Experimenting with cyanotype and platinum palladium prints made on traditional gold and platinum leaf, her work reflects the interplay
between art historical traditions and the more modern tradition of photography, firmly anchoring Lucretia in both realms.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
A pioneer in painting and former professor at Bard College, Murray is known for distinctively shaped canvases that break with
art -
historical tradition and blur the lines
between painting and sculpture.
Their current work explores the relationship
between contemporary
art making practices and the
historical tradition of romantic landscape painting.
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.
Blurring the lines
between painting and sculpture, imagery and objecthood, her work frequently includes plays on
art historical references and
traditions.
Her imagery merges traditional nonfigurative Turkish
art with Western
art historical references, while highlighting shifting notions of gender and class within the context of the struggle
between modernity and
tradition.
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!
The patterns reference
art historical styles and canons, from Jugendstil to Islamic
art, allowing the painted subject to transcend linear interpretation, and providing a dialogue
between contemporary painting and an array of epochs and
traditions.
Jeroen Frateur's
art is entangled with the
art historical traditions mentioned above, though his work has more to do with composition and it obviously challenges a definition / status that hesitates
between sculpture and installation.
«The vividly colored works of Iranian born and Zurich based artist Shirana Shahbazi hover
between abstraction and figuration, often drawing inspiration from the
art -
historical tradition of still life painting.
First, from an
art -
historical perspective, the equation
between art and reality conjures up the
tradition of the readymade initiated by Marcel Duchamp and transformed by postwar artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, who in 1959 famously declared: «Painting relates to