Sentences with phrase «controlled artistic tradition»

he initially began working with gunpowder to foster spontaneity and confront the suppression that he felt from the controlled artistic tradition and social climate in china at the time.

Accomplished in a variety of media, Cai began using gunpowder in his work to foster spontaneity and confront the controlled artistic tradition and social climate in China.

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The reference to mythology as a source of inspiration; using abstract composition as a way to evoke literary and lyrical stories; the control of the design so as to achieve a delicate balance between the freshness of gestural strokes and the clearness of drawing; the reference to the tradition of art history as an endless process of acknowledgment of the meaning of artistic practice; the attention paid to the sign itself as a multi-linguistic mark of the artist's expression; these are all constant features of Twombly's work, and have been since the very beginning of his career in the late 1940s.