Sentences with phrase «art tradition»

They have certainly made adjustments to the new situation in which students come to prepare for jobs, but to a remarkable degree they maintain the liberal arts tradition.
The department emphasizes an awareness of fine arts traditions as well as the professional disciplines of the contemporary media artist.
Do you identify as belonging to the pop art tradition?
His oeuvre seamlessly combines high and low references that span religion, sex, nature, fine art, and folk and decorative arts traditions.
He creates a hybrid of visual art traditions and stimulates new conversations around cultural tolerance.
There's a general softness to the art, which fits nicely the Eastern art tradition and lends the film a distinct identity and personality.
It seems that our own art tradition has slowly boiled into these sunny days we get to experience.
Here's what you need to know about a weird and wonderful art tradition.
A Shared Legacy celebrates folk art traditions in rural areas of New England, the South, and the Midwest between 1800 and 1925.
In Lucio Fontana: Brasil, the dialogue between the two is explored through instances of collation, approximation and comparison, and is traced to their shared origins in Western art traditions and its developments in South America.
«Inventing Abstraction» is so forcefully, lucidly, and persuasively wrongheaded that it achieves its own kind of intellectual glory, instantly recognizable as the latest in a great Museum of Modern Art tradition of shows that make arguments that practically beg to be contradicted.
In calling himself a performance artist, Jones is referencing a controversial live art tradition with roots in the 1950s and «60s, involving movements like Gutai and Fluxus and individuals like Marina Abramović and Vito Acconci.
Masters of Venice: Renaissance Painters of Passion and Power From the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Yet again the Fine Arts Museums have brought to the de Young (through Feb. 12) an ensemble of works - this time by luminaries such as Titian, Giorgione, Tintoretto and Veronese - that anyone with an interest in European art tradition must see.
Her paintings are influenced by European and American art traditions and tensions, and she reconciles them with her own pictorial voice, albeit one that gives a shout out to artists including Henri Matisse, David Hockney, Albert Oehlen, and Dana Schutz, to name a few.
Rhinestones and sequins recall folk art traditions as well as the jewelry and cosmetics that can enhance or mask a woman's identity.
In 1977 Andy Warhol conceived of the «Torsos» series, a group of works inspired by both the high art tradition of the classical nude and the ancient history of erotic art.
«Elizabeth Catlett: A Celebration of 100 Years» and «Elizabeth Catlett and the Hampton Art Tradition» are on view Jan. 30 - Nov.
This series approaches the patriotic art tradition that for centuries artists like Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and David Hammons, among others, have followed with the intent of canonize events, aesthetics and American Culture.
The exquisite lines of her hand - cut paper silhouettes speak to centuries of vernacular art tradition in the United States and Europe.
The annual Guild Hall's Artists Members Exhibition is a beloved Hamptons art tradition that draws the art crowd to the East Hampton museum every time.
His work explores both Afro - diasporic culture and the Western modernist art tradition.
SC Let me finish here — that kind of Expressionism which was a reaction against a very formalist, academic tradition of Modernism, specifically European; Abstract Expressionism in the US, a social gesture within the context of a Modern Art tradition and expressionism as it exists today.
This boro sashiko quilting technique is much like Kantha, a centuries - old art tradition thought to have originated with the Buddha and his followers, but attributed to Odisha and West Bengal of India, and Bangladesh.
Huang Young Ping has been concerned about finding an intelligent balance between the Western concept of art and the Chinese art tradition, particularly as regards traditional materials and their uses.
However, at the Contemporary Arts Center's multi-artist exhibition, the line of influence between Southern art traditions and modern - day practices pops out in fantastical paintings by Douglas Bourgeois, the coral water tanks of Glenn Kaino and «Skybox,» a political multimedia installation by Charles Gaines that has an epic, celestial twist.
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON: Contemporary Polish Papercuts: Revival of a Folk Art Tradition by Marta Golab, through Feb. 2.
Akbar adhered to the Persian ideas of art which he inherited from his mother and his father, who had lived in Persia, but his Rajput marriages attracted him to Hindu art traditions.
I've long been happy to point parents, students, and donors to Providence College as a school that takes the classic liberal arts tradition seriously, and does so with a distinctively Catholic flavor.
The ancient art traditions had ceased by the 20th century.
Portfolios in classrooms today are derived from the visual and performing arts tradition in which they serve to showcase artists» accomplishments and personally favored works.
Melnikov was an heir to the Russian art tradition, which emphasized the expressive, emotional elements in creativity.
Viola's art, like that of Robert Smithson or James Turrell, is situated within a contemporary art tradition that draws its authority and iconography from primitive art and mythology, reaching back in time to the origins of art in religion.
Developed outside of the structure of schools, galleries, and museums, these rich yet largely unknown African American visual art traditions present a distinct post — Civil Rights phenomenon that offers powerful insight and fresh perspectives into the most compelling political and social issues of our time.
His work incorporated art traditions ranging from Persian miniatures and Oriental rugs to African art and Asian calligraphy.
Her work is also closely aligned with Middle Eastern and Islamic art traditions in her use of pattern, repetition, and intricate markings.
The 15 artists hail from US and European cities, reminding us that despite recent market trends and interest in Chinese painting and Modernism's unapologetic borrowing of African art traditions, the Western art world still stakes a proprietary claim to painting.
How, for example, British artists and travellers brought exotic subjects and faraway events within the conventions of European art; but, conversely, the way the indigenous art traditions of overseas territories adapted to the British presence.
In 1921, Rodchenko created and exhibited three monochrome paintings — one red, one yellow, and one blue — as a proclamation of painting's death and the end of bourgeois art tradition.
Their pathbreaking experiments thus address the relationship between regionality and globalization in contemporary art, and demonstrate convincingly how originality can be constituted by combining an Asian art tradition with artistic internationalism.
Historically, there has been a distinct separation between media and genres of art - the beaux arts tradition imported from the Grande Academie of Paris, from which American art institutions were derived, maintained clear boundaries between the plastic, performing, and literary arts - whoa, I'll stop there before I go off on an art historical tangent!
Shown alongside works from the Tønder museum collection, this exhibition explores various themes in the work of Henry Moore which can be related to the Nordic art tradition and the work of artists such as Vilhelm Hammershøi, Asger Jorn, Erik Thommesen, Per Kirkeby, Svend Wiig Hansen, Per Inge Bjørloe and Ian McKeever.
He has a strong sense of Bay Area art traditions — his father is a second - generation Abstract Expressionist painter who taught art at De Anza High School in Richmond — as well being interested in a wide range of modern and contemporary artists from many countries.
In the Visionary Art tradition, the 39th Street Gallery presents six self - taught artists in their upcoming exhibitions.
Shortly after they met in the late 1960s, however, Metcalfe and Lee - Nova gained international recognition and contributed to the development of Vancouver's burgeoning performance and mail art traditions via their alternate personas of Dr. Brute and Art Rat.
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Victor Kanefsky's effervescent documentary Art Bastard casts 76 - year old New York painter Robert Cenedella as a kind of aesthetic Robin Hood who robs from hallowed art tradition to give ordinary people bravura paintings that don't require them to plumb art history or some other arcane discipline to appreciate.
Among the influential figures here are Trude Guermonprez (1910 - 1975), who trained at the Bauhaus and taught alongside Anni Albers at Black Mountain College, and Ed Rossbach (1914 - 2002), who came out of the California Funk Art tradition.
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