Sentences with phrase «contemporary eye»

These works take the classical mediums of painting and dance and present them with the inner emotion and knowledge of a dancer as well as a fresh contemporary eye of an artist.

We were reading these menus with a very contemporary eye through eyes of a major hunger crisis.

(Jewison obviously strained to keep things visually interesting in his film, employing a busy split - screen technique that appears terribly dated through contemporary eyes.)

Granted none of it will shock contemporary eyes.

The fair has also joined forces for the second year running with the Art Fund Curators Programme and London's National Gallery to bring 20 museum curators — half from the UK and half from overseas — for a one - day conference and networking event on 5 October that this year focuses on how to turn contemporary eyes to Dutch Old Masters.

«A nostalgic exhibition, this collection of works looks back to the traditions of the medium with an incredibly contemporary eye.»

September 27 - 28 Ann Agee, long known as a figurative ceramicist, explores the intersection of domestic space and art production, merging decorative and fine arts and playing with historical conventions of art as seen through contemporary eyes.

It has a melodramatic, overwrought tone, some of the acting (especially by Bill Travers) is really bad, & despite the desire to decry racism, some scenes do have a racist edge the the contemporary eye.

To contemporary eyes, nothing seems small about 1958 Chevrolets.

From the contemporary EYE Filmmuseum to the hip NDSM wharf, Amsterdam - Noord attracts young professionals and families offering affordable accommodation and relief from the hectic city life.

But despite nothing being particularly bad about it, Super Mario Land doesn't feature any elements that weren't considerably bettered by Mario games before and since, leaving it feeling like Mario's most mediocre moment to contemporary eyes.

Painting in a style that combines American realism with Appropriation Art, she brings a contemporary eye to technologies from the 1950s,»60s, and»70s.

Many of the works in this show at first glance may not seem explicitly radical or provocative to our contemporary eyes, yet each piece was indeed groundbreaking.

To contemporary eyes, their pictorial strength is so self - evident, so enduringly fresh, you have to chuckle at those pundits who a half - century ago deemed Post Painterly Abstraction (both the style and the exhibition) a failed «rescue action for quality» against the «turgidities» of certain kinds of abstraction on the one hand and the vapidity of «newfangled art» on the other.

Early experiments in dripping and blotting will look dated (or easy) to contemporary eyes, but not so the pictorial freedom it allowed Miró, Masson, Arshile Gorky, Matta, Pollock, Richard Pousette - Dart, and, albeit through a long and tortuous process, Mark Rothko.

I think it's hard to know whether Fine's work really would have seemed derivative when she was making it, or whether it merely looks derivative in retrospect simply because our contemporary eyes are so familiar with the painting of her more famous colleagues.

It also illuminates lesser - known periods within Rauschenberg's career, including his work of the early 1950s and that from the late 1960s onward, now compelling and prescient to contemporary eyes.

As in previous years, our decision to concentrate on works with obvious appeal to the contemporary eye has paid off.»

At the same time, the exhibition explores lesser - known periods within his career, including his work of the early «50s and the late «60s, which is increasingly compelling and prescient to contemporary eyes.

Ko plays on the sophistication of the contemporary eye that can discern CGI in a nanosecond.

The spirit of pilgrimage is evoked in a striking new performance, Songs of the Wanderers, which looks at tradition through contemporary eyes.

There, «Islamic Monuments of India» (2/9 — 13) was an exhibition of photographs by Benoy K. Behl and Abhinav Atris, while «The Lord Buddha Through Contemporary Eyes» (8/21 — 26) showcased paintings by Sri Lankan artists selected from open - call submissions.

«The notion of looking at any art from any period through contemporary eyes is incredibly relevant,» said Sheena Wagstaff, head of the modern and contemporary art department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a curator of «Unfinished.»

In more cryptic, abstract paintings than the ones painted in Maine, he had memorialized the young Prussian lieutenant Karl von Freyburg in Germany, with whom he was in love and who would die in World War I. His Maine figurative paintings and drawings depict brawny loggers and men in swimsuits, reflecting what to a contemporary eye is clearly homoeroticism, though apparently it was not construed as such when Hartley made the paintings.

Thomas» choice to emphasize Bedou's image of the crowds focuses a contemporary eye on ways in which freedom is understood and invites the viewer to reconsider a moment from over a hundred years ago through a present - day lens.

While the artist is inspired by classical works like Augustus of Primaporta, the Artemision Bronze, the Venus de Milo or Winged Victory, to contemporary eyes the works evoke perhaps a sagging Koons balloon sculpture, or to a non art person, a birthday array the morning after.

Félix Vallotton (1865 — 1925) is more than ever in the contemporary eye.

To the contemporary eye, it looks pretty fresh as is.

Beyond their pictorial candor and stark naturalism, what makes these paintings so appealing to the contemporary eye is the way their boldly delineated forms create an abstract structure built from powerful interlocking shapes.

The overall mood is natural, but styled with a contemporary eye.