Sentences with phrase «academic tradition of painting»

Steeped in the academic tradition of painting, Brown draws from the compositional structure, historical motifs, and virtuosic brushwork of master painters across a diverse range of genres.

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In 1949, just as the Abstract Expressionist movement was establishing itself as the up - and - coming force in New York, Pepi went to Rome for two years to study at the American Academy and immerse himself in the art historical tradition to which he pointedly related his painting, giving rise to later critical accounts of his work as «academic» at heart.

In the selected items on view, the developments of American artistic traditions can be traced through the early interests in portraiture, the rise in prominence of landscape painting in the 19th - century, the popularity of genre scenes, as well as the academic traditions of history and large - scale society paintings.

Founded in 1906 as a school for modern painting in defiance of the academic tradition, the Art Students League of Los Angeles was a crucial institution in the development of Southern California art.

So I decided to go 180 degrees in the other direction: I enrolled at «Hatahana» master class program in Tel Aviv, a very rigorous two years course of drawing and painting from the model, in a realistic and somewhat academic tradition.

Taking inspiration from the Philippine weaving and the Jewish folk traditions of her ancestors, along with traditional landscape painting techniques from her academic training, she interweaves image with refuse in order to reveal seamless yet textured transcultural contradictions.

She uses the visual language and inherited traditions of classical academic western painting, particularly the portrait and still life.

I write at such length and so warmly because Hoyland is a terrific artist and people don't seem to know what's authentic and what isn't right now or the difference between what's academic and what adds an authentic inch or two to a great tradition, as the American painter Morris Louis did with his translucent painted veils and neurasthenic draft of speed and movement, and as Hoyland's work, very differently, does now — only he goes much further.

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.

Since it's an academy that has been supported by both Andy Warhol and Prince Charles, and prides itself on both traditional methods, such as anatomy and indirect painting, and on contemporary discourse, I thought it would be compelling to take the long view and explore how and why the classical academic tradition has impacted the present state of figure - based art.»

In the mid»80s his conceptual and arte povera — related work provoked academic discussions about the tradition of painting and the nature of perception, discussions which his more

As well as this new «Irish» realism, other painters, like Maurice MacGonigal (1900 - 1979) and Sean O'Sullivan (1906 - 1964) belonged to a tradition of academic realism in both portrait art and landscape painting.

In response to the country's rapid Westernization, Nihonga emerged as the recognized academic school of painting connected to the rich traditions of Japanese art.

Taking inspiration from the Philippine weaving and Jewish folk traditions of her ancestors, along with traditional landscape painting techniques from her academic training, Hoffman interweaves image with refuse in order to reveal seamless yet textured transcultural contradictions.

Reacting against an American academic and aesthetic tradition that was subservient to European aesthetics, the members of The Eight established their own artistic society in the bustling neighbourhoods of New York and set out to create a native American painting.

In comparison, a similarly sized drawing, «Still Life (Bowl, Pitcher, and Jug)» (c. 1921), made while de Kooning was a student in the evening program at Rotterdam's Academie (where, by the way, no oil painting instruction was offered), is not only confirmation of de Kooning's abilities to fulfill the rigorous requirements of academic drawing (not to mention the stamina to work on something for what was likely a year), but also a powerful reminder that his respect for tradition would never waver.