Sentences with phrase «artistic tradition»

His extensive body of work has placed him at the forefront of contemporary art, where he has become best known for his ability to successfully merge the best of yesterday's artistic tradition with a fresh, modern approach that is unique.

Curry, on the other hand, participated in a regionalist movement that, while it attracted support in the short run, essentially cut against the grain of the American artistic tradition.

The elegant symmetry of the works in this series is achieved by placing a sequence of L - shaped right angles in a variety of combinations — in Telluride they are placed back to back — to produce the first paintings in Stella's oeuvre that breaks centuries of artistic tradition that enclosed pictorial illusion within the confines of a rectangular enclosed space.

In her painting, Saville reclaims the female image from the male - orientated artistic tradition, inviting the viewer to cast their gaze on a blemished, abundantly fallible portrait.

The renowned MATRIX series, a changing exhibition of contemporary art, is a continuation of the Wadsworth's legacy of presenting the work of living artists, an artistic tradition that extends from Thomas Cole and Frederic Church to Salvador Dalí and into the present day.

The exhibition will shed light on the breadth of Chu Teh - Chun's practice and suggest that, rather than adopting the ideals of Western painting, Chu's move to Europe encouraged him to discover and embrace these resonating elements already within the Chinese artistic tradition.

This exhibition of recent works by Martha Jones features oil paintings based on a consistent set of elements that call on the viewer to think about issues of color, scale, and abstraction within an artistic tradition.

Beautiful to look at, almost to the point of decoration, the works echo out toward the viewer, and one is easily taken by the romance of the pleasing combination of color and structure, and the quiet reference to an earlier artistic tradition of painting interiors.

The overflowing of its frontiers, aggressions, and military occupations, and colonial and neo-colonial politics of the United States imperialism, have denaturalized and violated cultural and artistic tradition of other peoples as well as within the U.S. itself.»

A whole new artistic tradition...

developed in the chinese artistic tradition of mirroring forms found in nature, the two «watermelon» ceramic pieces are realist manifestations of this organic and commonplace object.

Fifty graphic masterpieces representing the American artistic tradition from 1880 to the present day are showcased in Eye Contact.

By now, however, it should be apparent that art - as - critique has become a ritual, just another artistic tradition.

At the same time, her reexamination of the human body paralleled the cultural upheaval of the sexual revolution and women's movement: her work challenged the Western artistic tradition that regarded a woman's proper place in the arts as sitter or muse.

However solely placing Santalov's work in the Russian artistic tradition of the beginning of the past century does not do it enough justice.

Another section explores the expressive use of color, focusing on Arthur Beecher Carles, Henry Breckenridge, and Henry McCarter who stretched the boundaries of artistic tradition by relieving color of its purely descriptive function.

The «Gladiatori» by Giorgio de Chirico from 1928, belong to a series that the artist elaborated for Paul Guillaume during his time in Paris.The reference to the Italian artistic tradition is evident.

But according to NAM director Monica Ramirez - Montagut, who curated the show, Clark's and Dezsö's work can be viewed as following in the footsteps of Newcomb's artistic tradition.

A departure from the flashy red lips and shockingly tan bodies that have become the trademark of American Pop artist Tom Wesselmann, Monica Sitting Up Against a Wall reimagines a time - honored artistic tradition — the drawing of the female nude.

You can't get more basic than excrement, and of course shit has an honourable artistic tradition.

And as for relating to institutional art world structures, she sees the work of public folklorists concentrating in the arts as having anticipated «relational aesthetics» and «social practice,» but «done so on its own terms and by privileging the voice of the artistic tradition - bearer rather than the curator or artist / interpreter.»

* has specialized training in the artistic field (not necessarily in academic institutions) * is recognized as a professional by their peers (artists working in the same artistic tradition), and * is committed to an on - going artistic practice

«The evocation of mystery that the viewer experiences in Oliveira's work derives from a depth of feeling refracted through artistic tradition and transmitted to the spectator by the artist's hand,» wrote Peter Selz in a catalog essay for Oliveira's 2002 painting and printmaking retrospective at the San Jose Museum of Art, California.

These artists inaugurated, as critic Craig Owens puts it, the «refusal of the role of creator as «father» of his work, of the paternal rights assigned to the author by law»; they interrupted an understanding of artistic tradition as «a contract between fathers and sons.»

