Sentences with phrase «academic painting»

A group of independent painters deliberated whether they should conform their style to a norm in order to gain acceptance, and presumably prosperity, or whether they should continue to violate the rules of academic painting for their time, employing «impressionist» techniques which many in the public considered amateurish.

Abstract paintings emerged from the late 19th century and early 20th century modernist movements against traditional academic painting in Europe.

For Pratten, they are one and the same, and a singular style can not express both, so two methods are necessary, academic painting for documenting the surface qualities of the visible world.

By this time Henri had rejected traditional academic painting and Impressionism in favour of a raw, realistic, almost muddy style.

Where an early generation of artists had portrayed the romantic lure of the American Southwest during the nineteenth - century using European Academic painting traditions to represent the environment and inhabitants of the region as exotic, Modern artists took a very different approach.

It came after several years of erotic paintings, but it still comes as a shock compared to scenes, like his Stone Breakers, that so defined a break with academic painting and prefigured modern art.

These galleries highlight the important works from these collections and are organized into themes including 16th and 17th century religious art, 18th and 19th century Academic painting, 20th century American paintings and prints, and Contemporary art.

Fortunately, the Annual does not fuss unduly over academic painting, and at times a residual conservatism pays off handsomely.

Still, Yiadom - Boakye ends up with mostly academic painting in place of the ordinary or the universal.

Regardless, of what spurred Pratten's motivation, a deviation away from the exacting nature of academic painting started to infiltrate her artistic sensibilities.

Emerson Woelffer (1914 - 2003) studied academic painting at the Art Institute of Chicago, and immediately afterwards got a job as an easel painter for the Works Progress Administration.

Stella's industrial materials give new meaning to the word machine, once applied to large academic painting.

Shanghart showed academic paintings and drawings by Liu Xiaohui.

I post a lot academic painting too, which supports my fervent conviction that the important Salon art of the nineteenth century is VASTLY more interesting than almost anything done today — anything that we who toil in the contemporary art world are supposed to be interested in and perhaps really are.

The second part of the exhibition includes works by artists programmatically - following academic painting of the 19th century, and references to classical painting firmly tied to the Renaissance heritage.

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Lining the lower levels are academic paintings in the newly introduced technique of western oil painting — portraits, figure studies, landscapes, still lifes.

His ability to transform fervent indignation into comical absurdity is amply evident when he takes on masterworks of French academic painting, as he does in his recent exhibition, Peter Saul: Six Classics, at Mary Boone (November 7 — December 18, 2015).

Previously, he directed New York's Dahesh Museum of Art, which specialized in 19th - century European academic painting and sculpture; before that, he held senior posts at the Brooklyn Museum and Baltimore Museum of Art.

The Fifth Genre: Considering the Contemporary Still Life highlights the enduring relevance and resonance of the still life, the often undervalued genre of academic painting.

In a sly manifestation of this modus operandi, Como's «History of Painting» series (2006) looks at the canon of academic painting and takes away from it only the frames in which the paintings are housed.

In my persistence to use raw materials historically used in academic painting, to contrast modern paint with pigment — a kind of fanatical review on contemporary painting transpires, setting a stage for the current Miscommunication Paintings.

An exemplary way of showcasing Pratten's expert treatment of the academic painting aesthetic is through her watercolour painting «Dogmat» (2014).

The paintings made in this period were created with the use of photographic images, something that had previously been inconceivable to him and to academic painting, and it marked the pivotal breakthrough.

Lluís Barba was shortlisted in The Young Masters Art Prize, 2009 and as part of the on - going support of the prize he was invited to exhibit at The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, WC2 displaying works relating to the history of academic painting and the space of the salon (hosted by East Wing IX.

The motifs of such paintings could hardly be more clichéd; how many hundreds of academic paintings and tourist postcards were produced on the very same spot?

He rejected both the genteel tradition of academic painting and impressionism, and instead created unconventional urban realist subjects executed in a bold, painterly style.

The nudes may recall the sober brightness of Roman portraiture or the studied illusion of transience in academic painting.

The Fifth Genre takes its name from the five genres of academic painting: history, portraiture, genre painting, landscape, and still life.

This is the essence of academic painting....

They rejected the idealized nudes of academic painting, as well as the hypocritical confinement of the erotic to mythological subjects.

You're not meant to put glitter on works of grand manner, or academic painting, but she's happy to do that.

Academic Painting, with its references to the tools of European classical art, is particularly Chiricoesque.

Many of the degree - offering institutions do not offer intense training in classical realism and academic painting and drawing.

In conflating a momentous contemporary event with the genre of large - scale history painting, West flouted the conventions of academic painting and the work became one of the most celebrated paintings in Britain.

But he didn't have a real training in fine art and academic painting, so some of the big paintings are terrific objects, but lack art school formalism.

Instead of taking to academic painting he fell in love with Sue Weil, a fellow American art student, and studied with her at the famous Black Mountain College in North Carolina under the ex-Bauhaus master, Josef Albers.

His solo November 1985 exhibition at what is now the National Art Museum of China in Beijing exposed Chinese artists to non-traditional methods of art - making for the first time, inspiring them to experiment and work beyond the academic painting and sculpture techniques taught in China's state art academies.

As an art student in Paris, Dubuffet demonstrated a facility for academic painting.