Sentences with phrase «art historical traditions of»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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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.