Sentences with phrase «century aesthetic traditions»

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In fact, Jinchi's mystical aesthetic is traceable to the abstract tradition of qit «a, an Islamic pictorial genre based in the word or verse fragment, and originating in the late 15th century.

Invoking past and future in a critique of the present, these paintings, photographs, sculptures, videos, and other works document observed, current realities while referencing the aesthetic traditions of 19th - and 20th - century art.

Kessler's work since the»80s has been aligned with the tradition of kinetic sculpture and assemblage that emerged in the early twentieth century — such works as Marcel Duchamp's Rotoreliefs, Moholy Nagy's time / space modulators and Yves Tinguely's self - destructive machines are obvious sources — but filtered through the erratic, jury - rigged aesthetic of artists like Robert Rauschenberg and the improvised, makeshift special effects of B - filmmaker Ed Wood.

Writing in the catalogue of the exhibition, Enrique Juncosa, Director of IMMA and curator of the exhibition, describes how Winters, while participating in the aesthetic debates of his time, is also «heir to a tradition that includes some of the greatest names in abstraction — Kandinsky, Jackson Pollock and Cy Twombly — all of whom had a profound impact on 20th - century painting... Winters is without doubt, one of the leading painters maintaining the currency of abstraction after Minimalism.

Drawing from the histories of the Civil Rights and Black Resistance movements, Black aesthetic tradition, and the historical avant - garde, Becoming Imperceptible invites you to reimagine both our history and future and opens up a rigorous conversation about system and form in the European, African, and American avant - gardes of the last century.

In 2005, Olafur and classical violin maker Hans Johannsson began work on the development of a new instrument, with the objective to reinterpret the traditions of 17th - and 18th - century violin making using today's technology and a contemporary visual aesthetic.

What instantly appeals to me about Barber Osgerby's work is that, just as great designers like Dieter Rams, Achille Castiglione and Vico Magistretti followed this same modernist «tradition», each interpreting it to their very personal aesthetic, similarly the design duo are doing the same in our 21st Century.