Sentences with phrase «formal traditions»

In contrast to the more formal traditions of historic statuary and fountains, these public artworks engage us with their conceptual wit, eccentric forms, and imaginative transformation of everyday objects.

Exploring the legacy of minimalism and abstraction, Moffett twists formal traditions and interrogates the potential of his medium.

Ella expressed in her speech how they wanted to create a celebration of the people around them rather than a series of formal traditions creating a super laid back wedding with a focus on their guests.

Not only did Hedrick not attend the 1959 Sixteen Americans opening at the Museum of Modern Art or even go to see the exhibition, he further distanced himself from the mainstream art world by declaring that artists such as Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, and Robert Motherwell were too firmly rooted in formal traditions.

Even after Richter's turn to figuration since the early 2000s, he has maintained his characteristic use of brash colors and dynamic, theatrical compositions, now applied to a «new kind of history painting,» in the thematic and formal tradition of Max Beckmann and George Grosz.

And even these variations within the pattern differ according to whether the caller is calling in East Coast or West Coast style, Appalachian or formal tradition, or whether he or she is experienced in working with the patterns.

Bradford uses fragments of found posters, billboards, newsprint and custom - printed paper to simultaneously engage with and advance the formal traditions of abstract painting.

Bradford uses fragments of found posters, billboards, newsprint, and custom - printed paperto simultaneously engage with and advance the formal traditions of abstract painting.

At first largely unaware of the formal traditions of the medium, Hernandez developed his own style of street photography, one uniquely attuned to the desolate allure and sprawling expanses of LA.

His latest show at the Whitechapel Gallery in London is the largest ever shown outside Germany, featuring all his major series — even one of his earliest — which finds the photographer draped across furniture, mocking the formal traditions of portraiture and their staged presentations.

Representing a connection to the social world through materials, his richly layered and collaged canvases engage with the formal traditions of abstract painting.

Bradford uses fragments of found posters, billboards, newsprint and custom printed paper to simultaneously engage with and advance the formal traditions of abstract painting.