Sentences with phrase «between painting genres»

Perhaps because the cataclysmic events of the early and mid-twentieth century destroyed so many value systems, and blurred the difference between good and evil, this period paid less attention to the difference between the painting genres, and stopped giving special status to history painting.

Not exact matches

My intention involves blurring the lines between genres, so that still lifes can read as landscapes, portraits, history painting, etc..

Characterised by its fluidity between genres, his diverse output ranges from paintings, sculptures and murals to furniture and even entire buildings.

Sen's work moves with ease, and spontaneously, between genres — drawing, painting, sculpture, collage, performance, installation, video, (not to mention that she is also a poet) and it is our loss that her name is not better known in the West.

Referencing 17th century Dutch still life painting and Asian animation genres, the artist creates video images that are caught between action and non-action, where narrative is both imminent and suspended.

Painting, photography, construction and most especially all the hybrids in between conventional genres are pursued in this collage survey, with artistic intentions from the narrative to the minimal and modernist, landscape, portrait, cultural motif, abstract expressionism, formal poetics, nostalgia, emotion, and technical bravado.

Emerging on the art scene with fellow New York artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, Twombly kept to a genre all his own, blurring the line between painting and drawing, and incorporating words, scribbles, and a childlike sensibility that revealed mediation and melancholy.

The works in exhibition seek to exist between genres of figurative or abstract, highbrow or lowbrow, sentimental and academic, and all the other limiting binaries of interpretation to be both volatile and conservative, soulful and austere, containing elements that appeal to both sides in these paintings, or as the artist puts it, «ambassadors between the two mindsets.»

Gianfranco Foschino's (Chile) videos confront one's perceived distinctions between multiple genres including photography, painting and video.

Writing on Owens» navigation between genres as diverse as folk, conceptual, and classical painting, Paul Schimmel said, «Owens has found a language that questions the nature of painting while embracing its multifarious manifestations.»

Utilizing common and everyday materials, they construct works that move between the genres of painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, and performance.

Working in drawing, painting, animation, installation, film and video, and employing ideas that are often subversive and polemical in nature, Sikander creates vivid works that confront and interrogate the perceptual distances between cultures while deconstructing the genre of miniature painting itself.

Moving Pictures is presented in four components: the introductory section suggests parallels between the first American films and traditional artistic genres such as landscape and marine painting.

«The colors are poured into paintings that hover calmly between the representational and the abstract, refusing to relax into either genre.

Straddling the border between painting and sculpture, John Dante Bianchi «s relief sculpture begs to be considered within both genres.

This intuition of unity affects my approach to materials as well as genre, leading me to abandon the conventional categorizations of media in favor of an approach that moves fluidly between painting, photography and drawing.

With his play between abstraction and figuration, and his combination of elements from high and everyday culture, Condo repudiates genre - defined hierarchies within painting.

Stingel's paintings, however, fall between abstraction and figuration, even between time and space, becoming decoration, painting, architecture all at once, indeed transcending the traditional genre.

Another Karolik donation, in 1947, of American paintings produced between 1815 and 1865, secured numerous works by artists of the Hudson River school and its offshoot Luminism, along with a series of American genre paintings.

As a result, Otero refines his unique visual language by exploring the relationship between representation and abstraction in order to expand the traditional genre of abstract painting.

If Anderson's paintings have contemporary affinities in practices (especially with that of Peter Doig, his former teacher), the theoretical contexts they summon are well - rooted — in particular those teleological forecasts about the relationship between his chosen genres as articulated by critics including Kenneth Clark and Clement Greenberg; the latter wrote, in 1949, of the evolutionary conundrum whereby French painting «was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by its very effort to transcribe visual experience with ever greater fidelity.»

A major contrast between landscape painting in the West and East Asia has been that while in the West until the 19th century it occupied a low position in the accepted hierarchy of genres, in East Asia the classic Chinese mountain - water ink painting was traditionally the most prestigious form of visual art.

The first of these: American Encounters: Genre Painting and Everyday Life, is the second exhibition in a four - year partnership between Crystal Bridges; the musée du Louvre in Paris; the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA; and the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Not wedded to a particular genre, Bickerton moves between sculpture, photo - realistic painting, photography, and mixed media constructions.

As my previous body of work involved the emotional dynamic between 2/3 people in any given space I decided that the most powerful image here which also moved the Nude genre of painting further, was to paint live in strip clubs with the visual presence of the patron, the male, the male gaze included in the dynamic of each painting.

Currently fusing fluid sketching and charcoal work styles from his past with spray paint and distress techniques that he has developed over the years, the viewer will notice major differences in genre between the 2009 and 2010 works: while the current pieces dive into a more figurative and abstract realm, the 2009 series of paintings «With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility» focuses more on a comic - themed visualization of the all - too - human defects of character, faulty perception, and skewed sense of humor.

Side by side, these works embody a conversation about the medium of painting and it's genres, as well as the relationship between craft and fine art.

In between each painting he has hung framed pages torn from genre fiction that have passages about artists.

Q. What's the difference between a landscape and a genre painting?

Known internationally for his unique style of painting that owes allegiance to abstract expressionism and color field genres, his canvases live on the border between image and abstraction.

His inventive use of discarded materials and appropriated images eviscerated distinctions between medium and genre, abstraction and representation, while his «flatbed picture plane,» which absorbed found objects into the realm of paintings, forever changed the relationship between artwork and viewer.