Sentences with phrase «great painting tradition»

Jane Wilson is a worthy heir to two great painting traditions: Romantic landscape and abstract Color Field.

Not exact matches

Although the Church has preserved a tradition as a patron of the arts for more than a millennium, and the great mediaeval cathedrals in particular have portrayed Christianity through their paintings, sculptures, and perhaps especially their windows, Catholic teachers are now refocusing on literary, cultural and artistic beauty as a conscious resource for the transmission of the faith.

A baby in kindergarten amongst the great artworks painted in the plein air tradition in the artist mecca of Carmel California.

Using a condensed and dramatic form mixing elements of comic book art, Californian underground, and murals with the great European tradition, the large scale religious implementations of the Baroque in particular, Danø works range from the traditional painting to reliefs and singular objects.

Many now see Wool as the heir to Andy Warhol, the next great link in an American tradition of painting that began in the postwar years of abstract expressionism and pop art.

Fusing the traditions of European painting with the distinct character of American abstraction, Scully's great achievement is the reinvigoration of abstract painting with the metaphorical, the philosophical, and the sublime combined with the earthy tangibility of paint.

It is Nisenbaum's awareness of and capacity to synthesise two culturally distinct traditions of painting while raising their stakes in novel ways (not to mention that she is also a great colourist) that makes her someone worthy of special attention.

Evoking the tradition of many of the great landscape painters of the past, including Monet, van Gogh and the 19th century master J. M. W. Turner, Blueberry demonstrates Mitchell's skill at elevating into oil paint the feelings that the landscape evoked in her.

In 1971 Reed settled in New York where he studied painting at the New York Studio School and familiarised himself with the great tradition of Abstract Expressionism on the one hand, and the minimalist and post-minimalist movements on the other.

Jewish Museum Members are invited to an early Members - only viewing of Chaim Soutine: Flesh, featuring Soutine's remarkable paintings depicting hanging fowl, beef carcasses, and rayfish, imbued with the unique visual conceptions and painterly energy that the artist brought to the tradition of still - life, considered among his greatest artistic achievements.

His work represented the maturation of the great American landscape tradition, and his painting of the Valley of the Yosemite in California has been called his crowning achievement.

Portraiture is the great abiding tradition of painting.

Giorgio Morandi, Still Life (Natura morta), 1956 Oil on canvas; 9 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches September 16 — December 14, 2008 This is a comprehensive survey — the first in this country — of the career of Giorgio Morandi, one of the greatest 20th - century masters of still - life and landscape painting in the tradition of Chardin and Cézanne.

Robert Motherwell painted great open fields of colors, composited with lines and shapes and Barnett Newman tried to reflect Jewish history and tradition trough the language of pure colors.

Luc Tuymans is one of today's most widely admired painters, a continuation of the great tradition of Northern European painting and an enduring influence on younger and emerging artists.

You decide upon the spot that you will join the great tradition of plein - air painters, following in the revolutionary footsteps of John Constable, who first left his studio to approach a landscape painting in glorious nature herself.

Widely regarded as the last great pure painter of the Western painting tradition, Willem de Kooning towered over the late 20th century as only Pablo Picasso dominated its first half.

Drawing on the canon of art history, and long tradition of landscape painting, Eisberg pays homage to the work of another great German artist, Caspar David Friedrich's The Sea of Ice.

I write at such length and so warmly because Hoyland is a terrific artist and people don't seem to know what's authentic and what isn't right now or the difference between what's academic and what adds an authentic inch or two to a great tradition, as the American painter Morris Louis did with his translucent painted veils and neurasthenic draft of speed and movement, and as Hoyland's work, very differently, does now — only he goes much further.

We were intrigued by Summer Wheat's process and use of material, pushing the boundaries of acrylic paint to create works that are compelling and visceral, and are thrilled that the award goes directly to the artist in Artadia's great tradition.»

Writing in the catalogue of the exhibition, Enrique Juncosa, Director of IMMA and curator of the exhibition, describes how Winters, while participating in the aesthetic debates of his time, is also «heir to a tradition that includes some of the greatest names in abstraction — Kandinsky, Jackson Pollock and Cy Twombly — all of whom had a profound impact on 20th - century painting... Winters is without doubt, one of the leading painters maintaining the currency of abstraction after Minimalism.

National Gallery Director Dr Gabriele Finaldi, says «George Shaw's paintings tap into popular British culture and the tradition of the great masters.

This major traveling exhibition reveals the exceptional variety of Native artistic production, ranging from the ancient ivories and ingenious modern masks of the Arctic to the dramatic sculptural arts of the Pacific Northwest, the millennia - long tradition of abstract art in the Southwest, the refined basketry of California and the Great Basin, the famous beaded and painted works of the Plains, and the luminous styles of the Eastern Woodlands, including the Great Lakes.

