Sentences with phrase «folks traditions»

These painted textiles unite African - American folk traditions and historically «feminine» domestic art forms.

During this evening of entertainment, you'll get the chance to experience Irish hospitality in the best folk tradition.

Although deeply rooted in African - American folk traditions of the South, he also engaged with the history of canonical art.

It combines the carnival concept with Junkaroo, an African - derived folk tradition in the Bahamas that involves gyrating performances by costumed musicians and dancers.

Inhabiting liminal spaces heralded as much by surrealism as by folk traditions, Nordström looks to the cultural, psychological and physical margins of society.

Armed with this background (though not unwilling to play along with the Yanquis» desire to see him as an embodiment of Indian folk traditions), Tamayo set about visiting all the museums in New York and gorging on classic European and modern art.

The gorgeous interior décor of the villa, including original paintings and statuary, evoke Mexican folk traditions with exquisite, contemporary style.

In his Chinese Style Blessing series Zheng reaches into folk traditions to add to his repertoire of mark making techniques and image sources.

Taking inspiration from the Philippine weaving and the Jewish folk traditions of her ancestors, along with traditional landscape painting techniques from her academic training, she interweaves image with refuse in order to reveal seamless yet textured transcultural contradictions.

Classic folk traditions of Mexico fill South Philly streets for El Carnaval de Puebla, a giant celebration of Mexican culture on Sunday, April 29.

I wrote new themes, and introduced to the music exotic instrumentation and languages from various Northern European folk traditions,» he said.

They schooled me according to a black folk tradition that taught that trouble doesn't last always, that the weak can gain victory over the strong (given the right planning), that God is at the helm of human history and that the best standard of excellence is a spiritual relation to life obtained in one's prayerful relation to God.

He kept the old chants, and used the Saxon folk tradition.

The plant is also used topically to treat skin conditions such as eczema, and folk traditions claim it can be used as a hangover cure and aphrodisiac, although little scientific evidence exists to support such uses.

October 7, 2015 • Sample the musically omnivorous cellist's wide - ranging work — from J.S. Bach to modern invocations of ancient folk traditions.

Through these experiences, students have engaged in drawing portraits, shaping clay tiles, learning dances from world folk traditions, making books, writing poetry, and interpreting and expressing poetry.

One of Louisville's most anticipated events, the Kentucky Bluegrass Music Festival celebrates one of the greatest American folk traditions over three days each September.

Along the way you'll delve into Ukraine's colorful folk traditions, hearty cuisine and a history that includes Greek, Mongol, Tatar, Ottoman, Cossack, Jewish, and Russian chapters.

South Philadelphia's vibrant pre-Cinco de Mayo procession El Carnaval de Puebla showcases folk traditions from the Mexican state (which is the home of many Philadelphians) through a colorful parade and street fair featuring dancers in ornate costumes and oversized masks representing historical figures and folk dramas.

Larrikinism, quoting Wikipedia, is «the name given to the Australian folk tradition of irreverence, mockery of authority and disregard for rigid norms of propriety.

His vernacular is eminently materialist and deeply rooted in a sense of place, celebrating the incidental beauty of Korean folk traditions.

At this time folk traditions flourished in the worker's inns, taverns and shebeens around the city's Bridgegate, Saltmarket and Gallowgate — where bars like The Victoria and The Scotia are still active gathering places for folk singers and musicians today.

Consider, then, the distinct senses of folk tradition for Domenico Zindato and Martin Thompson.

It is believed by some that the mythical «flying carpet» of Central folk tradition stems from the use of Harmel (Perganum Harmala) or Syrian Rue, a psychoactive plant, in the red dye found in ancient weavings.

Tereza Bušková, who worked closely with Zabludowicz Collection on our 2009 exhibition A Tradition I Do Not Mean To Break, will present Baked Woman of Doubice, 2012, a film that distills Czech folk traditions into a fictitious baking ritual celebrating fertility and motherhood.

The work is rooted in a multi-disciplinary approach that is as faceted in the mediums employed as in the array of art historical, literary and folk tradition references.

Other artists even united a Pop aesthetic with their own folk traditions, bringing together contemporary imagery with local practices.

The Romanian - born artist immigrated to the United States in the late 1990s, but many of the narrative facets of her upbringing — from occult folk traditions to blundering nationalist propaganda — resonate throughout her work.

Steeped in German folk tradition, the stag assumes particular meaning in Beuys» work as a spiritual being, an «accompanier of the soul» in Celtic mythology and a signifier of the crucified Christ.

Brought up on film sets (her mother is an Oscar - winning production designer), and studying both anthropology and fine art at university, Chetwynd moves easily between folk traditions, sci - fi, 60s Happenings and contemporary moral issues.

Drawing on the visual language of architecture and functional design, Djordjadze creates sculptural environments that foreground the lasting legacy of Modernism while evoking the vernacular and folk traditions native to the Caucasus region in the Republic of Georgia.

Vernacular craft processes and folk traditions in combination with digital technologies raise socio - economic questions about women's labor and other cultural conceits.

The decorative elements were a mix of Christianity and Mexican folk traditions.

From holiday - themed plastic tablecloths to dried paint shreds and found objects, Hoffman takes inspiration from Chinese landscape and Hudson River School painting, as well as the Philippine weaving and Jewish folk traditions of her ancestors.

The (probably) most pessimistic signal is that in the re-telling of the evening we see that Llewyn is followed on stage by a young Bob Dylan — the artist who, arguably more than any other, swept away the classic folk tradition by writing and performing his own songs.

His work is influenced by religious art and metaphysics, and he blends the imaginative and phantasy elements of his artistic process with with Western religion and European folk traditions, a combination that aims to give a mythic dimension and an almost archetypal significance.

This work is related to other works like Condition 1 and Condition 2 of 2012, in which Zheng adds to his repertoire of mark making techniques and image sources by reaching into folk traditions that are fading from the contemporary Chinese consciousness.

Early experiences as a librarian and bookbinder contributed to her encyclopedic knowledge of signs, drawn from American folk tradition, printmaking, and letterpress.

Brooklyn - based artist Arthur Simms (b. 1961) fuses modernist assemblage with folk traditions of African and Afro - Atlantic object - making in his near - abstract sculptures.

The American Folk Tradition is not evidence of Paul Bunyan.

The American folk tradition is not evidence of Paul Bunyan.

Rather, her point is that the twentieth century might have been more humane if the ideologues of the nineteenth century had their sledgehammer theories softened, perhaps even overturned, by the twisting, evasive, allusive verbal ambiance of Yiddish, a folk tradition of language that testifies to the uncertainties and fragilities of life.

About Site - Damh the Bard — is a modern - day Bard whose spirituality and love of folk tradition is expressed through his pagan music, storytelling and poetry.