Sentences with phrase «in art historical tradition»

Louisiana Art & Science Museum Replacing the canvas with the computer screen, John F. Simon, Jr. uses computer technology to create dynamic visual experiences rooted in art historical tradition.

An accomplished figurative painter, Felice «strives, through her portraits of women, to provide a counterpoint to the passive representations found in art historical tradition.

The catalog contains a foreword by Dean Anthony Vidler that places Slutzky's paintings in dialogue with his seminal essay, Transparency: Literal and Phenonmenal, (written with Colin Rowe in 1955); an interview with Slutzky by Emmanuel J. Petit that discusses the painter's critical strategies of artistic production; an essay by Robert C. Morgan that examines Slutzky's conceptual position in the art historical tradition of Leon Battista Alberti and Josef Albers; and an essay by Robert Slutzky with Joan Ockman on metaphor in his work.

While marble or bronze sculptures have held a more elevated place in art historical tradition, wooden sculptures, because of its poverty of materials, tend to be associated more with its devotional function and the communities it serves and from which it stems.

In 1949, just as the Abstract Expressionist movement was establishing itself as the up - and - coming force in New York, Pepi went to Rome for two years to study at the American Academy and immerse himself in the art historical tradition to which he pointedly related his painting, giving rise to later critical accounts of his work as «academic» at heart.

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UCSB's Art, Design & Architecture Museum (AD&A) and the Santa Barbara Historical Museum will showcase «Sacred Art in the Age of Contact: Chumash and Latin American Traditions in Santa Barbara.»

Fairmont Sanur Beach Bali is a world - class all - suite - and - villa resort set amidst four hectares of lush tropical gardens.Only 25 minutes from the Ngurah Rai International Airport, the property is located along 200m of golden beach in the Sanur district in southeast Bali.Once a fishing village, Sanur is today full of historical charm and a hub for Balinese art, culture and tradition well away from the hustle and bustle of the rest of the island.

Other series by Zeng have combined art - historical traditions, often resulting in a kind of abstraction that marries Western and non-Western styles.

Part homage to a civil rights hero, part critique of the traditions of art history, this large - scale painting powerfully reminds us of the exclusion of African American culture and history in the wider art historical canon.»

A pioneer in painting and former professor at Bard College, Murray is known for distinctively shaped canvases that break with art - historical tradition and blur the lines between painting and sculpture.

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.

The selection also illustrates some of the art - historical traditions in L.A. such as 1960s Pop art, the Conceptual art of the 1970s, Minimalism with its Finish Fetish, the Light and Space movement, the great and important post-conceptual movements, and not least all the artists with a social and political engagement.

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.

As the title suggests, Silva works within the long art historical tradition of setting up one's canvas outside and making work based on and inspired by nature — except for Silva, there's a twist: he does it in 3 - D, using his laptop as the canvas on which to create images and animations in response to the environment.

Drawing upon art historical sources and Eastern and Western decorative traditions, Fred Tomaselli's works explode in mesmerizing patterns that appear to grow organically across his compositions.

As in much of Friedman's practice, which culls from art historical tradition with an intent to subvert, the work combines an investigation of low - brow materials — in this case, baking tins — with massive scale and the permanence of steel.

Liz Nielsen's work joins and adds to the historical tradition of the photogram — one of the medium's earliest processes - but one which has enjoyed a renaissance in the worlds of contemporary art and color photography.

Even as his work historically emerges from these traditions — organizing simple structures, the use of objects as integers in a larger series, a simple declarative use of materials — his work also foregrounds aspects of such works that have become lost in the art historical context.

Since then, his work has been included in several historical shows, including A Shared Tradition: Art by Four African Americans at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (1996) and Abstract Expressionism: Further Evidence at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery (2009).

One of Bearden's «hierographic paintings,» it is more analytical — and less concerned with religious faith than with trying to work through the European art - historical tradition while homing in on a distinctly modern style.

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.

In direct contrast to the historical traditions of these 1960s art movements, which leaned towards the isolated and objective, these three artists create a dialogue through their work that brings memory, nostalgia, and landscape to the forefront of their practice.»

Nara integrates elements of his Western education with historical traditions in Japanese art, crafting a distinct aesthetic and process.

