Sentences with phrase «art historical tradition»

The depiction of meat has a long art historical tradition.

In response, we constructed and photographed sets illustrating this contradiction, taking inspiration from art historical traditions of 19th century sublime landscape painting and pop culture apocalyptic film.

While marble or bronze sculptures have held a more elevated place in art historical tradition, wooden sculptures, because of its poverty of materials, tend to be associated more with its devotional function and the communities it serves and from which it stems.

The artists work with impressions from contemporary culture such as cartoon series and graffiti, yet when doing so, also engage with art historical traditions such as Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Neorealism, Pop Art or 1960s Performance Art.

As in much of Friedman's practice, which culls from art historical tradition with an intent to subvert, the work combines an investigation of low - brow materials — in this case, baking tins — with massive scale and the permanence of steel.

This also fits with the Western art historical tradition of marginalizing, ignoring, and dismissing women artists within Chinese art history.

«Julie Heffernan draws from a rich art historical tradition of still lifes, landscapes, and portraiture to create her lush canvases.

While still firmly engaged within art historical tradition, Faulk's work ultimately showcases a pride in creating something from nothing that is decidedly, and unabashedly, southern.

According to the gallery, «The Girl» encapsulates Op de Beeck's uncanny ability to create visual fictions of wonder, silence and introspection, while referencing art historical traditions of the panorama, landscape painting and German - Romantic notions of melancholy and the sublime.

Raw and fired clay, plywood, metal studs, paint, and canvas are celebrated for their inherent materiality while being transformed into works that extend several art historical traditions including Suprematism, Constructivism, Minimalism, and Arte Povera.

Stettheimer spent a significant period of her early life in Europe, and incorporated European art historical traditions into her early work before abandoning them upon her return to New York.

Anthony Merino details the necessary overhaul of art historical traditions predicated on prejudice and exclusion.

Experimenting with cyanotype and platinum palladium prints made on traditional gold and platinum leaf, her work reflects the interplay between art historical traditions and the more modern tradition of photography, firmly anchoring Lucretia in both realms.

The visual language of sport hunting over the course of history informs much of the work; incongruities exist within existing art historical traditions, and too, manifest in the reconfiguring of forms and tradition that plays a role in Crombach's practice.

Nicholas Crombach in his solo exhibition «Behind Elegantly Carved Wooden Doors» has mined art historical tradition, assembling a body of work rich in citation.

Shonibare matches the staggering, opulent beauty of his art with erudition and wit: exploring identity and authenticity, he taps art historical tradition and intellectual history in sly, provocative works that examine class, race, gender, and colonialism.

In both his paintings and painted collages, Kushner unites art historical tradition with modernism and aesthetic pleasure with intellectual rigor.

An accomplished figurative painter, Felice «strives, through her portraits of women, to provide a counterpoint to the passive representations found in art historical tradition.

As the title suggests, Silva works within the long art historical tradition of setting up one's canvas outside and making work based on and inspired by nature — except for Silva, there's a twist: he does it in 3 - D, using his laptop as the canvas on which to create images and animations in response to the environment.

Chris Ofili's intricately constructed works, combining beadlike dots of paint, collaged images from popular media, and elephant dung, create a unique iconography that marries African artistic and ritual practices with Western art historical traditions and contemporary hip - hop culture.

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.

Unexpected Encounter was conceived as an effort to alter that perspective by highlighting a genre rooted in centuries of art historical tradition that appears intermittently throughout the archive.

BAL: What is your relationship to the art historical tradition of Land Art?

Monumental yet vulnerable, the work plays on the art historical tradition of depicting the Virtue of Charity as a single female figure.

Matt Lipps» photographic work consistently flips traditional curatorial, photographic, and art historical traditions on their heads.

Cwynar's conceptual photographs — ranging from $ 4,500 to $ 12,000 — deal with issues of consumption and materialism, while challenging formal and art historical traditions of photography.

Focusing on the subtleties of appearance, or visage, the exhibition showcases over twenty recent paintings, many never before exhibited, alongside Portrait de Gabriella la jolie vènetienne (1963), an exceptional work that anchors Raysse's decades - long engagement with the art historical tradition of portraiture and celebrates his unique position as a contemporary classical painter.

While all of these objects share clear references to Minimalism and abstraction, their twarting of this art historical tradition could not be more radical.

His sculpture Petit Monument (2010) alludes to the art historical tradition of equestrian sculpture and originated as a design for a monument in honor of Willem of Orange and Marnix of Saint Aldegonde, two sixteenth - century political figures of great importance for Antwerp and the Netherlands in times of humanism and religious wars.

Jason S. Yi: A Fragile Permanence draws on phenomenology, contemporary installation, and the art historical tradition of landscape painting.

The exhibition presents a collection of Fries» paintings that integrate silkscreened fragments of 17th century Baroque and Mannerist prints into a hybrid fusion of figuration and abstraction, art historical tradition, and adventurous innovation.

Known for her explicit male nudes that quote and subvert the art historical tradition of male gaze onto female body, Sleigh's portraits feature artists, musicians and writers of both genders, representing a pantheon of significant cultural figures.

Known for her explicit male nudes that quote and subvert the art historical tradition of male gaze onto female body, in her portraits feature artists, musicians and writers of both genders, dressed and naked, representing a pantheon of significant cultural figures.

What they share here — apart from the very strong painting that pervades the show — is a consciousness of the art historical tradition of painting within which each artist creates his or her work.

Jeroen Frateur's art is entangled with the art historical traditions mentioned above, though his work has more to do with composition and it obviously challenges a definition / status that hesitates between sculpture and installation.

Pop culture emoji symbols, calligraphic script, and silhouetted shapes articulate a visual vocabulary that speaks to art historical traditions and material value.

The work relates to the art historical tradition of picturing the outsider, including Jean Dubuffet's interest in the art of children or the insane and more closely the late studies by Thèodore Géricault of individual heads and other body parts from the morgue.

Soaring, gathered mountains and delicate water and trees coalesce to form a serene landscape that is replete with references to both art historical tradition and contemporary commentary on the act of graphic creation.

During this period, Bearden engaged in intense study of the art historical tradition, assimilating themes and, at times, compositional structures of past works.

Kehinde Wiley revamps the tradition of classical portraiture, retroactively injecting black subjects into the art historical tradition, while Mickalene Thomas addresses understandings of womanhood, identity and desire with her bedazzled interior portraits.

Simultaneously, Stingel's paintings, like those of many of his contemporaries, find precedent in the art historical traditions of painting, seeking to push the development of the medium to ever greater heights.

The way he has brought together the art historical traditions of John James Audubon and the great naturalists of the past with profound and often challenging cultural themes has established him as a uniquely American artist.

As the first of its kind at the Hammer Museum, the exhibition is both a reminder that gender gaps and cultural disparities need to be systematically and productively addressed by institutions, and an inspiring restitution of female artists» place in the art historical tradition of subversion through language and performativity.

Drawing on popular iconography, commercial advertising, the art historical tradition of the still life, and cultural symbols, Pittman composes dense and boldly colorful paintings that reference the medium's rich history while simultaneously emerging as something that is entirely unique.