Sentences with phrase «classical painting genres»

Not exact matches

Sikander's pioneering practice takes classical Indo - Persian miniature painting as its point of departure and challenges the strict formal tropes of the genre by experimenting with scale and various forms of new media.

On the other hand, the classical works included in the exhibition — dating from 1970 — 80 — are some of the most superbly wrought paintings in this genre that can be found anywhere.

Although her work results from deep observations of the history of painting — from Velasquez, Rembrandt, Caravaggio and Cezanne among others — her personal vision transcends classical notions of genre and narrative as she invites viewers into a delicious domain of confident brush strokes with a new aesthetic.

Writing on Owens» navigation between genres as diverse as folk, conceptual, and classical painting, Paul Schimmel said, «Owens has found a language that questions the nature of painting while embracing its multifarious manifestations.»

Trained in East Germany in the classical art of realist painting, Richter's images have the quiet stillness of European masterworks, taking in genres such as the still life, landscape and portraiture, but of contemporary subjects that are often rendered like a slightly out of focus photograph.

Rooted in classical Indo - Persian miniature portraiture painting, Shahzia Sikander's artistic practice expands the strict formal tropes of the genre through experimenting with scale and new media.

Her figurative paintings use traditional art - historical genres (the still life, the formal portrait, depictions of classical statuary) to explore people and objects that no longer have the fixed representational or symbolic status that allowed those genres to operate.

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

Morton reviews works from Gérôme's entire career - the early «Néo - Grec» paintings with references to classical antiquity, historical scenes, Orientalist genre paintings, and his late focus on sculpture - to make the case for his spectacular art.

Cezanne adopted a rigorous classical approach to plein - air painting; Gauguin used rich colours but preferred indoor studio painting; Van Gogh painted outdoors but more to express his inner emotions than capture nature; while Toulouse - Lautrec specialized in indoor genre scenes.

This, combined with constant inspiration drawn from classical comic book imagery, pop art and American cinema (especially the horror genre), as well as the aesthetic of classic prints (Durer, Goya, Daumier, Kathe Kollwitz, etc.), creates Hancock's unique approach to collaged painting.

Shirana Shahbazi makes photographs in classical art - historical genres, including portraiture, still life, and landscape, often translating and repeating her images in different mediums: hand - knotted carpets, for instance, and photorealistic billboards painted by artisans hired in her native Iran.

In recent years, Urs Fischer has been exploring the genres of classical art history (still lifes, portraits, nudes, landscapes, and interiors) at the intersection with everyday life in cast sculptures and assemblages, paintings, digital montages, spatial installations, mutating or kinetic objects, and texts.

This was considered the lowest kind of painting by the Academy, according to its Hierarchy of Genres, which preferred grand paintings with classical or historical significance.

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 diletpainting 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 diletPainting» encountered classical genre painting or staged diletpainting or staged dilettantism.

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