Sentences with phrase «great modernist tradition»

In parallel with this great modernist tradition is also an explicit Brazilian conceptual art that was less dogmatic and structuralist than their counterparts in Europe and North America, but more open, more poetic, more politically engaged, as we can see in the works of Cildo Meireles and Vik Muniz.

Parallel to this great modernist tradition there is also an explicitly Brazilian conceptual art that was less dogmatic and structuralist than its counterparts in Europe and North America, but more open, more poetic and more politically engaged, as we can see in the works of Cildo Meireles.

Not exact matches

Flat, blank facades on buildings conceived as commodities — or just oddities — rather than works of civic art; flat modernist pictorial abstractions; the flattening of cultural history into pseudo-history packaged as what Henry dismissed as «applied sociology» — all spoke to him of something far more ominous, the abasement of man and the crude negation of his proper relationship to nature as embodied in the great tradition.

Scully is a great artist because, constructing a great variety of two and three - dimensional works from a narrowly restricted choice of forms and media, he shows, in opposition to almost all other contemporary painters and sculptors and, also, to most art writers, that there is life, still, in this now seemingly distant modernist tradition.

Abstract Expressionism owed a great deal to the European Modernist tradition.

In the same tradition of great painters who settled in the Hamptons during the winter months to work without interruption and take advantage of the large spaces and one of the most beautiful lights of the Northeast (Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell are just a few who come to mind), Kawai and her husband, photographer Justin Waldron, set camp in a modernist - style home and adjacent studio in East Hampton.

Whether it is his reinterpretation of scroll painting, his travels in Tibet or his response to the great modernist icon of the Nanjing River Bridge, the works are always looking to preserve, update and revolutionise elements of different traditions at the same time.

Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, Winslow Homer, Richard Diebenkorn, Stuart Davis and Clifford Still have become masters in their art, and are well - known all over the world, as great American painters of the modernist tradition.

Sarah Sze, who represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 2013 and who draws from the great modernist - magpie tradition of recycling that stretches from Kurt Schwitters through Robert Rauschenberg and Isa Genzken, decided to use the standard - size porcelain tiles that cover the walls throughout the new stations, rather than mosaic.

What instantly appeals to me about Barber Osgerby's work is that, just as great designers like Dieter Rams, Achille Castiglione and Vico Magistretti followed this same modernist «tradition», each interpreting it to their very personal aesthetic, similarly the design duo are doing the same in our 21st Century.

The New York — based textile artist uses unusual materials including old mixtapes from his friends, and yet follows in the tradition of the great modernist...