Sentences with phrase «grand historical tradition»
Benefits Supervisor Resting is regarded as Freud's ultimate tour de force, a life - size masterwork in the grand historical tradition of the female nude, painted obsessively with intense scrutiny and abiding truth.
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By inserting contemporary men into grand, gilt - framed traditions, Wiley emphasizes a dichotomy between historical systems of power and elite status.
[24] In 1978 he worked on the monumental historical ensemble Fifty Days at Iliam, a ten - part cycle inspired by Homer's Iliad; since then Twombly continued to draw on literature and myth, deploying cryptic pictorial metaphors that situate individual experience within the grand narratives of Western tradition, as in the Gaeta canvases and the monumental Four Seasons concluded in 1994.
Aho's art historical references derive from the modern as well as from grand tradition.