Sentences with phrase «aesthetic tradition»

Many of the artists adapt indigenous aesthetic traditions to contemporary circumstances, and they often blend representation and abstraction.

It initially looks at the ways early filmmakers employed 19th - century aesthetic traditions — from landscape to portraiture — to develop this new art form.

Therefore, artists borrowed heavily from British aesthetic traditions, particularly a mode of depiction known as the picturesque.

-- Ajay Kurian from The Ballet of White Victimhood: On Jordan Wolfson, Petroushka, and Donald Trump empowering and unapologetic representations of Latin @x culture informed by the feminist and decolonial aesthetic traditions of the Americas

Exhibition Examines Merging of Eastern and Western Aesthetic Traditions in Contemporary Art Practice

Named after Robert Farris Thompson's landmark 1984 book - which elaborated the lasting influence of ancient West African aesthetic traditions on contemporary diasporic communities - this exhibition champions the history and mythology of the ancient West African Kingdoms.

At once emphatically abstract and culturally specific, it draws on the subtle, unassuming beauty of Korean aesthetic traditions and folk art.

Jaune Quick - to - See Smith is one of the most creative American Indian artists whose work explores Native American aesthetic traditions in a modern and post-modern art context.

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.

According to the museum, «Anatsui converts found materials into a new type of media that lies between sculpture and painting, combining aesthetic traditions from his birth country, Ghana; his home in Nsukka, Nigeria; and the global history of abstraction.»

Anatsui converts found materials into a new type of media that lies between sculpture and painting, combining aesthetic traditions from his birth country, Ghana; his home in Nsukka, Nigeria; and the global history of abstraction.

The series seems to contain the kernels of multiple aesthetic traditions within feminist art: Wonder Woman and Kali join forces within the repeating, serial structure of Conceptual art.

With these factors of origin, evolution, and technology as a starting point, my work asks the question: «what would photography look like if it had grown out of a different aesthetic tradition?

Instead, they are evoking earlier aesthetic traditions.

This episode features artists who synthesize disparate aesthetic traditions, present taboo subject matter, discover innovative uses of media, and explore the shape - shifting potential of the human figure.

Major topics addressed include «urban migration within the United States to globalization, to Négritude and cultural hybridity, to the modern black artist's relationship with European aesthetic traditions and experimentation with new technologies and media.»

Ruya has observed that a great number of artists working in Iraq today continue to abide by an orthodox aesthetic tradition that has been limited by mid-century education trends and the lack of cultural exchange in Iraq in recent decades.

Concerned with the resolution of opposing elements — materially, formally and culturally — Dhanjal's work draws heavily on his experience of Indian aesthetic traditions, blending them with the influence of European and specifically British modernist sculpture.

Drawing from the histories of the Civil Rights and Black Resistance movements, Black aesthetic tradition, and the historical avant - garde, Becoming Imperceptible invites you to reimagine both our history and future and opens up a rigorous conversation about system and form in the European, African, and American avant - gardes of the last century.

Villar's work draws from multidisciplinary theoretical sources including the works of Foucault and de Certeau, and is foregrounded by aesthetic traditions ranging from the sixties and seventies performative - based sculpture and installations by Helio Oiticica, Lygia Clark and Cildo Meirelles to the urban strategies of the Situationists and the anarchitecture of Gordon Matta - Clark.

«Ephemeral and monumental, the work of Cai Guo - Qiang is founded upon an ancient religious and philosophical aesthetic tradition.

Interested in the repetition and balance of grids, Tabatabai's work plays homage to the structural beauty of geometry, which is deeply rooted in Islamic aesthetic traditions — no doubt an influence for the artist who was born in Iran.

In his imagined mythologies, Adeniyi - Jones both explores and gives new meaning to West African aesthetic traditions.

At once emphatically abstract and culturally specific, the work of Seung - taek Lee (born 1932) draws on the subtle beauty of Korean aesthetic traditions and folk art, also reflecting contemporaneous developments in earth art, Mono - ha and postminimalism — while maintaining resolute independence from its peer groups.

He shares with the quiltmakers of Gee's Bend a debt to African American aesthetic traditions, most notably the cemetery constructions and yard art of the rural South, as well as an inventive approach to the reconstruction of found materials in the creation of an extraordinary visual poetry.

Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui Bass Museum of Art, Miami April 11 to Aug. 10, 2014 Born in Ghana, El Anatsui lives in Nigeria where drawing on the cultural and aesthetic traditions of his origins, he creates textile - like wall and floor sculptures composed of found metals.

But the only chance for the aesthetic tradition lies in its dialectical supersession.

Tomas Tranströmer was born in 1931 in Stockholm where he grew up but spent many long summers on the island of Runmarö in the nearby archipelago, evoking that landscape in his early work, which draws on the aesthetic tradition of Swedish nature poetry.

finds commonalities between these artists based solely on their heritage, raising questions as to whether there truly is some sort of collective, cultural consciousness or aesthetic tradition,» explains Beers London.

The exhibition, which takes its name from Robert Farris Thompson's book exploring the lasting influence of West African aesthetic traditions on contemporary diasporic communities, investigates and gives new meaning to West African aesthetic traditions.

Drawing on the aesthetic traditions of surrealism, Pop, and minimalism, Fritsch has created something entirely new.

Concurrently, 6 Artists / 6 Projects (February 10 — August 29, 2015) presents new works by some of today's leading contemporary artists in Israel, whose practice resonates in counterpoint with the aesthetic traditions that accompanied the opening of the Museum 50 years earlier.

«The Souls Grown Deep Foundation is a remarkable organization, committed to artists whose practices illuminate an important perspective on American culture and represent an aesthetic tradition that has been deeply influential to contemporary American artists,» said Anderson.

Invoking past and future in a critique of the present, these paintings, photographs, sculptures, videos, and other works document observed, current realities while referencing the aesthetic traditions of 19th - and 20th - century art.

In her large - scale works on paper art historical, political and personal references are combined to make luminous, densely layered figurative compositions whose intricate surfaces are a marriage of disparate materials and aesthetic traditions.

Adapting the aesthetic tradition of oil painting, the pieces are printed on canvases.

Lawrence adopted his characteristic simple forms and abstract elements from African art, linking that aesthetic tradition to present - day black identity.

Why: This exhibition is an homage to Arabic and Andalusian art and aesthetic traditions.

Webster's paintings depict post-industrial landscapes drawing on the aesthetic traditions of minimalism and realism.

As such, we place value on critical inquiry with ideas and aesthetic traditions.

A reference to magic carpet narratives as well as the blankets that Illegal street vendors use to quickly pack and transport their wares to safety, Flying Carpets perfectly fulfills the show's curatorial desire to link the symbolic significance of pattern with its aesthetic tradition.

In these drawings, one can grasp the elements of abstraction that are achieved by gradually distancing and varying from an aesthetic tradition or a formal canon.

The museum says this is the first exhibition ever to focus on the car as art object and stylistic creation: It reflects «an aesthetic tradition according to which the beauty of line vies with mechanical ingenuity.»

Artist Richard Tuttle pays homage to American art giants Jackson Pollock and Louis Comfort Tiffany, placing his work in an aesthetic tradition that spans abstraction and craft, expressionism and pragmatism.

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.

They draw from a variety of aesthetic traditions, ranging from decorative art and design to advertising and folk art.

The Los Angeles - based artist, who relocated from Nigeria to the United States at the age of 16, draws on art historical, political and personal references to make luminous, densely layered figurative compositions whose intricate surfaces combine disparate materials and aesthetic traditions.