Sentences with phrase «art tradition of men»

Ana Mendieta's «Untitled (Glass on Body Imprints)» from 1972 turns on its head the art tradition of men creating female nudes, and lets Mendieta depict herself, distorting her form with a pane of glass.

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Messiah College, an evangelical liberal arts institution with roots in the Men - nonite tradition, is sponsoring a project titled «Reforming the Center: Beyond the Two - Party System of American Protestantism.»

Flat, blank facades on buildings conceived as commodities — or just oddities — rather than works of civic art; flat modernist pictorial abstractions; the flattening of cultural history into pseudo-history packaged as what Henry dismissed as «applied sociology» — all spoke to him of something far more ominous, the abasement of man and the crude negation of his proper relationship to nature as embodied in the great tradition.

If I interpret the prospectus of the CMC correctly, the objective of the CMC namely to «impart to men and women an education of the highest order in the art and science of medicine and to equip them in the spirit of Christ for service In the relief of suffering and promotion of health», that is, the idea of a combination of training in professional skills, moulding the technically trained in a culture of human values and motivation, equipping them to utilize technology to serve «with compassion and concern for the whole person», the people especially the weaker sections of society, and giving spiritual reinforcement of that culture by the «spirit of Christ» and the motto «Not to be Ministered unto but to Minister» derived from him, goes back in tradition to the founder herself (Prospectus MBBS Course p. 5).

No man has insisted on this more vigorously than Baron von Hügel, who with all his deep faith in the fullness of our Lord's embodiment of God, was yet ever ready to maintain that in other religious traditions, and likewise in science, art, philosophy, ethics, as well as in the simple humdrum experiences of daily life, God in some way and to some degree has been found and known.

But in its living tradition that art — moving for instance from Rembrandt through Daumier and Van Gogh to Rouault — brings unitive and fresh perception, contemporaneousness of understanding and inventive technique to the ever - new discovery and revelation of man's and nature's faces and forms.

One of the highly experienced politicians in Ghana's political history, who studied at the feet of great men like Kofi Abrefa Busia, Victor Owusu, perfected their arts, corrected their mistakes and rose to become the «successful leader of the Danquah - Busia - Dumbo tradition» by serving as President of Ghana, has repeated his call for an extension of the presidential term arguing, the four - year term, is not enough to make a meaningful impact as President.

BMW's latest art car is a return to tradition — the M3 GT2, modified by American painter / sculptor Jeff Koons, will, in fact, compete in the 2010 running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Its art galleries, murals and textiles contain paintings that reflect contemporary and ancestrial culture like the relationship between man and the universe from the perspective of Mayan traditions.

As a young man, Che studied Fine Arts at National Taiwan Normal University, where he was taught about the Eastern traditions of painting.

One - man shows include National Museum, Lagos, Nigeria, 1991, October Gallery, London, 1995, 1998, 2002, Contemporary African Gallery, New York City, 2005, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, 2006, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City, 2008, exhibited in group shows at Contemporary African Artists: A Changing Tradition, Studio Museum Harlem, New York City, 1990, Venice Biennale, 1990, 2007, Johannesburg Biennale, 1995, The Poetics of Line, National Museum African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, 1997, Encounters with the Contemporary, 2001, Osaka Sculpture Triennale, Japan, 1999, Altered, Stitched and Gathered, Process Status 1 Contemporary Art Center, 2007, Tapping Currents: Contemporary African Art and Diaspora, Nelson - Atkins Museum Art, Kansas City, 2008.

Rarely do these commissions make any kind of larger statement about American art, but last fall, when Barack Obama selected Kehinde Wiley — a figurative painter who deploys the techniques, poses and patterns of the grand tradition of Baroque European paintings to portray contemporary black and brown men he finds on the street — to paint his official portrait for the Smithsonian, it at least reflected the Obamas» well - developed connections to the world of culture.

Other topics included an influential 1983 article by Sid Sachs (University of the Arts)-- who was in the audience — on whether there was such a thing as a Philadelphia Imagist tradition; a College Art Association conference chaired by curator Judith Stein (also in the audience); the number of artists who taught and lived in both Chicago and Philadelphia (particularly Ree Morton and Rafael Ferrer); and the equal representation of men and women among the Chicago Imagists.

A bohemian to the core, a believer in the journey of art and the reinvention of the self, Surrealist or no, Man Ray is in the tradition of Poe, Melville, Ryder, and Blakelock — the tradition of the American Romantic.

Sevin's art photography is experimental in nature and builds on the tradition established by some of the giants of photography: Man Ray, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Laszlo Moholy - Nagy and Hans Breder.

What both movements have in common is that they overcome representational art and thus become detached from their own origin in the Greek civilization (with its tradition of representing man, in contrast to the Ornamentalism of the East).

Pollock's friend and patron Alfonso Osorio described what is so unique and compelling about Pollock's work by saying about his artistic journey, «Here I saw a man who had both broken all the traditions of the past and unified them, who had gone beyond cubism, beyond Picasso and surrealism, beyond everything that had happened in art... his work expressed both action and contemplation.»

Now 66, Stella offers the allure of a man who has spent nearly half a century passionately defending the marginalized, rich tradition of abstract art — and who, moreover, has a big mouth.

His work has also been included in a number of important international group exhibitions, including: «The Encyclopedic Palace,» 55th Venice Biennale (2013); «10,000 Lives,» Gwangju Biennial, South Korea (2010); «21 artists for the 21st century,» Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2010); «Making Worlds,» 53rd Venice Biennale (2009); «Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution, 1968 - 2008,» Palazzo Grassi, Venice, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2008 — 10); «After Nature,» New Museum, New York (2008); «Fractured Figure: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection,» DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens (2007); and «Of Mice and Men,» 4th Berlin Biennial (2006of important international group exhibitions, including: «The Encyclopedic Palace,» 55th Venice Biennale (2013); «10,000 Lives,» Gwangju Biennial, South Korea (2010); «21 artists for the 21st century,» Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2010); «Making Worlds,» 53rd Venice Biennale (2009); «Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution, 1968 - 2008,» Palazzo Grassi, Venice, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2008 — 10); «After Nature,» New Museum, New York (2008); «Fractured Figure: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection,» DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens (2007); and «Of Mice and Men,» 4th Berlin Biennial (2006of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2008 — 10); «After Nature,» New Museum, New York (2008); «Fractured Figure: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection,» DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens (2007); and «Of Mice and Men,» 4th Berlin Biennial (2006Of Mice and Men,» 4th Berlin Biennial (2006).