Sentences with phrase «contemporary photographic genre»

Not exact matches

A pivotal figure in contemporary art from the early 1970s until his untimely death in 2013, Sekula continuously questioned the function of the documentary genre and the consequences of global capitalism through his critical writings, photographic installations, videos, and films.

In the wide range of art the gallery offers, subjects range from water and beach scenes, boats, landscape, flower arrangements, graphic paintings of musicians, fifties photographic paintings, birds, fish, traditional still life, figure painting, portraits and trees, covering every major contemporary figurative category and genre.

With incisiveness, ingenuity, and humor, Rauschenberg changed the course of art history by establishing new genres of sculpture — found object, environmental, theatrical, photographic, and filmic — by including a wide range of contemporary subjects, and by using non-fine art materials along with conventional ones.

Placing emphasis on stylistic elements instead of the overarching photographic medium, the contemporary collection cites how the conventions of classic genres, such as portraiture, landscapes and architectural, are developed through new practice.