionized art production in the 20th century, nor that it was predated by centuries of abstracted forms and patterns in non-Western traditions.

It enriches the abstract tradition in Western art with fresh political and spiritual content, and deepens our understanding of the background of major trends in recent African American art, from the material - loving, politically conscious abstractions of Mark Bradford to the politically and spiritually charged sculptures of Betye Saar and Vanessa German.

The Inaugural Exhibition of this gallery of Middle Eastern art is devoted to a painter who seamlessly fuses Iranian traditions of miniatures and calligraphy with the dynamic strokes and textured surfaces of western abstraction.

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.