Working in a variety of media, these artists maintain the sparse aesthetic, abstraction, and re-examination of
the hierarchies of traditional art materials and processes that defined historical Minimalism.
Working in a variety of media, these artists share a notably sparse aesthetic and abstract vocabulary, playfully challenge
the hierarchies of traditional art materials and processes, and deftly marry formalism with the personal and political.
orking in a variety of media, these artists share a notably sparse aesthetic and abstract vocabulary, playfully challenge
the hierarchies of traditional art materials and processes, and deftly marry formalism with the personal and political.
Not exact matches
«It is time to turn the
traditional hierarchy, Ken Robinson discussed, on its head and develop a generation
of true thinkers and problem solvers through prominent
art education for all,» writes Richard Wells (@EduWells).
The Barnes collection is displayed in ensembles that integrate
art and objects from across cultures and time periods, overturning
traditional hierarchies and revealing universal elements
of human expression.
«do it» was perceived as a sigh
of relief from the
traditional hierarchy produced between active artist / passive audience, which was still the most common way
of experiencing
art in the 1990s.
The birth
of Cubism and many writings
of intellectuals, and critics, such as Clement Greenberg, emphasized the move towards a non-objective
art, while the figure
art, and
art that relied on realism, on the other end
of this
hierarchy, was in return considered to be less important,
traditional, and even to represent the enemy politics.
His refusal to propagate
traditional art historical
hierarchies exposes new, fantastical imagery that teeters on the peripheries
of reality and deconstructs those myths still clinging to the practice
of painting.
According to the open call, the purpose is to «encourage rigor and depth
of concept, context and creativity over labels, hype and
hierarchies» and the organizers are open to all media and performance - based
art in addition to more
traditional work.
As reported by Robin Pogrebin in a recent New York Times article, the Museum
of Modern
Art is planning a move that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago: reinstalling its permanent collection outside
of the museum's
traditional hierarchy, which placed painting and sculpture at the top
of the pyramid, with drawing, prints, photographs, and illustrated books playing supporting roles, and film, performance, digital media, architecture, and design as outliers
of varying importance.
With the rise
of MFA programs and the accompanying professionalization
of the
arts, Black Mountain's fabled atmosphere
of collaboration, experimentation for experimentation's sake and disregard for
traditional teacher / student
hierarchies — all set in the dreamy outdoor setting
of a North Carolina mountain town — beckons to us from the grainy black - and - white photos in these books, offering a tantalizing possibility that a different
art world is possible.
While Van den Dorpel speaks through the specialized language
of computer programming and perhaps abstrusely anthropomorphizes variably folk or «
traditional» approaches to fine
art, his work addresses more universal concerns related to ethics
of economic austerity as well as those
of inclusion, alienation, and social
hierarchies.
As increasing numbers
of artists seek out
traditional techniques in
art and compete for prizes, the question
of hierarchy may be worth visiting, if only to do this...
Landscape Portraits continues Oppenheim's investigation
of the relationship between image, process and material, while also engaging the
traditional art historical categories and
hierarchies of landscape and portraiture.
The permanent collection
of the PAMM is installed thematically within two rooms on the first floor and four rooms on the second and is organized around the historical criteria
of genres within Western painting and the
traditional hierarchy of genres that developed out
of the Renaissance period and was promoted within European
art academies up through the 19th century.