Sentences with phrase «different visual tradition»
And if Guston's fascination with the poetry of D. H. Lawrence, W. B. Yeats, and some other Italian and American writers links him to modernism, the political engagement of his figurative paintings — so utterly relevant right now — marks his entry into a later, very different visual tradition.
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«Visitors to Bouquets: French Still - Life Painting from Chardin to Matisse will appreciate not only the sheer visual splendor of the works on display, but also the discovery of a clear artistic dialogue among artists of different generations working in the floral still - life tradition,» said Heather MacDonald, the DMA's Lillian and James H. Clark Associate Curator of European Art, who is the exhibition co-curator.
These figures, though squarely centered in his paintings, often have the appearance of being part of still lifes: collaged, anachronistic elements belonging to different time zones and eras offer a contemporary take on the storied tradition of visual and psychological pastiche.
According to the gallery, her work is «dense with visual complexity that reflects an awareness of a vast array of both formal and inherited traditions while exploring their aesthetic, sensual, and visual content to assert a different declaration, and a new way of making art.»
The visual comparisons are with a different tradition: the lugubrious, also surreal and fantastical painters of northern Europe and America.
Cao's art bridges into visual arts with the use of popular culture and shifts through different subcultures and phenomenon to create the surreal landscapes that she is most known for — actors incased in Burberry behaving like dogs reenact a hysteric day in the office, ordinary people dancing to hip - hop on the street, people dressed in Chinese shopping bags and a stage production incorporating Guangzhou's street youths are just a few examples of using the city's everyday life to analyze and render the current social situation where traditions and new influences are constantly in conflict.