Sentences with phrase «greatest traditional artists»

The contemporary art prize is named after Turner because while today he may be considered one of Britain's greatest traditional artists, in his time his approach to landscape painting was controversial, and often reviled, yet had a lasting impact on art.

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But he's remained remarkably level - headed and creatively ambitious in the five years since the group's demise, exploring his more progressive leanings in Punch Brothers and teaming up with Michael Daves for a more traditional collection paying tribute to past bluegrass greats like Bill Monroe and fellow Newport artist Earl Scruggs.

The animation department had a breath of fresh air blown into it with newcomer artists, which led to projects like The Great Mouse Detective and Oliver & Company that harked back to the style of the traditional Disney musical.

Son of the great animator Max Fleischer, he had an artist's eye as he adapted to both traditional movie frame ratios and the expansive widescreen format that he himself helped usher in.

Located only a few kilometers from our surf camp, the picturesque Comillas enchants visitors with a rustic harbour, a lively city centre, great music venues with traditional Spanish artists and red cobbled streets leading to Antoni Gaudí's stunning Villa Quijano.

That achievement in the arts, as in any field of endeavor, demands struggle and sacrifice, no one would deny; that this has certainly been true after the middle of the 19th century, when the traditional institutions of artistic support and patronage no longer fulfilled their customary obligations, is undeniable: one has only to think of Delacroix, Courbet, Degas, van Gogh and Toulouse - Lautrec as examples of great artists who gave up the distractions and obligations of family life, at least in part, so that they could pursue their artistic careers more singlemindedly.

Yet this is not an exclusive element; there is a long line of artists, including Gianni Ruffi, Roberto Barni, Silvio Pasotti, Umberto Bignardi, and Claudio Cintoli, who take on reality as a toy, as a great pool of imagery from which to draw material with disenchantment and frivolity, questioning the traditional linguistic role models with a renewed spirit of «let me have fun» à la Aldo Palazzeschi.

Foremost is the museum's founder, Solomon R. Guggenheim (1861 — 1949), who with support from his trusted advisor, the German - born artist Hilla Rebay (1890 — 1967), set aside a more traditional collecting focus to become a great champion of nonobjective art — a strand of abstraction with spiritual aims and epitomized by the work of Vasily Kandinsky.

«Concurrently, the city itself is being reshaped by a voracious real estate market that poses particular challenges to local artists... Against this backdrop, Greater New York departs from the show's traditional focus on youth, instead examining points of connection and tension between our desire for the new and nostalgia for that which it displaces.»

By borrowing from the traditional iconography of 18th century Japanese painting and combining it with the style of the great historical frescoes, the artist delivers a contemporary version of the Eight Immortals of the Taoist religion.

Inspired by the hand scrolls and painted screens of early 17th Century Japanese artist Tawaraya Sōtatsu, who combined the traditional themes of the indigenous school of Japanese narrative scroll painting with the bold, decorative designs of the great screen painters of the Azuchi - Momoyama period.

The exhibition brings together more than 100 works created by more than 20 artists from France, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Great Britain and the United States from the «20s to the «50s, rebalancing the traditional views about Surrealist sculpture by placing equal emphasis on organic abstraction which originated in the whimsical reliefs of Jean Arp, and the of found - object assemblage, which originated in the Assisted Readymades of Marcel Duchamp and became a surrealist passion.

The quality of the material, as in the processing of the fibers within the paper pulp, carries a certain hierarchical significance accompanied by traditional methods of working, which are commonly understood by artists trained in one or more of the great classical traditions in Asia.

Walking through this vast behemoth of an exhibition you're reminded that the great majority of British artists aren't working in an idiom that is either traditional or cutting edge — as people like to think — but at an infinite number of points in between.

In a group of paintings by Tong Hongsheng, the artist applies the techniques of Vermeer — universally acclaimed as one of the greatest painters in Western art history — to traditional Tibetan Buddhist subjects, an intriguing twist considering that whole political can of worms.

Using experimental colours and an unmistakeable playful approach to the traditional method of painting, Paricio has always set out to solve conceptual problems, to pay homage to great artistic figures of the past and to examine and question the role of the artist through his bright and dynamic canvases, layered with meaning.

The artist takes great interest in mixing media, subverting the traditional use of black charcoal, oil - paint, paint - stick, gouache, oil pastel and cardboard onto the same surface.

Rail: Gao Minglu, the great Harvard educated Chinese art critic, said that Chinese artists must look at Chinese traditional philosophical concepts, aesthetic values and techniques while developing experimental approaches to making art.

It's an inventive set up that makes for a great selection of works that tend to be contemporary artists taking on traditional mediums — so we get flowers made from bones and beautiful paintings of petrol stations at night.

Even though the art of these years saw radical departures and shifts, drawing, which is among the most traditional of media, played a crucial and consistent role in the work of a great majority of the most significant artists.

Painter Kehinde Wiley plays upon that inkling ironically in a characteristic work such as «Alexander the Great» (2005), which decks out a young black man — who happens to be a nephew of Mickalene Thomas, an artist prominently featured here — in contemporary dress and the trappings of traditional European dignitary portraiture.

Of these visionaries, foremost is the museum's founder, Solomon R. Guggenheim, who, with support from his trusted advisor, the German - born artist Hilla Rebay, set aside a more traditional collecting focus to become a great champion of nonobjective art — a strand of abstraction with spiritual aims, epitomized by the work of Vasily Kandinsky.

Martu Art from The Far Western Desert (24 September — 30 November) is an exhibition of vast and vibrant paintings by artists of the Martu people who are the traditional owners and custodians of the Great Sandy, Little Sandy and Gibson Deserts in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.