Sentences with word «classicism»

Frowned upon by generations of art historians as the last expression of irrationality (as opposed to perfect perspective) the primitive painters played a pivotal role in bridging Medieval styles with the resurgence of classicism characteristic of Renaissance artists and architects.

Her canvases fuse a sense of classicism with sculptural elements and a post-internet awareness of the ideas of surface, texture and language.

It was positioned as a counterpoint to the rational man that marked the period of Classicism in which clear forms and order were an ideal.

Inspired by classicism, music and contemporary art, each design displays a balance of strength and sensitivity, often with a raw element.

While mostly avoiding overt depictions of homosexuality, the artworks repurpose visual styles and content from Classicism to produce sexually charged, highly emotional gay imagery.

Helen Lundeberg (1908 — 1999) co-founded the New Classicism movement with Lorser Feitelson in 1934.

The vibrant colour contrasts that underlie the golden serenity of Severini's Paysage à Civray (Vienne)(1908), displayed on the wall facing the entrance to the exhibition, engage the viewer immediately in the dialogue between classicism and abstraction that the exhibition seeks to promote.

This uniquely Spanish architecture was widely used in public buildings of post-war Spain and is rooted in international classicism as exemplified by Albert Speer or Mussolini's Esposizione Universale Roma.

In the first podcast produced on the occasion of the exhibition Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500 - 1800, Grasselli talks to host Barbara Tempchin about delicate, rare works from the 16th century and extraordinary images of French classicism from the 17th century.

This Catholic classicism embraces the intellectual and spiritual resources of Catholic tradition while keeping clear of Vichy nostalgia or the forced anachronism that everywhere limits the influence of «traditionalism.»

Change classicism for modernism and you will find several places that will exceed your romantic expectations.

Evoking formal classicism, these beautifully elegant and technically masterful compositions immerse and seduce the eye.

She co-founded the movement Subjective Classicism, also known as Post Surrealism, before becoming an integral part of the west coast abstract circle.

Of special note are two concurrent exhibitions, one by the Romanian artist Geta Brătescu, which in its way shows a variant methodology for combining classicism with cartooning, deploying humor and a stylized visual wit; and another showing never - before seen latter - day works on paper by the iconic Louise Bourgeois.

This visual essay spans more than 2,500 years of art history in an open - ended dialogue with a series of critical texts and interviews with contemporary artists, exploring the possibility of reinventing classicism and arguing for its enduring influence on contemporary art.

They also integrated porticoes, pediments and colonnades influenced by Beaux Arts classicism as well.

It is about classicism and elegance - with a hint of sporty attitude, and is easy to wear: fundamental notions of what the name Givenchy stands for.

The film is rooted in Hollywood classicism, populated with idiosyncratic characters who have plenty of room to speak and interact in between the action / horror set pieces.

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This managed to be at once minimal, grand, eastern and western — in conversation with, but quite different to the baroque classicism of Versailles» architecture and the formal fountains, parterres, topiary, and hedges designed by Le Nôtre.

And she chose not classicism but the Mannerism that followed, much as art today uneasily follows Modernism.

The buildings of John Soane (1753 - 1837), the most original English architect of the period, share many of the characteristics of French Romantic classicism and particularly the taste for simpler forms, but they also owe much to the Picturesque and to Robert Adam's domestic work.

Essays by the curators are included: Addressing the return to Classicism at the end of the 16th, 19th, and 20th centuries, Arkady Ippolitov discusses the obsession that defines both the work of Mapplethorpe and the Mannerists.

Architects who design museums have been retreating from explosive innovation to favor classicism, tranquillity, and a more restrained Modernism.

Using her painting Plant and Animal Analogies as a case study and an ideal, Lundeberg wrote the New Classicism manifesto.

The back room in Benglis's gallery retrospective held more work from her past, mixing classicism and postmodern extravagance.

The ultimate expression of Renaissance classicism and a symbol of Florentine independence, its original location at the entrance to the Palazzo Vecchio in the Piazza della Signoria is occupied today by a plaster copy.

Jesus was portrayed in the naturalistic manner of Hellenistic, pagan classicism.

This is not a plea for a fossilized classicism.

Reformers correctly pointed out that for American civilization to compete in the modern world, it would have to produce scholars, and they understood that the amateurism of clerically controlled classicism provided little room for scholarly specialization.

It was said of a great Russian pianist during the 1940s that she played Bach's Forty - eight Preludes and Fugues, the very acme of a normally sober classicism, with such intensity that critics were moved to ask why: «Because we are at war!»

The last week of fashion month delivered a good mix of French style, refined classicism as well as trendy looks going youthful.

Italian house Valentino anchors its impeccable classicism with all the allure and history of its rich pool of references.

Tea is served, as poised in her hotel suite with ladylike classicism, she wears FLAXELY, a bootie in black suede which criss - crosses its way over the foot and up to the ankle in a perfect slim fit.

Lubitsch's classicism gets continually cracked by the unruliness of the screwball genre and by the caustic thrust of the Billy Wilder - Charles Brackett screenplay

Wanderlust: Rebirth blends classicism and innovation, resulting in a truly excellent cooperative RPG.

What's appealing about Bond is precisely its unhip classicism — its promise of clean, crisp excitement delivered without the interference of whiplash - inducing camera pyrotechnics, attention - deficient editing patterns, gratuitous color tinting and / or ear - splitting rock ballads.

You can feel «The Interpreter» straining toward classicism with every ounce of its strength.

It's confidently shot with an understated classicism and reaches for meaty themes, such as psychoanalysis and healing from trauma, but the second half is punishingly dull, exhausting the goodwill earned by the charming opener.

But perhaps a more appropriate comparison is to the Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini, with whom Güney shares a distinctly anti-Utopian, renegade classicism.

For he was an attorney who not only represented controversial causes and unpopular people, but his approach in the courtroom involved exposing the racism and classicism permeating the legal justice system.

Sound & Vision Adam Pendleton's BAND by Holladay Penick and the Guggenheim's Chaos & Classicism exhibit by Chris Chang

After the melodramatic classicism of Sunset Song, he has retreated into a style that is even more deliberately stiff and alienating than usual.