one art is a tree as assisted ready - made, building on
the art historical tradition of landscape and grappling with our desire to believe in an untamed nature.
«Julie Heffernan draws from a rich
art historical tradition of still lifes, landscapes, and portraiture to create her lush canvases.
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.
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.
Jason S. Yi: A Fragile Permanence draws on phenomenology, contemporary installation, and
the art historical tradition of landscape painting.
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.
The catalog contains a foreword by Dean Anthony Vidler that places Slutzky's paintings in dialogue with his seminal essay, Transparency: Literal and Phenonmenal, (written with Colin Rowe in 1955); an interview with Slutzky by Emmanuel J. Petit that discusses the painter's critical strategies of artistic production; an essay by Robert C. Morgan that examines Slutzky's conceptual position in
the art historical tradition of Leon Battista Alberti and Josef Albers; and an essay by Robert Slutzky with Joan Ockman on metaphor in his work.
Monumental yet vulnerable, the work plays on
the art historical tradition of depicting the Virtue of Charity as a single female figure.
BAL: What is your relationship to
the art historical tradition of Land Art?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Not exact matches
thus the manuscript
tradition represents state
of the
art historical recording at that time.
Some
of these activities include live musicians, presentations on the
historical significance
of the Chinese
tradition and demonstrations
of cultural
arts.
UCSB's
Art, Design & Architecture Museum (AD&A) and the Santa Barbara
Historical Museum will showcase «Sacred
Art in the Age
of Contact: Chumash and Latin American
Traditions in Santa Barbara.»
Fairmont Sanur Beach Bali is a world - class all - suite - and - villa resort set amidst four hectares
of lush tropical gardens.Only 25 minutes from the Ngurah Rai International Airport, the property is located along 200m
of golden beach in the Sanur district in southeast Bali.Once a fishing village, Sanur is today full
of historical charm and a hub for Balinese
art, culture and
tradition well away from the hustle and bustle
of the rest
of the island.
Other series by Zeng have combined
art -
historical traditions, often resulting in a kind
of abstraction that marries Western and non-Western styles.
Questioning the distinctions between high and low
art, Ceramics presents new works that are an appropriation and celebration
of the cultural and
historical vernacular
traditions of her native Poland and a wider European context.
Part homage to a civil rights hero, part critique
of the
traditions of art history, this large - scale painting powerfully reminds us
of the exclusion
of African American culture and history in the wider
art historical canon.»
They also show her flaunting
art -
historical tradition, playing with the boundaries between painting and collage, using materials unexpectedly, and infusing her work with her a sense
of alchemy.
The end product arises out
of a sculptural
tradition based on the creation
of works
of art influenced by religion and literature, but simultaneously reduced to a secret level
of identification — an
art historical lingua franca.
Fred Tomaselli (New York, NY) draws upon
art historical sources and Eastern and Western decorative
traditions to create works that explode with mesmerizing patterns through the layering
of resin, pharmaceuticals, and organic materials.
This work can be interpreted in the simplest, most direct manner — as a stereotyped image
of China's food culture and painting
traditions, but at the same time, its multiple references to various Chinese social and
historical backgrounds make interpretation much more difficult: the use
of objects to express morality in Chinese landscaping, satirical poetry mocking ostentatious refinement, and the imitation
of handwritten menus to capture a scene
of civil life... Viewers unfamiliar with the specific context can easily find themselves lost in the smokescreen
of mysterious Oriental poetic calligraphy and bonsai
art.
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.
The selection also illustrates some
of the
art -
historical traditions in L.A. such as 1960s Pop
art, the Conceptual
art of the 1970s, Minimalism with its Finish Fetish, the Light and Space movement, the great and important post-conceptual movements, and not least all the artists with a social and political engagement.
The exhibition title references many facets
of arts and culture
traditions from ancient history to the modern day, arising out
of Smith's meditations on the number's spiritual significance as a marker
of immortality, as well a number
of noteworthy cultural and
historical facts and figures featuring the number itself.
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.
In the 1980s, a decade when artists commonly appropriated styles or imagery from earlier
art historical periods, Mark Innerst became known for beautifully crafted natural and urban landscape paintings that gave new life to the American
tradition of the romantic sublime.
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.
Liz Nielsen's work joins and adds to the
historical tradition of the photogram — one
of the medium's earliest processes - but one which has enjoyed a renaissance in the worlds
of contemporary
art and color photography.
Working within a long
art historical and anthropological
tradition of funerary and memorial work, Holmes has been inspired by a wide range
of burial practices.
Their current work explores the relationship between contemporary
art making practices and the
historical tradition of romantic landscape painting.
Lambri's carefully composed and thought - out works evoke
art -
historical traditions of minimalism and abstract painting, and therefore, her images often display Modernist ideals
of framing, abstraction, and transcendence.
Therefore, the artist's works are, on the one hand, evocative
of the Western
art historical canon, while on the other, they upend engrained
traditions as they vividly investigate the grey area between so - called «objective» history and subjective memory.
Even as his work historically emerges from these
traditions — organizing simple structures, the use
of objects as integers in a larger series, a simple declarative use
of materials — his work also foregrounds aspects
of such works that have become lost in the
art historical context.
Since then, his work has been included in several
historical shows, including A Shared
Tradition:
Art by Four African Americans at the Indianapolis Museum
of Art (1996) and Abstract Expressionism: Further Evidence at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery (2009).
But the fact is, America's lack
of deep
historical traditions has always left a vestigial odor
of parochialism and idiosyncrasy clinging to its
art.
One
of Bearden's «hierographic paintings,» it is more analytical — and less concerned with religious faith than with trying to work through the European
art -
historical tradition while homing in on a distinctly modern style.
Daniel Gordon's trompe l'oeil conceptual works allude to a wide range
of art historical influences, from Dutch still lifes and Cubism to assemblage and collage
traditions, but each one begins with an internet image search.
In direct contrast to the
historical traditions of these 1960s
art movements, which leaned towards the isolated and objective, these three artists create a dialogue through their work that brings memory, nostalgia, and landscape to the forefront
of their practice.»
Patricia Cronin's lovely watercolor Female (After Rodin) unexpectedly subverts the
art -
historical tradition of the male gaze.
Nara integrates elements
of his Western education with
historical traditions in Japanese
art, crafting a distinct aesthetic and process.
Rooted in the long
tradition of twentieth - century
art, the artwork is a recycling and re-hanging
of Provincetown's
historical street banners.
Martial Raysse's exhibition showcases a series
of recent paintings, many
of which have never been exhibited, and several
historical works that illustrate his sustained engagement with the
art -
historical tradition of portraiture.
The work is rooted in a multi-disciplinary approach that is as faceted in the mediums employed as in the array
of art historical, literary and folk
tradition references.
A pioneer in painting, Murray's distinctively shaped canvases break with the
art -
historical tradition of illusionistic space in two - dimensions.
With a particular focus on an examination
of subculture communities, Opie's photographs unite current day politics and societal structures with a classical
art aesthetic, culminating in a body
of work that expands upon the
tradition of documentary photography as well as the greater
art historical canon.
In this presentation Brice expands her recent use
of a near single colour palette to include dynamic reds and deep greens to create large - scale paintings which address the
art -
historical tradition of the female nude.
NDBut I feel when I look at your paintings that I'm participating in some kind
of art -
historical tradition.