Sentences with phrase «by folk traditions»

Inspired by the folk traditions of woodworking, contrasting patterns are carved into this mouthblown glass vase and solid ash base.

Inhabiting liminal spaces heralded as much by surrealism as by folk traditions, Nordström looks to the cultural, psychological and physical margins of society.

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Rather, her point is that the twentieth century might have been more humane if the ideologues of the nineteenth century had their sledgehammer theories softened, perhaps even overturned, by the twisting, evasive, allusive verbal ambiance of Yiddish, a folk tradition of language that testifies to the uncertainties and fragilities of life.

SO the next time your sitting in a circle listening to some bad version of 60's folk music and beating your drum stop for a minute and ask yourself where did this all come from, certainly not from centuries of passing down religious traditions and «correct» teachings originally given to us by God.

Surrounded by the thousands of musicians who play on our stages, climb our steps, jam in our lobbies, we come from something larger - a rich history, an evolving tradition, a living culture of folks from around Chicago and the world coming together to create music.

Representative of American folk traditions about butterfat is this passage from «Neighbor Rosicky», by American author Willa Cather: [The Rosickys] had been at one accord not to hurry through life, not to be always skimping and saving.

Inspired by nature and folk traditions, both collections feature earrings, bracelets, necklaces, and rings that are hand - made using sterling silver, bronze, brass with occasional pops of gold.

The (probably) most pessimistic signal is that in the re-telling of the evening we see that Llewyn is followed on stage by a young Bob Dylan — the artist who, arguably more than any other, swept away the classic folk tradition by writing and performing his own songs.

This worksheet teaches about the Mexican tradition of mariachi music, which is Mexican folk music often sung by small bands of musicians.

Things to do: Embrace Argentinian heritage and traditions while learning about the life of gauchos, watching unique folk performances or trying your hand at being a horse - whispered, aided by a trained equestrian.

It combines the carnival concept with Junkaroo, an African - derived folk tradition in the Bahamas that involves gyrating performances by costumed musicians and dancers.

After encountering a rare collection of collages by the artist Harry Smith, Winters became interested in the broader territories and geometries suggested by Smith and his exploration of folk traditions.

«Schoolteacher,» a 1935 sculpture by William Edmondson (below), represents an impressive fusion of folk and modern traditions by an artist not previously represented in the collection.

Filling the gap between waning aristocratic traditions and the equally moribund folk arts of the preindustrial era, mass culture was said to be driven purely by the profit motive.

His work is influenced by religious art and metaphysics, and he blends the imaginative and phantasy elements of his artistic process with with Western religion and European folk traditions, a combination that aims to give a mythic dimension and an almost archetypal significance.

This piece, a beautifully lyrical scene steeped in the religious and folk traditions of her adopted Mexico, is an exceptional opportunity to collect work by the artist, who passed away in 2011.

Roberta Smith of The Times, who often singles out new work touched by native traditions, has called for fully integrating folk art and Americana into museum displays of past decades, much as another show has claimed outsider art in Switzerland as an inspiration for Abstract Expressionism.

Where a broad narrative traditionally underpinned each project, recent works have shifted to be driven by an exploration of their materiality and the creative process through his interest in modernism and its aesthetic relationship to tribal and folk arts traditions.

This work is related to other works like Condition 1 and Condition 2 of 2012, in which Zheng adds to his repertoire of mark making techniques and image sources by reaching into folk traditions that are fading from the contemporary Chinese consciousness.

The show features works informed by the Indian folk traditions the artists encountered during residencies at the Sanskriti Foundation in Delhi in 2014.»

Traveled to: Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama, January 29 — February 16, 1992; Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, February 22 — March 29, 1992; The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, April 4 — May 17, 1992; Kochi Prefecture Museum of Folk Art, May 23 — June 17, 1992 (Catalogue) The Portrait Tradition: Master Printmakers, Pace Editions, New York, October 25 — November 30, 1991 Accent on Paper: 15 Years at Dieu Donné Papermill, Lintas: Worldwide, New York, October 2, 1991 — January 10, 1992 Graphicstudio: Contemporary Art from the Collaborative Workshop at the University of South Florida, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., September 15, 1991 — January 5, 1992 (Catalogue) Departures: Photography 1923 — 1990 (organized by Independent Curators Incorporated, New York), Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, September 12 — October 20, 1991.

Linzy's historicized imagery also follows the (grimmer) tradition of the vintage techniques and folk tales and the racist «darkie» popular references appropriated by younger African - American artists Kara Walker (1969) and Michael Ray Charles (1967), respectively.

By applying tools and techniques from handicraft traditions to contemporary designs, he blurs the line between the traditional categories of fine and folk art.

Their piece The Dragon of Profit and Private Ownership (2017) commissioned for the festival is a similarly playful take on the visual culture of protest and folk traditions, inspired by a Northumbrian miners» banner design from 1924 (the dragon emerged as a motif in 19th - century radical pamphlets).

The group show, whose title is inspired by a song from the 1970s funk band the Ohio Players, looks at issues of society, sexuality and black womanhood — in works that are variously inspired by folk art traditions, Afro - Caribbean folklore and myriad other artistic practices.

Inspired by commercial advertising, folk art, and decorative traditions, Lari Pittman's...

Inspired by commercial advertising, folk art, and decorative traditions, Lari Pittman's meticulously layered paintings transform pattern and signage into...

The folk voices, similarly conjuring a tradition deeply affected by the doctrines of the People's Republic, belong to the choral group Jarzebina from the village Kocudza, one of the most recognized regional folk ensembles in Poland.

These city paintings, many of them of the city's main bridges, share commonalities with the funky return to representation and figuration via a meld of loose abstract expressionist brush strokes and paint application — lots of scumbling and blobs of paint — and a sort of ecstatic folk primitivism adopted by his contemporary and friends in New York in the mid to late 50s, such as Red Grooms, Robert Beauchamp, Gandy Brodie, Mimi Gross, Jan Müller, and Claes Oldenburg (with Eva Hesse picking up the tradition in the mid-60s).

Influenced by the folk aesthetics and history of her surroundings, Norton's work employs music, video, mixed media, and performance as her country - music alter ego Ninnie, in a manner that combines feminist thought with local and vernacular imagery inspired by the cultural traditions of the rural South and specifically of her native Kentucky.