Sentences with phrase «century academic traditions»

Rodin: The Human Experience SUArt Galleries August 16 through November 18, 2018 This exhibition presents 32 figures in bronze by Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917), the French sculptor who left behind 19th century academic traditions to focus on conveying the passion and vitality of the human spirit.

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As with most academic traditions, and especially those that are viewed as soft, there are orthodoxies and fashions, and sometimes sudden turns, that are conventionally described — following Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions of almost half a century ago — as paradigm shifts....

Such a concept is characteristic of the academic tradition of Western Europe; one might be bold enough to add, characteristic particularly of nineteenth - century Western Europe.

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.

Where an early generation of artists had portrayed the romantic lure of the American Southwest during the nineteenth - century using European Academic painting traditions to represent the environment and inhabitants of the region as exotic, Modern artists took a very different approach.

This was equally true at the start of the 20th century, when those heroic modern masters Matisse and Picasso began to grapple with the great Western tradition and replace academic ideas of beauty with a revolutionary and, at times, shocking new reality.

The ever - shifting series of images in Thomas's dynamic video include many historical referents such as classicizing, white women of the French academic tradition and pictures of Sarah Baartman, so - called «Hottentot Venus,» a South African woman who was exhibited in Europe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.