Rooted in the long tradition of twentieth - century art, the artwork is a recycling and re-hanging of Provincetown's historical street banners.

Using canonical and amateur parochial artworks as source material, Jason Brooks crops and reproduces existing paintings in order to develop a nonlinear art - historical tradition rooted in form and color, rather than chronology.

This new series has roots in local and international cultural traditions, while also being informed by art historical characters.

The work is rooted in a multi-disciplinary approach that is as faceted in the mediums employed as in the array of art historical, literary and folk tradition references.

A pioneer in painting, Murray's distinctively shaped canvases break with the art - historical tradition of illusionistic space in two - dimensions.

With a particular focus on an examination of subculture communities, Opie's photographs unite current day politics and societal structures with a classical art aesthetic, culminating in a body of work that expands upon the tradition of documentary photography as well as the greater art historical canon.

In this presentation Brice expands her recent use of a near single colour palette to include dynamic reds and deep greens to create large - scale paintings which address the art - historical tradition of the female nude.

NDBut I feel when I look at your paintings that I'm participating in some kind of art - historical tradition.

Instead of depicting nature as a sublime force in the manner of Caspar David Friedrich or J.M.W. Turner, the Japanese artist Yutaka Sone addresses the natural world through sculptures, paintings, and drawings that depart from art - historical tradition by using tricks of scale and perspective to render the most familiar aspects of the environment uncanny, and strangely intimate.

Rooted in the traditions of historical Japanese art, teamLab operates from a distinct sense of spatial recognition that they call Ultrasubjective Space.

His sculpture Petit Monument (2010) alludes to the art historical tradition of equestrian sculpture and originated as a design for a monument in honor of Willem of Orange and Marnix of Saint Aldegonde, two sixteenth - century political figures of great importance for Antwerp and the Netherlands in times of humanism and religious wars.

Stettheimer spent a significant period of her early life in Europe, and incorporated European art historical traditions into her early work before abandoning them upon her return to New York.

Experimenting with cyanotype and platinum palladium prints made on traditional gold and platinum leaf, her work reflects the interplay between art historical traditions and the more modern tradition of photography, firmly anchoring Lucretia in both realms.

Known for her explicit male nudes that quote and subvert the art historical tradition of male gaze onto female body, in her portraits feature artists, musicians and writers of both genders, dressed and naked, representing a pantheon of significant cultural figures.

The visual language of sport hunting over the course of history informs much of the work; incongruities exist within existing art historical traditions, and too, manifest in the reconfiguring of forms and tradition that plays a role in Crombach's practice.

Nicholas Crombach in his solo exhibition «Behind Elegantly Carved Wooden Doors» has mined art historical tradition, assembling a body of work rich in citation.

Shonibare matches the staggering, opulent beauty of his art with erudition and wit: exploring identity and authenticity, he taps art historical tradition and intellectual history in sly, provocative works that examine class, race, gender, and colonialism.

Morton made art in a wide variety of mediums, including drawing and painting, but her sculptures that lay flat on the ground are the most memorable, a kind of an antiphallic statement that seemed to rebel against art - historical tradition, and sculpture's monumentality in particular.

A Minimalist Tradition: Coming from an art historical background, Gonzalez - Torres was impacted by works like those in our collection by Minimalist artists Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, and Brice Marden.

Certain individuals approached the theme from an art historical perspective, focusing on the perception and tradition of still life, landscape, and pastoral imagery, as can be seen in the works of David Klamen and Allison Schulnik.

one art is a tree as assisted ready - made, building on the art historical tradition of landscape and grappling with our desire to believe in an untamed nature.

It culminates in the 1960s, with avant - garde works forged out of the traditions of weaving and craft (disciplines that had historically welcomed women), as well as new types of unorthodox objects whose very nature challenged art historical conventions and boundaries.

By engaging with the traditions of painterly practice but normalising the almost exclusive presentation of black people within her work, Yiadom - Boakye's formal investigations of composition, structure and palette also raise questions of identity, visibility and representation, pointing to the dearth of such depictions in the Western art - historical canon.

First, from an art - historical perspective, the equation between art and reality conjures up the tradition of the readymade initiated by Marcel Duchamp and transformed by postwar artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, who in 1959 famously declared: «Painting relates to