Sentences with phrase «artistic traditions earlier»

If the new dates for the Spanish cave art are confirmed, they could indicate that Neandertals and H. sapiens exchanged artistic traditions earlier than previously thought, says paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London, who was not involved in the studies.

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In its early days, Christian art was eclectic and drew upon «multiple artistic traditions from a wide range of cultures.»

In the selected items on view, the developments of American artistic traditions can be traced through the early interests in portraiture, the rise in prominence of landscape painting in the 19th - century, the popularity of genre scenes, as well as the academic traditions of history and large - scale society paintings.

Nigerian - born, Berlin - based Otobong Nkanga's early training in the converging traditions of live arts and performance lend a decidedly wayward, playful charge to her research - heavy artistic practice, steering her work away from the dour academicism that so often cripples art projects invested in the production and dissemination of knowledge.

Jewish Museum Members are invited to an early Members - only viewing of Chaim Soutine: Flesh, featuring Soutine's remarkable paintings depicting hanging fowl, beef carcasses, and rayfish, imbued with the unique visual conceptions and painterly energy that the artist brought to the tradition of still - life, considered among his greatest artistic achievements.

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.

The first of the installations shows signs of the constructive elements connected with the artistic traditions of the early twentieth century.

Communication as an art form is an ancient tradition, but mail art as an organized and conscious artistic movement first appeared in the late 50s and early 60s.

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

Group exhibitions by several commercial galleries, the formation of a number of different artists organizations and the revival of the California Art Club [26] all played a role in spreading the artistic philosophy and stylistic influences of the Early California painters and creating a commercial marketplace for artists who became part of the same tradition.

According to art critics, Scully's artistic vision follows the traditions of early European concrete art in the manner of Mondrian or Theo Van Doesburg, in relation to its desire for harmony and order, but late American abstraction (à la Pollock and Rothko), in its insistence on utilizing large powerful canvases to express a personal state of mind.

Popular artistic practice has remained stuck in the prerevolutionary tradition, where artists are encouraged to create works that imitate early twentieth century masters such as Cézanne and Picasso or deal with religious themes and iconography.

Over the past 50 years, Sean Scully has created an artistic system of his own, gathering and developing the best plastic traditions of the early 20th - century avant - garde and combining them with complex metaphysical philosophy from the Ancient Greeks to theorists of the present day.

The Paul J. Sachs Prints and Illustrated Books Galleries, second floor Since the early 20th century, abstraction has been associated with so many artistic movements, from Suprematism and Constructivism to Abstract Expressionism and Op art, that it can no longer be defined by any one style or 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.

Drawing inspiration from her own experience, including the Southern California surf culture of her childhood, the San Francisco beatnik era of her teen years, the punk and new wave music scenes of 1970s and early 80s New York, and her formal training as a sculptor and ceramist, Heilmann incorporates a complex amalgam of personal references, cultural influences, and craft traditions in an artistic practice that includes painting, painted ceramics, and constructed furniture.

«White - Tipped Blooming» exemplifies many outstanding characteristics of Surls's oeuvre, which call to mind the artistic traditions on which he builds his practice: the unique oak - and - steel construction consists of expressively carved biomorphic forms that conjure primitivist aesthetics and mythical imagery of early 20th - century avant - garde sculpture, while the humble, organic materials pay homage to American folk art.

These photographs document the intertwining of dance and sculpture in Nengudi's early work, and reigster the diverse social and artistic traditions from which that work drew inspiration.