Sentences with phrase «century painting links»

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A selection of 21st - century objects, such as Richard Lee's Sinking and Burning (2005), a cabinet with reverse glass painting, also reveals unexpected links between historic and contemporary American art.

Drawing from the symbolism attached to skulls and their emblematic links to the inevitability of death, Life is Only One makes allusions to Dutch memento mori paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries and incites emotions of pain, loneliness, helplessness and despair.

Working in a style that links mystery, irony, and realism, Derrick Guild channels the Dutch Rococo and seventeenth century Spanish painting in contemporary depictions of everyday objects isolated on dark backgrounds.

One of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, and a pivotal figure linking American Impressionism and Abstract Expressionism, Milton Avery is celebrated for his luminous paintings of landscapes, figures and still lifes, which balance distillation of form with free, vigorous brushwork and lyrical colour.

This large - scale retrospective — the artist's second posthumous exhibition in India — of 135 drawings, paintings, and photographs by Karachi - born Nasreen Mohamedi (1937 — 1990) stands out among a trio of shows the museum has ambitiously organized to explore links among artwork by women of South Asian descent over the last century.

A link between Eastern and Western sensibilities, her works are successful for the subtle way she changes ab - ex tradition, and is emblematic of painting in the 21st century.

Vanitas is a term that is traditionally associated with the late 16th and early 17th century still live paintings, but has become more generally linked to any type of creative discipline that meditates on the ephemeral character of earthly pleasures and worldly accomplishments.

Kuspit writes that «It seems possible to link Jukuchu's 18th - century Japanese nature paintings to 19th - century European paintings romanticizing nature... But European paintings that «romanticize» nature, whether as ingratiatingly idyllic or in stormy action, don't fully enlighten us about the truth of nature as Jukuchu's paintings do, however fewer the details of nature on which they focus, not to say meditate.

Oh's painted works have a very distinctive all - overness to it, a quality that links very much to the Abstract Expressionist movement that emerged in the 20th Century.

The family firm had strong links with Paris and every year presented a major show of impressionist, post-impressionist and early 20th - century French painting.

Like all of Wentworth's work, they are about the combination of the desirable and the precarious, and to this extent, one can find a correlation between this show and the vanitas paintings of the 17th century which depicted objects that were loaded with symbolism linked to our human condition.

Jonathan Jones: With his unusual mastery of oil paints, this 15th - century artist might be the missing link between the movement's Italian and Flemish schools

One could also link her art to the opposing convention of colorito, a term usually applied to 16th - century Venetian painting in which color is employed in a dominant manner, for sensual expressive purposes and as an important compositional element.

1 «Superflat» is a word coined by artist Takashi Murakami to link two - dimensionality in traditional Japanese paintings, known as Nihonga, from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries with the flatness in contemporary Japanese visual art and animation.

Though the connection between, say, Catholicism and Italian painting in the 16th century is clear, such links are not as trustworthy in the modern era.

Inspired by pioneers like John Constable (1776 - 1837) and Richard Parkes Bonington (1802 - 28) from the school of English landscape painting, as well as Theodore Rousseau (1812 - 67) and Jean - Francois Millet (1814 - 75), and initially linked with the Naturalist and Realist movements, which were themselves a reaction to the social changes caused by the Industrial Revolution, the principles of plein - air art later formed the core of Impressionism - specifically Impressionist landscape painting - as practised by Monet (1840 - 1926) during the last 30 years of the century.

Rio Nakano's linked emphasizes the idea of Japanese traditional scroll painting of «choju - giga,» historical scrolls created in 12th century in Japan and often referred as animal - person caricatures.

Louis's Veil paintings occupy a pivotal place in twentieth century art, providing a crucial link between Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism.

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.

Although The Orchard can not be identified with an accurate date, the loose brushwork links this painting with painting styles of American Impressionism popular in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century.

Louis's Veil paintings occupy a pivotal place in twentieth - century - art, providing a crucial link between Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism.