Jason S. Yi: A Fragile Permanence draws on phenomenology, contemporary installation, and the art
historical tradition of landscape painting.
Not exact matches
For YSP he will make new
painting and sculpture — resolutely contemporary works that will integrate an inclination towards geometry with the romantic sincerity
of landscape painting in the
historical tradition.
According to the gallery, «The Girl» encapsulates Op de Beeck's uncanny ability to create visual fictions
of wonder, silence and introspection, while referencing art
historical traditions of the panorama,
landscape painting and German - Romantic notions
of melancholy and the sublime.
This work can be interpreted in the simplest, most direct manner — as a stereotyped image
of China's food culture and
painting traditions, but at the same time, its multiple references to various Chinese social and
historical backgrounds make interpretation much more difficult: the use
of objects to express morality in Chinese
landscaping, satirical poetry mocking ostentatious refinement, and the imitation
of handwritten menus to capture a scene
of civil life... Viewers unfamiliar with the specific context can easily find themselves lost in the smokescreen
of mysterious Oriental poetic calligraphy and bonsai art.
In the 1980s, a decade when artists commonly appropriated styles or imagery from earlier art
historical periods, Mark Innerst became known for beautifully crafted natural and urban
landscape paintings that gave new life to the American
tradition of the romantic sublime.
Their current work explores the relationship between contemporary art making practices and the
historical tradition of romantic
landscape painting.
In response, we constructed and photographed sets illustrating this contradiction, taking inspiration from art
historical traditions of 19th century sublime
landscape painting and pop culture apocalyptic film.
The work formally draws from the
historical references
of the
landscape painting tradition and its accepted sublime beauty, but it is further interested in contemporary societies underlying ecological and political conflicts that uniquely frame the memory
of the current
landscape.
The Norwich School remains an important
historical element in the larger
tradition of English
landscape painting.