[8] The artistic tradition does not see a commonplace object (such as a urinal) as art because it is not made by an artist or with any intention of being art, nor is it unique or hand - crafted.

he initially began working with gunpowder to foster spontaneity and confront the suppression that he felt from the controlled artistic tradition and social climate in china at the time.

The subject works varied in style to a degree, but were typically characterized by the absence of compositional structure, which represented (at least in Tapié's mind) a fundamental break with artistic tradition.

Since the arts are vital to the cultural diversity and enrichment of the region, the event helps ensure the rich artistic tradition will continue.

About the LACMA panel Fields writes: «Its palette of strong primary colors and the prominent use of step - fret imagery throughout its composition... identify it as an extraordinary example of the artistic tradition referred to as the International Style, which dominated Mesoamerica during the Late Postclassic period (AD 1200 — 1400).»

Accomplished in a variety of media, Cai began using gunpowder in his work to foster spontaneity and confront the controlled artistic tradition and social climate in China.

His idea of modern painting is to deliberately, and constantly, reveal how modern life disfigures and traduces the old nobilities, as expressed in artistic tradition.

Collier's work can be understood as following a conceptual artistic tradition inherited from Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, and Douglas Huebler, as they too worked with content - laden artifacts of our media age rather than creating new objects.

Collections: The Portland Museum of Art www.portlandmuseum.org boasts significant holdings of American, European, and contemporary art, as well as iconic works from Maine — highlighting the rich artistic tradition of the state and its artists.

Baselitz remembers how it felt to be working at a time when all sense of artistic tradition had been destroyed.

This engrossing book compiles interviews with 19 contemporary architects, painters, sculptors and conceptual artists to present inspiring interpretations of this deeply rooted artistic tradition.

In her use of contemporary technology, Aycock is advancing sculpture, taking up where artists like John Chamberlain left off, by utilizing the new processes of industry towards a poetic end, thus expanding the artistic tradition of turning technology back on itself.

As such, they play into the artistic tradition of the grotesque, paralleling for example Bruegel's accounts of folk behaviour.

This exhibition will include important paintings, sculpture, photography and works on paper by more than thirty artists, offering a rare opportunity to examine the significance of an artistic tradition that, outside of the African - American community, was too often ignored during much of the twentieth century.

Unlike the Modernists of the 1950s and»60s, many of whom were trained in a European artistic tradition that relied on cultural appropriation, White's repetitive geometric and mask - like forms are the result of his absorption and processing of images in his world outside the academy.

The first major exhibition of its kind, it will celebrate the unrecognised artists and artefacts from an often overlooked, unique British artistic tradition.

By his early thirties, however, he'd turned centuries of western artistic tradition on its head.

Jessica Silverman's exhibition, titled White Is The Warmest Color, explores the rich artistic tradition of minimal color from transparent sculptures through off - white works to bleached abstractions... read more

The genre of still life has enjoyed unexpected power in America's artistic tradition.

Her decorative hand additions to the sometimes glitched camera images draw from the early Christian / Byzantine artistic tradition of using geometric patterns to represent an unknowable higher power, and materials like gold leaf to indicate a spiritual or otherworldly presence.

In Falmouth, the county has a university with a strong artistic tradition, plus there are interesting smaller spaces like Newlyn Art Gallery & the Exchange in Penzance.

In many ways, her work can be understood as following a conceptual artistic tradition inherited from Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, and Douglas Huebler of pointing at the ironic and content - laden artifacts of our media age rather than creating new objects.

Landscape and collage have long been crucial components of my oeuvre, serving both to refer formally to artists who have influenced my work and to activate the re-contextualization and re-evaluation of artistic tradition that I aim for.

Kippenberger's punk temperament, audacious motifs and chaotic picture compositions are part of an artistic tradition that embraces Dadaism and Pop art and includes fellow countrymen such as Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke.

While Indonesia has always had a rich artistic tradition, with many artists forming collaboratives and exhibition spaces on the islands of Java and Bali in particular, it is only the last two decades that the market and audience for their work have expanded globally.

Although Blayton employed techniques from Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting, she noted that her work did not grow out of any particular artistic tradition, but rather the feelings generated by her own thoughts.