Sentences with phrase «classical genres»

Her work stems from her long study of art history and classical genres of portraiture, landscape, and still life.

With very different motivations, paintings were produced that sought to examine the painting tradition, the post-war avant - gardes and the artists» own immediate present to equal degrees: masterfully executed «Bad Painting» encountered classical genre painting or staged dilettantism.

But one of the most refreshing aspects of The Last Stand, despite its foreign inflection, is its acceptance of both western and action - film conventions on their own terms, refusing to regard itself as operating outside of or superior to the genre; it aspires instead to simply be a great example of classical genre filmmaking, a modest but nevertheless admirable goal.

Her intertwining of classical genres with cutting edge technologies, such as the combination of live drawing with video environments, offer both lyrical readings and cultural commentary on today's world.

The internationally renowned visual artist and Royal Academician, Tacita Dean, responds to a different classical genre in each of the three venues.

Built of wood scraps, Styrofoam, wire, clay, and other cast - off material, Bhabha's sculptures are exclusively figurative and often take the form of conventional classical genres like portrait busts and walking and reclining figures.

The paintings are a blend of figuration and abstraction that incorporate classical genres including landscape and portraiture, and, for the first time, nod to early 20th century American still lifes and Art Deco motifs.

By rethinking classical genres of group portrayal and landscape the artist introduced a different kind of sensibility in the post-war period.

Thomas» work stems from her study of art history and classical genres of portraiture, landscape and still life.

The film adheres to the dictionary definition of a classical genre without ever attempting to subvert it.

Guests can expect to hear a selection of his favourite songs as the breath - taking surroundings remind them of the unmeasurable influence such cities have had on the classical genre.

Spreading Grand Wings was a favorite of mine from the game and it more than holds up in the classical genre.

Her work stems from her long study of art history and the classical genres of portraiture, landscape, and still like.

In a statement, Thomas's newest dealer described her rhinestone - embellished works thus: «Drawing from a long study of art history and the classical genres of portraiture, landscape and still life, Thomas» political and pop - culturally infused imagery explores constructed notions of identity and the self.

Her work stems from her long study of art history and the classical genres of portraiture, landscape, and still life.

Chelsea, Downtown, Uptown and Brooklyn galleries will feature paintings that embrace multiple perspectives, prints that depict real and imagined domestic narratives, contemporary takes on the classical genre of the still life, and ceramic sculptures that feature contoured figures.

Coinciding with the first ecological movements in the USA and Europe, Land Art was first created in the 1960s by artists working concurrently but sepa - rately from each other, as a critical reaction to the classical genre of sculpture and the commercial art market.

Alice Neel is best known for her portraits which, with their controlled painterly drama and psychological nuance, are complete and polished formal statements in a classical genre.

Her oeuvre stems from her long study of art history and the classical genres of portraiture, landscape, and still life.

The works are polished but purposefully obscured and draw upon the classical genre of landscape painting.

The exhibition Thomas Ruff: Lichten at S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst) in Ghent, Belgium, presents two new series by the German photographer Thomas Ruff: Phg (Photograms, started in 2012), a virtual simulation of the classical genre of the photogram, and Negative (started in 2014), a series in which Ruff reaches back to photography's roots in the 19th century.

Thomas's work stems from her study of art history and the classical genres of portraiture, landscape, and still life, and is inspired by a wide range of sources, from Hudson River School landscapes to Henri Matisse's nudes and Romare Bearden's collages.

Indeed, the three sections of the exhibition, corresponding to the three floors — Painting / Abstraction; Identity / Portrait; Landscape / Still life — remind us, for all of its understanding of the modern, industrial world, representation in grey begins and carries through it, the classical genres of painting.

Opie's choice to create photographs within the classical genre of landscape and focus on the unique qualities or changing conditions of the land allows her to destabilize conventional narratives surrounding the American wilderness, revealing its reality to be as susceptible to change by time and intervention as our own bodies.

For the Standing Still Life series, he takes the classical genre and adds his own twist, including Coca - Cola cans, Lucky Strikes, and other branded items.

Drawing from her long study of art history and the classical genre of portraiture, she has infused her knowledge with more recent influences of popular culture and Pop Art.

Thomas's production is informed by the classical genres of portraiture, landscape, still life, and the female nude.