Sentences with phrase «century landscape tradition»

Kurland's work draws upon the nineteenth - century landscape tradition of depicting a perfect place.

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The tradition of recording landscapes in drawing continues more than a century later with works by Caspar Wolf (1735 — 1798), Adrian Zingg (1734 — 1816), Francis Towne (1739 — 1816), and a delicate and sensitive study of clouds on blue paper by Johann Georg von Dillis (1759 — 1841).

His room of double portraits, by contrast, spoke to that uniquely English 18th century genre, the «conversation piece», and more recent work of course to the landscape tradition exemplified by Turner and Constable.

These abstract qualities generate a form of psychological impressionism, reanimating a more than century - old tradition of landscape painting that insists on temporal and subjective experiences above representational content.

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.

Adnan's unique career — spanning several decades and including as wide a range of media as it does traditions and continents — has made a significant contribution to the artistic, cultural and political landscape of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Best known for large - scale interiors, landscapes, and portraits featuring powerful black figures, Marshall explores narratives of African American history from slave ships to the present and draws upon his deep knowledge of art history from the Renaissance to twentieth - century abstraction, as well as other sources such as the comic book and the muralist tradition.

Evoking the tradition of many of the great landscape painters of the past, including Monet, van Gogh and the 19th century master J. M. W. Turner, Blueberry demonstrates Mitchell's skill at elevating into oil paint the feelings that the landscape evoked in her.

Early Turner is very much of his time: a history and landscape painter in the first half of the 19th century, looking back to the classicism of Claude and the Dutch Golden Age tradition of sombre marine...

Banewl recalls the work of seventeenth — century Dutch painter Aelbert Cuyp, known for his moody, open scenes of cows, as well as that of John Constable and the eighteenth — and nineteenth — century British pastoral landscape tradition.

Giorgio Morandi, Still Life (Natura morta), 1956 Oil on canvas; 9 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches September 16 — December 14, 2008 This is a comprehensive survey — the first in this country — of the career of Giorgio Morandi, one of the greatest 20th - century masters of still - life and landscape painting in the tradition of Chardin and Cézanne.

In response, we constructed and photographed sets illustrating this contradiction, taking inspiration from art historical traditions of 19th century sublime landscape painting and pop culture apocalyptic film.

Thus she harks back on the one hand to the Nordic tradition of landscape painting in the 19th and 20th centuries (Dick Bengtsson, Carl Fredrik Hill, Ernst Josephson, among others), while on the other hand she takes interiors from forensic investigations as her basis and thus allows unvarnished reality to enter her paintings in the form of commonplace rooms.

Yet all seven painters share one common bond — their work is a contemporary interpretation of the centuries - old tradition of American landscape painting.

Her large - scale, bold and colourful abstract works could not seem further from the pale, stormy and subtle paintings by Turner, who was working within the landscape painting tradition almost a century earlier, but the two artists share a connection in their attraction to landscape and nature.

Taking on the artistic traditions of Western nineteenth century painting, Monkman's appropriations of «New World» painting are meticulous recreations of large - scale, sublime landscapes.

Introduced in the Middle East by colonial occupiers in the mid-19th century, photography was, at first, dominated by Western practitioners who focused primarily on antiquities, regional landscape, and exotic traditions.

This richly illustrated book shines a light on the work of Roberto Burle Marx, the Brazilian landscape architect who famously broke with 19th century European tradition in favour of using native fauna and abstract geometric garden design.

They're actually playing out the tradition that was started by the 19th - century landscape painters, [placing] the observer in a position of domination and control of nature, without much thought to the carbon footprint or any of the consequences.»

«American Landscapes: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum,» features landscape paintings that trace the «evolution of American art from its roots in an emerging national landscape tradition to the liberating influences of European modernism» — the progression from the 19th - century Hudson River School to the present.

Conscious of the nineteenth - century German tradition of romantic landscape painting, Hütte depends upon compositional and structural devices, whilst refuting its tradition of emotional excess and self - conscious pathos.

But she is wrestling not so much with the long dead 19th - century painter Frederic Edwin Church, who did a great deal to shape a certain vaunted tradition of American landscape painting, as with the ideologies that Church championed.

His work, on view at Andrew Edlin Gallery, reflects Mexican folk art traditions within the 20th - century landscape and can safely be considered what is now (often erroneously) referred to as outsider art.

Through Beaumont, Smith, and Farington, he became familiar with the European tradition of landscape painting, particularly the works of the French master Claude Lorrain (1600 - 82) and the Dutch painters of the 17th century, such as like Aelbert Cuyp (1620 - 1691) and Jacob van Ruisdael (1628 — 1682).

decades of the twentieth century, such as John Marin, John Sloan, and Ernest Lawson, continued a landscape tradition that expanded to include urban settings.

Fergus Hare can without a doubt be seen in a tradition of Great British landscape painting, bringing the genre into the 21st century while referencing and drawing inspiration from the past and future.

Jean - Baptiste - Corot and the Barbizon School helped to establish a French landscape tradition in the 19th century.

They reflect an interest in nineteenth century romantic painting, in abstract expressionism, in Chinese landscape painting, and in the Chinese tradition of so - called «flung ink painting.»

In the absence of established traditions of history and religious painting, landscape painting flourished as the principal platform for nationalist rhetoric in 19th - century America.

Danube school, German Donauschule, a tradition of landscape painting that developed in the region of the Danube River valley in the early years of the 16th century.

Davenport's images recall the romantic landscape tradition of nineteen century artists such as Casper David Friedrich, Yet whereas that tradition grants the spectator a sense of absorptive repose and visual mastery, the impeding mishaps of Accident Prone produce a sense of anxiety and uncanny humor.

Jurney's work is firmly rooted in the great landscape tradition, stretching from Dutch 17th century painting through the Barbizon and Hudson River Schools, to late 19th and early 20th century French and American impressionism.

By the eighth century there were established traditions of landscape treatment.

The catalogue to Soaring Flight: Peter Lanyon's Gliding Paintings gives us a figurative rather than an abstract artist, an isolated last link in a centuries - old landscape tradition.

The use of ink and wash clearly reveals his solid grounding in the centuries - old tradition of Chinese ink landscape painting.

Saturday Lecture Series: Anarchists at the Beach: The Neo-Impressionists in Normandy 2:00 p.m., C3 Theater Join Dr. Heather MacDonald, The DMA Lillian and James H. Clark Associate Curator of European Art, for a discussion of the neo-impressionists» seascapes within the tradition of coastal landscape painting in France during the nineteenth century.

Portrait, landscape and still life defined painting in the Western tradition for hundreds of years before the upsurge of abstraction early in the 20th century.