Contemporary painting is unabashed about borrowing, whether using and referencing elements
form classical painting for design or integrating found materials.
Not exact matches
Meanwhile at the party headquarters of the far right Laos party, sitting under
paintings of
classical Greek scenes, vice-president Georgios Georgiou explains why they left the current governing coalition (
formed under Lucas Papademos last November when the Papandreou government collapsed): «I suggested we leave the coalition... we said not to touch pensions and wages and to get rid of the two million illegal immigrants... you can not have Germans coming in sitting in ministries ordering ministers what to do.»
Both
classical symphonies and abstract expressionist
painting are abstract art
forms, and I have experienced the connection between them intensely since my twenties.
Sikander's pioneering practice takes
classical Indo - Persian miniature
painting as its point of departure and challenges the strict formal tropes of the genre by experimenting with scale and various
forms of new media.
It was also in New York that Thompson quickly arrived at his mature style, taking Dody Müller's advice to heart by reworking the compositions of European Masters such as Piero della Francesca, Nicolas Poussin, and Jacopo Tintoretto into simplified, abstracted
forms painted in threatening and seductive tones that were hot and violent or deep and dark — seizing on the dynamism of these
classical scenes and often transforming them into contemporary allegorical nightmares.
The Kohn Gallery's latest exhibition, Engender, features 17 contemporary artists who are approaching a study of gender binaries through the
classical form of
painting.
HH: My worst nightmare is a Will Cotton
painting showing femininity in some way, but I think somehow John Currin plays with these
classical female
forms and I'm attracted to those
paintings, so I feel like, how do I react to the representation of that?
This large - scale bronze playfully casts the
classical female figure, reimagined in Giorgio de Chirico's surreal
paintings, as if she is made of crudely carved polystyrene, further debunking the fetishized art historical
form.
In an interview with Artspace, Indiana notes that he began to combine his graphic text
painting with
classical sculptural
forms once he left his urban environs: «How could I resist?
Additionally, the complex network of lines in a Pollock or a de Kooning, however chaotic they may seem at first glance,
form a perfectly enclosed system, one that is not inconsistent with the compositional history of
classical European
painting.
Foreboding and violent, these large - scale
paintings skillfully employ
classical techniques to render writhing animal
forms, snarling teeth and immense physical strength.
Exploring the very nature of
painting, both as a
form of a visual language and a vehicle of mere expression, Howard Hodgkin rejected any
classical and modern art canons.
The Neoclassicists, under Étienne - Jean Delécluze defended the
classical ideal and preferred carefully finished
form in
paintings.
Several of Zefeldt's
paintings incorporate «portraits» of
classical sculpture heads repeated one by one on the canvas, aligning them in a circle as well as placing more of them within the circle where eyes, a nose and a mouth would be — ultimately
forming a face.
From 1976, Twombly again produced sculptures, lightly
painted in white, suggestive of
Classical forms.
Entitled Versus, the new exhibition from the Spanish duo features
paintings, drawings, and sculptures that
form a cohesive body of work showcasing their signature combination of
classical art and elements of graffiti culture.
Virginia Jaramillo's meticulously
formed abstract pulp
paintings draw on a rich variety of sources spanning history and crossing cultures, from pre-Hispanic civilisation to
classical geometry.
Her abstract
paintings on canvas and paper employ gestural mark - making and colors that are influenced by the palette and
forms of the Chilean landscape, the country's pre-historic rock art, and its
classical music.
These
paintings from 1962 and 1963 radiate a symmetrical serenity in their velvety colors,
classical forms that speak to the art of ancient Greece and Egypt, and their interlocking patterns that evoke Moorish tile decorations.
French street artist Nadège Dauvergne is about to take her wonderful creations,
formed from a hybrid of
classical painting and street art, to Le Cabinet d'Amateur in Paris.
With
classical restraint, Robert Mangold translates the most basic of formal elements — shape, line, and color — into
paintings, prints, and drawings whose simplicity of
form expresses complex ideas.
With
classical restraint, Mangold translates the most basic of formal elements — shape, line, and color — into
paintings, prints, and drawings whose simplicity of
form expresses complex ideas.
Best known for his monumental black -
painted steel sculptures composed of complex arrangements and combinations of
classical geometric
forms, Tony Smith would often make smaller bronze versions of his large - scale outdoor sculptures.
The narrative of An Answer, begins with myths of
classical antiquity, moves towards Renaissance intellectual history, modernity, and, ends finally, with an apocalyptic time beyond our time where that dripping
paint has become the
form of trees and archways.
After primitive
forms of cave
painting, figurine sculptures and other types of ancient art, there occured the golden era of Greek art and other schools of
Classical Antiquity.
As dance moved away from the
classical forms of ballet and its codified notation system for choreography, dance, like abstract
painting, came to emphasise the individual gesture and improvisation.