The National Watercolor Society (NWS), originally founded as the California Watercolor Society in 1920, invites visitors to follow in the tradition of many great California painters and paint outdoors (en plein air) at the water pavilion created by CURRENT artist Rirkrit Tiravanija.

«Of course I found myself in constant defense of the great tradition [of painting], but not against those who chose not to paint,» Fischl recalls.

The principal heirs to Regionalism's tradition of naturalist realism included the great illustrator Norman Rockwell (1894 - 78), whose nostalgic but hugely popular magazine illustrations of the American family made him a household name in the 1950s, and Andrew Wyeth (1917 - 2009), whose tempera masterpiece Christina's World (1948, Museum of Modern Art) competes with Wood's American Gothic for the title of America's favourite painting.

Or, «What would a mural or public painting tradition in the United States look like in the aftermath of some of the great muralists?

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.

In his new series, Kauper takes on one of the greatest artistic traditions, the painting of the female nude.

The natura morta, or still life, assumed a great importance in the Italian painting tradition in the twentieth century.

But she is wrestling not so much with the long dead 19th - century painter Frederic Edwin Church, who did a great deal to shape a certain vaunted tradition of American landscape painting, as with the ideologies that Church championed.

Carrying on the Abstract Expressionist tradition, James Walsh exploits great variations of paint thickness, creating surfaces that are both rich and subtle.

She is credited with exhibiting the first show of abstract painting in the Arab world, in Beirut in 1947, though her greatest triumphs in the context of this show seem to be in her sculptural work and representational painting, with her charismatic self - portrait deftly breaching what the catalogue refers to as the traditions of «non-representational Middle Eastern art.»

The exhibition presents artwork and objects from the permanent collection presented by theme including past and present portraiture, great traditions in small paintings, post-war sculpture, the eccentric object and vintage posters of the 1930's and 40's.

I came to see the difference: while Rothko has his own silence, steeped in the transcendental sides of both emotional tragedy and spiritual ecstasy in the tradition of romanticism — I always felt as though I'm the monk standing in the great Caspar David Friedrich painting The Monk by The Sea.

Bosch's paintings with their rough surfaces, so called impasto painting, differed from the tradition of the great Netherlandish painters of the end of the 15th, and beginning of the 16th centuries, who wished to hide the work done and so suggest their paintings as more nearly divine creations.

«We were intrigued by Summer Wheat's process and use of material, pushing the boundaries of acrylic paint to create works that are compelling and visceral, and are thrilled that the Award goes directly to the artist in Artadia's great tradition,» according to joint statement by Alteever and Hunt in the award announcement.

Despite such rough, utterly profane surfaces, it is a spiritual tradition of abstraction that Martin's work draws from: Native American folklore, religious mysticism, anthroposophist symbolism, the landscape painting of North American romanticism — and the great melting pot of New York City itself, where Martin has lived since 1975.

Fergus Hare can without a doubt be seen in a tradition of Great British landscape painting, bringing the genre into the 21st century while referencing and drawing inspiration from the past and future.

While influenced by the philosophy of Buddhism and the practice of psychotherapy, her paintings emerge from a foundation in the great tradition of Western modernism and post-modernism and from her decades long study of classical South Asian and Tibetan art.

The artist skilfully fuses great traditions of painting and current practices of graffiti in her local surroundings.

She pushes the boundaries between abstraction and representation, drawing on imagery as wide - ranging as the mundane found - in - suburbia, manmade bodies of water, and sci - fi imagery, all the while referencing the great American tradition of Color Field Painting, creating a fresh language and all her own.

His work is known by its great artistic freedom as he uses unquestionable technical skills as well as a thorough carefulness while acting out a respectful disrespect for the various stylistic traditions and conventions of traditional painting.

Landscape painting has been called «China's greatest contribution to the art of the world», [36] and owes its special character to the Taoist (Daoist) tradition in Chinese culture.

Inspired by early American figurative painting, Mequitta Ahuja's huge portraits critique and engage the tradition of painting and the greater art historical canon.

Camille Corot (1796 — 1875) is best known as the great master of landscape painting who bridged the French neoclassical tradition with the impressionist movement of the 1870s.

These decisions signaled Ingres's allegiance to both the prevailing public style of his day and the great tradition of classical Renaissance painting in general.

As a young art school graduate, Verdier left France for China in 1985 to study the art of spontaneous painting and other Eastern traditions with some of the last great Chinese painters who survived the Cultural Revolution.

Jurney's work is firmly rooted in the great landscape tradition, stretching from Dutch 17th century painting through the Barbizon and Hudson River Schools, to late 19th and early 20th century French and American impressionism.

And while in fact Murray's work demolished Greenbergian tenets, at the same time her painterly ambition both embraced and reinvigorated the great tradition of New York School painting of which his philosophy were an important component.